Jupiter (lenses)
The Jupiter (Russian: Юпитер, "Jupiter") series of lenses are Russian camera lenses made by various manufacturers in the former Soviet Union.
They were made to fit many camera types of the time, from pre-WWII rangefinders to almost modern SLRs.
They are copied from Zeiss pre-WWII designs with incremental improvements, such as coatings, introduced during production.
The majority of them are based on Zeiss Sonnar optical scheme, but that's not a rule.
The Jupiter-3 lens is derived from Zeiss Sonnar optical design.
In recent years, a new version of this lens was manufactured[2] by collaboration of the companies Lomography and Zenit.
The lens is named Jupiter-3+ and is meant to be used with Leica-style rangefinder cameras (either Leica thread mount or Leica M mount with an adapter), but can also be used with any digital mirrorless camera.
The Jupiter-6 lens is derived from Zeiss Sonnar optical design.
Additionally, there existed a modified version of this lens, called the Jupiter-8M.
[5] Its focal length is 85mm, which makes it a short telephoto lens usually used for portrait photography.
It's most commonly found today in the Leica thread mount used on Zorki, FED, and some other Soviet rangefinders, and the Contax mount used on Kiev rangefinders.
It's most commonly found today in the Leica thread mount used on Zorki, FED, and some other Soviet rangefinders, and the Contax mount used on Kiev rangefinders.
It's a large format lens, originally used for aerial photography.
This is a lens that was meant to be produced in big quantities to replace Jupiter-8 as the new default lens on Soviet Leica thread mount rangefinders.
It never actually got to a point where it was produced, but a few prototypes of this lens exist in collections.
The lens was made in multiple mounts and is frequently adapted to modern cameras nowadays.
A suffix means this lens has an inter changeable mount.
