industar 61 or jupiter 8 for my bessa r?

cannot even download images from the disk to the main laptop. it is crippled up. aieeeeee!

i did get to look at 'em on the big laptop's screen. the walgreens housebrand 200 color cannot handle a full range of tones. in several shots exposed for an object, the sky - and it was overcast, not sunny - is washed out. i accidentally exposed the first six shots at asa 400 on the r's meter instead of asa 200. these look richer ...
 
couldn't stand the wait after seeing how prices were rising on canon normals, elmars, 'rons and 'its on e-bay. ordered a j-8 from fedka; asked yuri to pick out his best excellent-grade used lens. hoping it gets here today, but more likely monday. i'll use the j-8 until i can raise the money for a cv 1.5 ...
 
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jupiter 8 arrived today from fedka. it's a dandy little lens, slick as owl grease on a teflon skillet. looks jaunty on the bessa, with a chinese-made copy of the leica vented hood screwed onto the front. this hood copy, by the way, is very good; matte-black aluminum. this one fits 40.5mm filter size. borrowed it from my minolta a5. i can hear the a5 wimpering in the camera drawer ...
 
wallace said:
Objection! I think that all owners of a Canon Serenar 50/1.8 would veto....:) Simply the best value for a fast 50.

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I own TWO Canon 50/1.8's, one Serenar and one Black. And the Canon 50/0.95, Canon 50/1.2, Canon 50/1.4...

Modern P&S optics are slow- and that is the trade-off. Most use molded aspheric optics. But the lens on my Leica Mini and Nikon Lite-Touch are quite good. Slow at F3.5.
 
I have a chrome, tabbed -56 model, first two numbers on the SN tell you the production year. I also have a black -92 model. Both are sharp from f/4 upwards. If I had to pick one or the other I'd go for the older one. It has that certain 'je ne sais quoi' which I like.
 
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