sherwood, about the repair tips, I guess that's something you would have to search within this forum, cause tinkering
will always be exotic. The best database to search imo is this on
e:
Maintenance & Repairs (Page 1) - Manual Focus Forum
I have had a
Jup11 in my hands for a similar price like
ovim but let it go, even the older white metal version with
multicoating, really nice. Interestingly,
Laurentiu's lens has the aperture ring on the bottom and
ovim's on the
top. Would be good to know how many aperture blades each of your lenses have.
But hey, this is the original Carl Zeiss Sonnar 135 design and I already have the white metal CZJ version (4/135 with
blue coating) which is excellent and the superstar MC 3.5/135 version. Not to forget the MC Jupiter 37A 3.5/135,
another copy with a 12-blade aperture and the same
Kazan logo as
ovim's lens. BTW the first two letters of
the serial most probably tell the year of production, so
ovim's lens should be from 1974.
Here's a sample pic from the Jup37A.
Last edited by georgweb; 09-17-2010 at 12:48 AM.