Jupiter decapitated wife.

Sanders McNew

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So, I thought I would try out a Jupiter 8
on my IIIa. I bought a nice clean one
from Alex, and today I took it on an
excursion to the Guggenheim with my
wife Melanie. After developing the roll,
I learn to my horror that it chopped off her
head in nearly every frame. This isn't just
parallax -- it happened in some photos with
her several yards/meters from the camera.

It's a 5cm lens so I would have thought the
viewfinder was accurate. My Summars don't
behave this way -- they stay inside the finder
frame for the most part. Do these Jupiter 8s
sit on the mount differently, somehow, from
their Leica counterparts? Why did it chop off
her head? She did not deserve it.

Sanders
 
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Well, the focal length should be 2 mm or so longer than a Leica lens, but that shouldn't be chopping off heads. That would take quite a few more mm in focal length...

Must have been a Monday lens, hangover day in Russia.
 
Sanders, maybe I could borrow that lens for the weekend, I could take a photo like that of my ex-wife.
 
I did salvage one frame from the roll:

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50092

I had framed it so as not to chop off the heads of
the museumgoers at the top of the frame, and to
include less of the wall at the bottom, but it worked
well enough in its unintended way.

Can the lens be adjusted somehow? I will probably
just follow MikeL's advice and take this as a sign
from the Almighty to stick with the Summar, but
curiosity wants to be quelled.

Sanders
 
I guess you could get a shorter wife.

Almost like a 'boob shot' camera. Point it at womens faces and it takes a picture of their chest.
 
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Sanders McNew said:
Can the lens be adjusted somehow? I will probably
just follow MikeL's advice and take this as a sign
from the Almighty to stick with the Summar, but
curiosity wants to be quelled.

Sanders

Send an email to Yuri at fedka.com and see if he thinks his repair service can sort it out. If anybody will know what to do, It'll be him. If it can't be saved, you'll at least be able to buy another one from a first-rate dealer. It'll probably cost almost as much to fix as to replace, though.
 
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