The Jupiter-3 50 mm f/1.5 lens forms a very beautiful, plastic image with good contrast, has a 'characteristic' pattern. An amazing combination of softness and sharpness, beautiful bokeh - made it very popular with portrait photographers.
Aperture iris, rounded, 13 petals. Changes manually smoothly, not discretely, so any intermediate values are possible. This feature is also appreciated in video shooting for creating effects.
Jupiter-3 super-fast lens with coated optics for Leica, Bessa, FED, Zorki and other rangefinder cameras with same lens mount and with same optical registration.
It was a replica of the German Carl Zeiss Sonnar 1.5/50.
It can be mounted on any LTM RF camera, include modern Bessa cameras, and it can be used with many digital Micro 4/3 cameras with the adapter. In the main, most Soviet lenses are exceptionally good and this is no exception!
At f/1.5 it really is all about the background. For portraits with the background way out of focus you can get very very smooth bokeh.
The Jupiter-3 can be used on mirrorless cameras such as the Sony NEX or the Micro 4/3 system cameras.
Format: 35mm rangefinder
Type: Prime lens
Focusing: Manual Focus (MF)
Lens mounts: M39 Leica screw-mount (LSM)
First year of production: 1948
Optical design: 7 elements in 3 groups