I've been playing with Russian lenses on my Olympus and Panasonic cameras this winter. I finally got a nice Jupiter 9 85mm f2.0 M42 screw mount lens. It
is regarded as one of the best Russian copy lenses dating from the 50's onward. I think the Jupiter 9 was popular at the height of film in the 80's.
You use them with an adapter in totally manual mode on any digital single lens reflex camera that will work with adapters. 4/3's cameras like the Olympus
E1 I was using to play with the Jupiter 9 today seem to work the best, in my experience, though my Pentax cameras are equally good, but the adapter is very
thin and difficult to get on and off the camera.
I played around outside then got my Sunpak auto bounce flash and tried it in the Varnish room with a couple rods in the turner. Here is a shot of the second stripper guide on a saltwater rod with a glass rod in the background.
Nothing special, just a nice clean shot. The rod in the background is an 8' 6 piece one, with 7397 wraps on it and half a million trim wraps. Endless those multi piece rods. I took a shot of the front of the grip with one of Joel Lemke's nickel plated winding checks. That is the first coat of varnish. Actually two coats. I do one thin coat to soak the wraps, wait about fifteen minutes then soak it with another full coat. That gives me a good solid transparent wrap, with just tint and very little thread form.
Those are English bronze plated guides from Pacific Bay. They are a nice deep bonze color, pretty much a medium brown. I've done about a half a dozen rods with them so far. I think they are quite attractive in a subtle way. They are a nice complement to one of Joel's spalted maple inserts in his nickel silver downlock:
I think the lens is going to do a nice job for me. The nice thing about it is its ability to isolate things from the background with a nice bokeh.
I played around outside then got my Sunpak auto bounce flash and tried it in the Varnish room with a couple rods in the turner. Here is a shot of the second stripper guide on a saltwater rod with a glass rod in the background.
Nothing special, just a nice clean shot. The rod in the background is an 8' 6 piece one, with 7397 wraps on it and half a million trim wraps. Endless those multi piece rods. I took a shot of the front of the grip with one of Joel Lemke's nickel plated winding checks. That is the first coat of varnish. Actually two coats. I do one thin coat to soak the wraps, wait about fifteen minutes then soak it with another full coat. That gives me a good solid transparent wrap, with just tint and very little thread form.
Those are English bronze plated guides from Pacific Bay. They are a nice deep bonze color, pretty much a medium brown. I've done about a half a dozen rods with them so far. I think they are quite attractive in a subtle way. They are a nice complement to one of Joel's spalted maple inserts in his nickel silver downlock:
I think the lens is going to do a nice job for me. The nice thing about it is its ability to isolate things from the background with a nice bokeh.
