Beautiful images Jason.
Beautiful images Jason.
Great images Garrett and Jason.
Just restarted shooting LF (and MF and 35mm) film after a career induced hiatus and am building back “touch” skills, e.g., handling an 8x10 camera quickly and efficiently. It is a lot of fun and encourage you to do it, because your vision will surely produce great work.
Thanks Chassis & Jim. The Nikon has been second string all winter to the Rolleiflex and Speed Graphic. The color is coming back.
Jupiter 9 works even on American aircraft, eh?
Which version do you use? The old all chrome or newer all black?
- The best camera in the world is nothing without someone operating it
- The best lens I own is whichever one is on the camera
- The best camera I own is whichever one is in my hands
Ha! It's a 1956 KMZ aluminum one. It was a great choice for my criteria: light weight lens around 75-90mm that is very sharp, speed didn't matter, I'd be outside. Weight did. I auditioned a Kern Macro Switar 75mm with presets against the Jupiter 9. The Jupiter was sharper, surprisingly, at the antenna on the house across the street. Though the Jupiter was much larger, the aluminum barrel doesn't weigh much. Those Soviet sonnars never cease to amaze. I could have taken an always good Pen-F lens, but I wanted something different this time.
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Adult skate night series here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/garret...57706120187381 Olympus Pen-F 40mm/F1.4.
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I had a Jupiter 9 like our's. Mine was surprisingly soft wide open. But stopped down it equaled anything made in the West. It's long gone as I thought I _needed_ something sharp wide open and a Canon 100mm f/2 EF seemed to fit the bill. Oh well. Live and learn? I wish I had it back. Well, that and a pretty Takumar 85mm f/1.9 that I sold for foolishly little money.
These days I shoot Nikkor 85mm f/1.8 K and 105mm f/2.5 P and have grown to love their rendering.
That Jupiter 9 of your's makes me think I should keep my eyes open during the Bievre Photo Foire (camera swap).
Keep up the great work.
- The best camera in the world is nothing without someone operating it
- The best lens I own is whichever one is on the camera
- The best camera I own is whichever one is in my hands
Sonnars are like that (as are several soft focus LF lenses like the Verito), slightly soft wide open. I love my 2 Nikkor 50/1.4 LTM sonnars for that, make great portrait or pictorial lenses wide open, one stop down, they're super sharp. The sharpest long lens I've ever used is the Canon 135/3.5 in LTM. Just heavy.
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