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This lens is interesting for me because I still make black and white photos with my film camera Kiev-4 (Russian copy of German Contax). The camera itself is very good making a surprizingly qualitive pictures, especially with small-grain film like Ilford Delta. Standard lens Jupiter 2/50 is also very good but wide angle Jupiter 12 sometimes is more usefull. The apperture scale allows you to have almost all the distances in focus, so you even don't need to focus thrue the viefinder, just set an appropriate distance (I usually set infinity, even not a medium distance). One uncommon feature: the apperture ring is combined with the front glass|ring, so if you use a filter (normally yellow), you see the figures through the filter and turn the ring together with filter. This is not common, but not bad, because the angle of ring move is quite small. For example, the difference between stops 11 and 16 and 22 is so small that I don't use intermedium "half-stops" between them. The hood is normally not needed, the front lens is sitting deep in the barrel. The pictures are very detalised even for 35 mm film scan printing at A4 format. This lens is not suitable for digital cameras as though it has an internal mechanical drive of focusing ring connected with the lever on a camera's body and very specifical mount. The prise is just funny in copmarison with some new electrical giant lens with a tiny window of "plastic glass", i.e. "optical plastic".Read full review
I have two years Leica M9. I decided I wanted to buy her extra lenses and searched the internet and of course eBay is something that could be suitable for my budget. After reading an article (in one of the blogs) on this lens immediately I got to the suggestions on eBay, and I contacted one of the sellers through eBay. Seller was very nice and was very helpful and gave me a lot of information I needed to complete the purchase in the end. its quality and Excellent lens, I would even define it as very special. Lens is small and light and very easy to make a manual focus. The colors it produces are high-quality and special as its sharpness. I highly recommend anyone who wants a high quality lens purchased it. Good quality of its construction and in its special and something very unique.
So light that you hardly feel it on your camera, and surprisingly good optical quality. I haven't shot any color film with it, but my black and white negatives seem extremely sharp. The only unorthodox thing about it is that you set the aperture by turning the ring inside the lens barrel and looking down inside it. This would be unworkable if you use a very dark filter like an infrared, but with normal yellow or orange filters it's no problem. You just have to unlearn an old habit! The Jupiter-12 must be the best lens bargain out there.
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Simply beautiful. On my digital camera, this lens renders colors as though they were shot on Fuji Velvia. The "bokeh" is gorgeous.. It's compact, light weight and well made.
It's small and sharp. I love this lens.
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A great lense. Everyone who owns a rangefinder needs a 35mm lense especially if you're doing street photography.
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As a collector of old cameras and equipment I bought the Jupiter 12 as a fine example of Russian lenses. Well fitted to my Kiev 4A, a special camera with an interesting history. The lens is good and a fine price performer. Perhaps I dislike the design of the aperture ring in the front, but that has nothing to do with ebay or the seller. Good, but there are much better lenses in the market - and much more expensive.