Jupiter-8 2/50 M39 1955 red P on NEX-3

[iangreenhalgh1]

Stunning lens, hard to imagine a better one imho.


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[Attila]

So many great pictures, light, details on birds are all excellent!

[iangreenhalgh1]

Thanks, it was so great to finally have bright sunlight to shoot in! been about 5 months since we last had light like this.

[aspen]

Great lens! I love the shots with the swans, the sparkle of light off the water. Well done. Ian. Thanks for sharing these.

[iangreenhalgh1]

Cheers. Everyone should own a J-8, for the price they cost there can be no bigger bargain.

I made a couple of HDRs with the J-8 as well:


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[ForenSeil]

Looks very good.
I like the rendering. At which aperture did you shot the ducks and swans? The swans a a real stress test for CAs.
I have one in (still cheaper) Contax RF mount - I hope my adapter arrives soon.

[Selenium_27]

I'm impressed by the first serie of shots, by the lack of flare and by the great contrast of the images.
The front lens is crystal clear, isn't it ?

You had a hood on it ? With post processing ?

[iangreenhalgh1]

The swans and ducks were at f8, I deliberately chose that spot to try this lens as in the afternoon the sun is at the right angle to make it a nightmare place to shoot, if you are going to get CA, flare etc, this is where it will happen.

No hood, I haven't got one the right size, the glass is clear, no scratches, fungus etc, which is lucky as the barrel is pretty beaten up.

I did some light PP, mostly just to correct some slight exposure issues as I had slightly blown out highlights on the swans, I did increase contrast on some of the shots, but not by much.

[Selenium_27]

A good one, keep it

[iangreenhalgh1]

Oh yes, definitely keeping it.

In fact, it impressed me so much I went and added some more early Russians to my collection.

[iangreenhalgh1]

I took the J8 out again and again we had beautiful sunshine, I really am stunned by how good this lens is considering it was made in 1955 and is in less than great condition:


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[ForenSeil]

Very nice HDRs and panoramas! You're living in/near a beautyful country Congrats!
Which software/method did you use for your HDRs and stacking? Is it photomatix?

[iangreenhalgh1]

Cheers, I am lucky to live in such a beautiful place, it's a nature/landscape photographer's nirvana really.

I use ACDSee to batch convert my RAW files into TIFFs then Photomatix 3.2 to make the HDR then Autopano Giga to stitch them.

I was using Photoshop CS5 for the batch converting and stitching but, quite frankly, it sucks at both, it's a lot slower and is a total memory pig even though I have 4 gigs of ram and a pair of dual core Xeons.

I know I've only used it three times but this Jupiter 8 has become my favourite lens, I really cannot fault it, it has no CA, is sharp enough to slice yer eyeballs, is very flare resistant and is as contrasty as a lump of coal sitting on a bed of snow; best of all, it's one of the cheapest lenses you can buy! It's also very well made from metal and is tiny so fits the NEX perfectly.

One of the good things to come from Communism!

[Minolfan]

[LGH]

I love the last four in the second series. Well done!

And the lens certainly looks like it is a good performer. I might have to pick one up!

[iangreenhalgh1]

[Attila]

Beautiful series indeed!