This is a brief excerpt from thePhoBlographer
After selling my Leica M8 a while ago, there was a huge gap in my camera collection: physically and metaphysically. There was a gap in my shelf, there was a gap in my lineup but there also was a gap in my soul. Because let’s face it, a Leica is not a camera you buy with your head, but with your heart. So I decided to get a replacement for it and bought a CL body — the smallest and cheapest M-mount camera ever made. And what is the cheapest lens you can get for your Leica? Well, the Russian Jupiter-8 of course!
The Jupiter-8 may not be the cheapest lens you can get for your Leica (or any other M- or M39-mount camera), but it is certainly one of the cheapest. Made by KMZ in the former Soviet Union between the 50ies and 90ies, the Jupiter-8 is a copy of the pre-war Contax 50mm f2 Sonnar lens from Zeiss — but in M39 Leica screw mount (so you’ll need an adapter to use it on an M-mount body like the CL). During the time that it was made, it came in a number of different chrome (earlier) and …
By: Felix Esser
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