Jupiter 8 question

[Fawley]

I looked at a couple of Zorki's sporting Jupiter 8 lenses, for sale in a used camera store. The lenses were clearly of different vintages, one being a painted black, the other plain aluminum. I noticed that on both lenses, there were no click stops on the aperture ring. It moved smoothly from wide open to stopped right down, just like a focusing ring. Is this normal for these lenses? I ask because I have been thinking about getting a Jupiter, as they are a low cost lense and with a relatively good reputation.

 

[Spleenrippa]

Neither of my J8s have click-stops

 

[Fawley]

Thanks for the answer. Do you find this a problem? I've never used a lens like that before. I like to preset F stop and then just click up or down if I need to.

 

[Sonnar Brian]

I've never had a problem for lack of click stops.

The F-Stop scale on the Jupiter-3 and Jupiter-8 is not "linear", the distance between F-Stops gets smaller as you close down. It would be difficult to stop the lens down without looking at it.

The Industar-61L/D has click stops.

 

[rbiemer]

The Jupiter 8 for the Kiev cameras does have click stops but, as said above, the screw mount J-8 does not.
I use mine as my main 50--on a couple of Bessas and FED 4 & 5 cameras--and have not found the absence of click stops a problem. In fact on the Bessas it means I can set the aperture in between the marked numbers should I want/need to.
Rob

 

[mikeong]

I never had problems with my J8 with regards to the click stops. You can preset the aperture and shoot, as mentioned above you have to look at the lens when changing the aperture. You can have 1/2, quarter stops using this lens.