It has a very reasonable close focus ability that allowed me to shoot my style of images (flora mostly) and has a well dampened focus that feels just right and a nice focus throw allowing for precise focus. OK - so what about the freakin' lens!!? Well, the lens is very sturdily built and has a nice "heft" without being difficult too heavy. It was really a struggle to get what I wanted in frame at first, but after a few days, I figured it out for the most part and adapted to a different shooting style that accommodated this new and strange FL. My shooting preferences really lends itself to shorter/wider focal lengths. So what about the lens!!? Well, I must say I struggled with 85mm at first. Although I am not a portrait photographer, this FL gap was all I needed as an excuse to justify yet another lens purchase. It also nicely filled a prime lens FL gap I had as I had nothing between 58mm and 100mm. I purchased my Jupiter-9 85/2 from a forum member after doing a bit of research and found that is a well regarded lens.
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I also find them more intuitive and natural than shooting fully manual Pentax A, K, and M type series lenses as I am always forgetting to stop-down meter via green button. I love to shoot them and for me it is more fun to shoot than AUTO (A/M) lenses as I get to infinitely adjust the aperture intuitive and see the effects through the view finder as I dial the aperture up or down. Sharpness: 9 Aberrations: 9 Bokeh: 10 Handling: 9 Value: 9įirst of all, I am enamored with preset lenses. Fast.Ī couple of idiosyncrasies with the Aperture Preset and Settings (read) A bit cumbersome sometimes, but once you get used to it, it's actually quite fun to use. I personally kind of like the preset aperture mechanism. In my copy the focus ring is very stiff, so it's a little bit of a pain to focus. With that said though, this big chunck of thick metal and glass comes to a cost. i like to believe that the actual metal that it's made of, actually comes from a real russian tank My copy has no coating on the lenses so is very prone to flare and has low contrast (hood not only recommended, but mandatory!). CA is noticeable (but not distracting, actually somewhat pleasing) wide open and becomes way better after f/4. So i don't know, but those russian lenses seem to differ quite a bit depending on the manufacturing year and location, even if they look identical.Īnyways, my copy is quite sharp, even at f/2.
The other one had some clearly visible bluish coating on the lenses. My copy seems to not have any coatings on the lenses! even the internal ones they seem to be pure glass. I found out that mine was definitely sharper wide open, with more vivid colours (somewhat warmer too).
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I had the opportunity to try another black Jupiter 9 M42, identical to mine but with different serial number.
I have the M42, black version (identical to the one in the actual review page main photo). Sharpness: 8 Aberrations: 8 Bokeh: 10 Handling: 6 Value: 8 Camera Used: Pentax K50 Heavy and cumbersome to use, flare, low contrast Fast, bokeh, good IQ, built like a tank, can be found cheap
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