Which are the sharpest contrasty LTM Lenses?

[doubs43]

Walker: This lens is found in Kiev/Contax mount online. I have not seen it in LTM.

Raid, you are, I believe, correct. I don't recall ever seeing a Helios-103 in LTM. I have one or more (I'll have to count) and all are in the Kiev mount.

Walker

 

[outfitter]

I believe too that 1950 is a year when the factory finished the zeiss glass stock. I read that jupiter 3 from 1950 have Zeiss glasses and the difference in sharpness is seenable wide open till f4. I read it on the web due to a french photog who made a test of russian lenses online that is quite interesting because there are two leitz lenses on the bench. Here is the page, on the left side there is a traduction in the tongue of Shakespeare
http://www.collection-appareils.com/avoscrayons/html/50mm.php

Most experts (e.g. Minoru Sasaki in his monograph "Contax to Kiev" agree that early Soviet lenses with numbers inscribed inside the mounts - similar to marks used at the Zeiss factory - indicate that they are real Zeiss lens barrels which were removed from Jena as finished or semi finished components. Most agree however that no one can tell whether the glass elements are Zeiss or Russian. Any notion that there are Russian branded original Zeiss lenses may be wishful thinking. Another fact to ponder is that many (if not most) Contax lenses in LTM were made up from parts after the war and are not Zeiss fctory made.

Michael

Michael