jupiter 8 m39--where to buy?

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SCOTFORTHLAD

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Hi to all you FSU fans,
It's a while since I posted,I still have my Fed 3,Zorki 4 and Kiev 4 in good working order,but am lacking a Jupiter 8 for the Zorki.Not having bought recently I would be very grateful if anyone could mention reliable ebay sources for such a lens.
Cheers from a windy, but so far rainfree South Wales:)

Brian.
 
I just bought a Jup-8 for my Ricoh GXR and I'm loving it! I got it locally (Australia) If you can't find an Eastern European seller you feel confident with, I recommend finding a fellow shooter in the UK who is actually selling their own one.

Hopefully someone will post details. Good luck!

~Rif
 
Hi,

FWIW, I go by the feedback rating; a lot have 100% and those are the ones I deal with usually.

The other clue I look for is those ones who sells the ones with cleaning marks cheaply. A lot mention them but hold their prices at the unmarked level as it "won't affect the photo" and so on.

But in the end it's a bit of a gamble with any seller.

Regards, David
 
Fedka's price is too high for me, and across ocean shipping doesn't help it.

I buy all my FSU gears on eBay. With careful selecting I've had 9/10 good experiences.
Buying lenses like J-8 on eBay is much safer than buying cameras bodies.

Here are two I recommend:
http://www.ebay.com/usr/dimmis420
I've bought Zorki-1, Zorki-4, Industar-22, etc. from him. He knows what he is selling and is nice to communicate with.

http://www.ebay.com/usr/hero4g
They sell CLA'd gears. They have 90 days warranty for gears they sell.

To avoid:
http://www.ebay.com/usr/petersburg_deals
http://www.ebay.com/usr/confdntart
They list a lot of gears but they are the "sell and pray the buyer wouldn't use the item" type. The gears are claimed to be CLA'd but apparently not.
 
I would not buy camera from two bad ones listed above. I did, they were DOA. But lens is different story.

Just buy from 100% ebay seller. It seems Ukranian are more careful with what they sell.
I recommend white with focus tab version. Best ergonomics. Black ones are small and good optically as well, but flimsy.
Buy it with clean inside and outside, they are not rare. Once it on your hands, most likely you would have to relube focusing helicoid, but where are plenty of instructions how to do it.
Also be prepared to possibility of having it re-shimmed. And this part is not as easy as cleaning of the helicoid, but really worth it. Properly aligned J-8 is very sharp at f2.
 
Maybe, there will be a re-issue of the J-8+, similar to the J-3+?
Cost: Not $35, but maybe $400?
 
Recommend Fedka. I've bought a lot of equipment from Yuri, including a 1968 export Jupiter-8. All of it has been excellent.
 
Slightly OT, but I noticed that some sellers have "NOS" J3 optical blocks. Has anyone used one of these to rebuild a J3 with "cleaning marks"...?

~Rif
 
I did buy a J8 from an eBay seller years ago. I believe it came from the Ukraine because it took several weeks for delivery. It came NOS (new old stock). Works as well as the one I bought from Fedka and was cheaper.
 
Thanks everyone for the good advice and sellers names,I will start the quest and see where it takes me.The daft thing is that I have had a couple of good J8's over the years but let them go to finance other 'experiments'.
Cheers,Brian.
 
The new J-3+ is Eur. 600,00 at Lomography. OK, you will have a nice book and a LTM-M adapter too.

FEDKA is OK for buying a good J-8. If you are smart you are asking Yuri to send it directly from Ukraine (where they are serviced too). Due to the new EU-Ukraine treaty, valid from 1 rst January 2016 you won't pay any import duties anymore so far cheaper then sending from NYC.
 
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