Igor.Burshteyn
Well-known
I have silver J8 with serial number 0162083. Looks strange to me - no trace of coating (and it does flare badly), but apperture ring has click stops. Any idea what year this one come from?
peterc
Heretic
Which mount is the lens?
Igor.Burshteyn
Well-known
sorry for omission - kiev/contax rf mount
peterc
Heretic
Shortly after I got my Kiev I read something about the odd serial numbers on some Jupiter 8 lenses (early ones I believe) but I can't seem to find the reference again. I'll keep looking.
Peter
Peter
Stu W
Well-known
Igor, as far as I know J8's didn't have click stops. Strange. Stu
Kim Coxon
Moderator
Hi,
A look on the Communist Cameras site came up with this quote
This is a 50mm F2.0 standard lens with apertures to 22. It focuses from 0.9 meters. This lens does not have a focusing mount built in. It is the most common lens found on Kiev range finder cameras. This lens is for the internal contax mount. There is also a Jupiter-8M which is modified internally but except for the marking and click stops, looks identical .
Kim
A look on the Communist Cameras site came up with this quote
This is a 50mm F2.0 standard lens with apertures to 22. It focuses from 0.9 meters. This lens does not have a focusing mount built in. It is the most common lens found on Kiev range finder cameras. This lens is for the internal contax mount. There is also a Jupiter-8M which is modified internally but except for the marking and click stops, looks identical .
Kim
FrankS
Registered User
I have a silver (with black nose) J-8m in Kiev mount with aperture click stops, serial number begins with 58....
But you are correct, yours has a weird serial number!
But you are correct, yours has a weird serial number!
Igor.Burshteyn
Well-known
Mine is silver black nose too, but it has J8 (not J8M) designation on it in Cyrillic.
Mike Kovacs
Contax Connaisseur
Frankenlens?
darkkavenger
Massimiliano Mortillaro
maybe it's an early J8 ? as far as I know, all J8 were coated, maybe it's a frankensteinization of a KMZ ZK (sonnar copy) lens ? It might be possible that the lens has been assembled from other lens parts, but as far as I know, there are no click stops on J8's before the J8M.
//max
//max
Igor.Burshteyn
Well-known
) LOL - "frankenlens" makes sense to me. I already have kiev4a with rewind crank and hot shoe installed from god-knows-what-camera. Works great - build quiality of early kiev 4 and ergonomics of late 4am. Frankly speaking J8 looks more like lens from some pre-serial batch.
Mike Kovacs
Contax Connaisseur
Its the click stops that just don't seem right on an ZK or Jupiter-8 (not 8M) lens. I recall reading somewhere that the 0 series were some sort of early production lenses.
Hamster
Established
I think these J-8 were mounted on all sorts of optical equipment, I came across one mounted on a fixed barrel with M42 mount that is attached to some sort of IR-scope as an eyepiece! So I would not be suprised if your lens left the factory that way, given that they would probably cannabalise overun parts from other production lines.
I think they even have one mounted on collapseable M39 mount. See link:
http://www.sy916.net/sy916/showarticle.php?id=1553
I think they even have one mounted on collapseable M39 mount. See link:
http://www.sy916.net/sy916/showarticle.php?id=1553