Interesting lens Jupiter-3 1: 1,5 F = 5cm P sent for review Vladimir Mikhailovich.
Overview of Jupiter-3 1: 1,5 F = 5cm P
There are many different modifications of Jupiter-3, since the lens itself was produced at several Soviet factories and has undergone a number of modifications. My copy number is N5704933, which means that the lens was released in 1957 already from 'our' Soviet optical glass. This review is very superficial, since, for some reason, I am not currently able to test Jupiter-3 with focusing at infinity. Jupiter-3 1: 1,5 F = 5cm P is lens from rangefinder cameras with M39 mounting thread.
View of Jupiter-3 50 / 1.5 on the Central Control Commission
Now, in 2013, Jupiter-3 50 / 1.5 at flea markets sell at 150-200 cu It is considered one of the most legendary lenses of the Soviet Union, although it was originally copied from the German Zonnar. Soviet lenses with aperture F / 1.4, F / 1.5 can be counted on one hand. You can find an interesting overview of Jupiter-3 converted "to infinity" here.
Type of enlightenment of the lens Jupiter-3 50 / 1.5
The lens has a single layer coating, which is indicated by the red letter 'P' in the lens name. The focusing ring rotates 180 degrees, the front lens does not rotate when focusing, and the lens trunk lengthens slightly. The MDF of the lens is 1 meter. Jupiter-3 50 / 1.5 is interesting for its 13 blade aperture. The aperture is continuously adjustable without fixed intermediate values. Very few lenses boast 13 diaphragm blades that form a perfect even hole, which creates the right circles of blur.
Jupiter-3 lens aperture
Sample Photos
Everything is shot at F / 1.5. The lens has a chic, unusual design. Many just love the bokeh of the lens. I used Jupiter-3 50 / 1.5 only in macro mode, because it is difficult for me to judge the quality of the photo in reality. But still, the lens gives a strong yellow-green tint in the photo and has pronounced spherical aberrations at F / 1.5.
My experience
On the Canon 350D I planted Jupiter-3 50 / 1.5 not using a conventional adapter, but simply drowned the lens in the bayonet shaft of the camera, and then fixed this design with an opaque adhesive tape. Thus, I tried to somewhat reduce the macro effect.
I do not recommend throwing away so much money for the sake of Jupiter-3 50 / 1.5, but the younger brother of the lens can serve as a quite worthy replacement for it - Jupiter 8... Jupiter-8 and Jupiter-3 take pride of place in my printed album of 'bockenators'. I was so delighted with the drawing of Jupiter-3 that I ordered a Jupiter-8 cinema lens for $ 3. for macro experiments :) although I have long sworn not to buy old manual optics!
Sizes of two range-finding fifty dollars
How to use with modern cameras?
Lenses with an M39 thread (for rangefinder cameras, M39 X 1/28.8), such as the lens from this review, are very easy to use on almost any modern digital camera (both SLR and mirrorless), for this you just need to choose the right adapter (adapter). There is no need to carry out any additional actions to remake the lens. The cheapest adapters can be found at Aliexpress.com.
For mirrorless cameras
- SONY: For cameras with 'E'/'FE' mount series SonyNEX и Sony Alpha need here is an adapter M39 -Sony E (aka L39 -Sony Nex).
- OLYMPUS / PANASONIC / KODAK / XIAOMI: For cameras with a bayonet mount Micro 4/3 (Micro 4:3) need here is an adapter M39-Micro 4/3.
- CANON M: For cameras with Canon EF-M mount need here is such an adapter M39-Canon M.
- CANON R and RF-S: For cameras with Canon RF mount need here is such an adapter M39-Canon R.
- Nikon 1: For cameras Nikon 1 Series need here is such an adapter M39-Nikon 1.
- Nikon Z: For cameras Nikon Z series (FX/DX) needed here is such an adapter M39-Nikon Z.
- FUJIFILM X: For cameras with mount X need here is such an adapter M39-Fuji X.
- FUJIFILM GFX: For medium format cameras G-mount need here is such an adapter M39-Fuji GFX.
- SAMSUNG: NX mount cameras require here is an adapter M39-Samsung NX. There are no adapters for the NX mini camera yet.
- SIGMA / PANASONIC / LEICA: For cameras with L mount need here is such an adapter M39-Leica L.
- LEICA: For cameras with a bayonet mount Leica M need here is an adapter M39-L / M.
It's important: for SLR cameras, only macro mode is possible (can only shoot at very close focusing distances).
For SLR cameras (macro mode only)
- Canon: For cameras Canon EOS with bayonet mount EF / EF-S need here is an adapter M39 -Canon EOS.
- NIKON: For cameras Nikon DX / FXas well as for cameras Fujifilm и Kodak with Nikon F mount needed here is such an adapter M39 -Nikon F (some cameras will only work in M-mode).
- PENTAX: For Pentax K-mount cameras, you need here is such an adapter M39 -Pentax K.
- SONY/MINOLTA: For cameras with a Sony/Minolta A mount, you need here is an adapter M39 -Sony A.
- OLYMPUS/PANASONIC/LEICA: For cameras with 4/3 mount (not to be confused with Micro 4/3!) here is an adapter M39 -4/3.
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Conclusions:
Jupiter-3 1: 1,5 F = 5cm P - small, compact super-high-aperture Soviet fifty for rangefinder cameras. It has a very nice drawing, but unfortunately there is no mirror version of the lens. Nowadays Jupiter-3 50 / 1.5 is more expensive than many 'native' autofocus reflexes of fifty dollars.
You can still read interesting information on JUPITER-3 in the review JUPITER-3 1,5/50 with mount Contax-Kiev RF.
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Arkady, is it possible (in the future) to make full-fledged reviews of lenses from rangefinders (and not only) on mirrorless cameras? As far as I understand, focusing infinity will be possible.
Need to buy a mirrorless. I think I’ll shoot on film Vigilant. This time, Yu-3 did not want to completely screw into my Zorkiy-4, so I rejected this idea.
In the butts of the photo є so ч black berries, for dinner, і. Maybe you should be called?
This is Lakonos (American phytolacca) - a poisonous plant. It is used in the treatment of headaches, hypertension, kidney disease and radiculitis.
It’s a dyak’ I won’t die, having tasted a berry
dyakoy for review
Older rangefinder lenses work fine on the Sony nex system.
I rushed a little with the choice of camera. Even a simple adapter M39-Nikon 1 in Ukraine so far is not realistic to find :(
Focusing at infinity is good, but the same Jupiter-8 on a Nikon 1 mirrorless camera turns from 50mm to conventional 135mm, which is not at all the same ...
Sorry for the many letters.
M39-nikon is not at all .. like the M39-canon ..
you need two - M39-M42 (threaded ring) + M42-nikon. but there are.
M39-Nikon is. I have a rangefinder lens from the FED-5 attached to the Nikon))
I have never seen it on sale, although I rummaged through all sorts of Chinese sites at one time enough ... with m42 - tons, with 39 - an eternal problem.
link to the studio!
On the aukro adapter, the M39-Nikon is without problems, a little more expensive than the M42-Nikon.
http://aukro.ua/adapter-m39-m39-nikon-i3459859304.html
http://aukro.ua/kolco-perehodnoe-adapter-m39-nikon-m39-i3443050840.html
thank you.
hmm, why look for a monolithic adapter M39-canon / nikon / pentax? they are, but they are rare, isn't it easier to buy M42- * insert the name of the system * and the simplest ring M39-M42 here? on baby, both M42 and M39-M42 shaft ...
for example here - http://www.ebay.com/itm/screw-mount-step-up-Ring-Adapter-f-Leica-M39-lens-to-M42-camera-M39-M42-/360668669746?pt=US_Lens_Adapters_Mounts_Tubes&hash=item53f9872732 one green president for solving the problem of M39 lenses subject to a resolved problem with the M42
Thank you, Arkady! interesting to read about retro.
It seems to me that it is unlikely that perfect circles will be on this instance, in the photo a pentagon is clearly visible, although it consists of 13 petals
Which photo?
“Jupiter-3 lens aperture”, photo on the right.
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When the circle is completely closed, the circle goes astray, but at intermediate values the aperture is really round.
Clear. By the way, senks for the link: Elizarov has quite interesting soft-photos)
You, too, as always)
And for what reason did you promise to “not buy old manual optics!”?
because at some stage you realize that “you can't stop and buy and buy more”, but you don’t need so many lenses anyway - you just don’t have time to take pictures with them, or “you just take pictures for the sake of interest and put them on the shelf. It becomes corny to feel sorry for the money spent constantly.
That's it :)
and yak yogo put on nikon schob bula without time
Tell me, who can, I have sony nex, through the adapter I put several copies of Jupiter-8M on it (for the Kiev film), everyone had infinity. Now I bought Jupiter-3, also from Kiev, but it focuses up to a maximum of 4,5 meters.
What could be the problem? Somewhere in my ear I heard that they had an adjustment for a specific camera, but I'm not sure. If so, how do I align it?
obiektivyupiter-3.ru/
it’s a pity that there are no portraits in the review
It is impossible to physically make a portrait with a mirror with this lens.
This is one of the most attractive lenses. The picture from him is magical (I have a 61-year-old lens, bayonet lens). For his sake I bought three cameras Kiev, for the sake of him I still photograph them on film. I could add portraits from him to this site, but I don’t know how. But this is a miracle. It seems that Jupiter-9 is an analogue of this lens for SLR cameras, but the effect is already different. Not that contrast, perspective (read, bokeh), simultaneous softness and sharpness.
Absolutely not analog, but the scheme is the same - Zonnar. Jupiter-9 is generally the only dressmaker in the Soviet Union.
Good day and health to all. Mirror version of Jupiter 3. Take any filter for this lens, unscrew the glass. We order in optics the size of this glass a negative lens of about -4.2 diopters; we put a filter on the lens instead of glass in the filter. Next, the adapter ring M39 to M42, then remove the Yosi adapter. Distortions are added. Ha. But the result may not be expected (watercolor effect on wet) Sincerely, Alexander.
Hmm ... maybe just order a positive lens from the optics and screw it in instead of the lens? And cheap, and Jupiter-3 is not needed. Don't kill the lens. Although, if in truth, Jupiter-3 is, you know, the rangefinder Helios-40. Like “A scho є in a hippopotamus!” (C). To use it at 1,5 on a rangefinder camera, you really have to contrive. I adjusted mine with Zorky-6, and only with individual adjustment could it be possible to shoot with it in the open, and then knowing which point of the face to focus on. In absolutely all cases and with the best result, we will replace it with Jupiter-8. Especially if it is Jupiter-8M, but connoisseurs are more attracted to the Krasnogorsk version of the first issues, with a leash of the first type. Including me.
Read carefully. I do not propose to kill the lens, I suggest using a negative lens to remove its myopia, since rangefinder cameras have a different flange. Everything is easy to screw on and twist. And you dear, you can still see that connoisseur…. Screw in the positive lens elsewhere. In general, my proposal is for creative people, but not for Internet theorists. Best regards and good health to all, Alexander.
To be honest, I do not see at all why there is to pay 150-200 $. In all examples, the sharpness is absent as such, full of parasitic highlights, in short - the optical quality of the picture is simply none.
For 1.4? I don’t even know .. A sharper Helios 81 image gives better and for only $ 30-40, let him have a smaller aperture and petals too.
I am not talking about comparison with modern lenses like SEL50F18 - heaven and earth. So why is this lens so valuable?
How to shoot on SEL50F18 with FF? How much does a zeis cost on a7? and after the collapse of the ruble is better than u3!
here are portraits of a7 and u3 https://www.flickr.com/photos/14389388@N03/12928238104/in/photostream/
Link to Rockcor 58 / 1.2.
And the photo is mediocre, the bosoms are generally square.
from the collection of the pope lies Jupiter 3 issue 1951 tail contact :) here I’ll finish the adapter for Fujiku X-T1 and I will be happy :)
and screwed! Jupiter 3 (tail contact) on Fujiku X-T1 :) photos from this assembly are gradually giving out in contact, facebook, etc. :)
Arkady, and you did not review the best bokeshnyh glasses, plastic with air?
For example, this glass, although expensive and rare, can be attributed to such ...
It would be very interesting to arrange a vote, as you did with portraiturers, can you do it?
Sincerely, Eugene
Here's how to determine the quality of the lens? Is it really necessary to shoot everything at point blank range? What about infinity? If the lens does not withstand quality at infinity, then what is the difference in its aperture ratio?
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I got such a lens with a FED 3. I tried shooting on Sony Alpha 6000. The photos are very nice. It focuses on mirrorless ones without problems. I myself own a Nikon DSLR, but I’m thinking about buying a Sony mirrorless, for Soviet optics, that’s it.
photo to the studio!
Owner Sonya my colleague left the pictures with him, tomorrow I'll upload it to myself then.