Jupiter 8, Russian translation

chenick

chenick

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Hi all,

My 1964 chrome Jupiter 8 just arrived from the Ukraine, complete with hood, case, cap and receipt of some kind. Can't wait to try it! As expected it needed a bit of a clean, but it doesn't yet need a relube. Smells like it was relubed with axle grease!

How is it for flare?
What hood can I use? (the plastic push-on hood that came with it is a bit loose and interferes with easy aperture selection.

Can anyone translate the attached for me (or just say what it is?)

Thanks!!
Nick

Doh! Can't attach images.... I'll try and link

http://static.flickr.com/69/167925718_57dc486197_o.jpg
 
PASPORT (Passport)

FOTOOBJEKTIV "IOUPITER-8" (Fotoobjective Jupiter-8)
SOOTVETSTVOUET TECHNICESKIM OUSLOVIIAM (? Soviet Technical Control ?)

RABOTCHII OTREZOK

LABORANT (? Worker)
(PODPISI) (Signature)

OTK (?)
(PODPISII) (Signature)

Apparently it says that the lens passport info is from the 10th march 1972.
 
I believe many of the "passports" gave the effective focal length of the lens so it could be matched to the body so the RF worked correctly. Certainly on a couple of J3's I once had, the focal length was written in here.

Kim
 
As for hoods, check out the ebay seller heavystar (or heavy2stars). He sells these great 40.5mm vented metal hoods that work great on most FSU lenses.
 
I like the hoods from "americaneagle camera". I never had a problem with flair from the black J-8 I have.
 
40.5mm used to be very common. There is stuff around from Zeiss and Voigtlander as well as third party. A number of manufacturers made 42mm push-on. I have a Hoya "vented " that is all-metal and fits very nicely. It obscures less of the viewfinder on a FED-2 but it is kosher for wide angle and thus does not actually shade as well as the Russian plastic job. The latter is about as functional as you can get, even if it is crude.
I don't know if Leitz made a 42mm equivalent of the FISON, but if they did it would have to be the only way to fly.
 
Complete translation:

Passport
Jupiter-8 photographic lens with No. ..... is conforming to technical specifications.
Working distance..........millimeters
Laboratory assistant..........(signature)
OTK (Department of Quality Checking) .........(signature)
 
"Рабочий Отрезок"= lens working distance. The passports often carried this as an indication that the lens has the proper working distance for proper mating (and focusing) with the camera. Often the blank line after Рабочий Отрезок has "28,8 mm" written on it, indicating that it would focus right on a properly adjusted camera with a 28,8mm lens working distance. It should work right on the Leica and every other FED or Zorki which has this proper working distance. But since your passport doesn't carry this figure, the lens it came with probably didn't make it to standard :) And you're lucky that this passport bears a different number from your lens' SN- there's a chance that your J-8 has the right register! :D

Jay

edit- the passport was printed in the 1970s (see "197_ g"). That was long after
your lens was made. Perhaps at that time, the factories were probably confident enough that their lenses conformed and the actual working distance is no longer relevant data.
 
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