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1 hour ago, farnz said:

Is that a Mimosa Pudica that folds its leaves inwards when touched, LCT?  (I don't think I've seen its wonderful flower before.)

Just asked my wife. The answer is Albizia.Those flowers have nice leaves too.

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Tokyo Optical Co. Topcor 5cm F1.5 LTM, M10-P

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1 hour ago, lct said:

Just asked my wife. The answer is Albizia.Those flowers have nice leaves too.

https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-LzMqh6h/0/7532866a/X4/i-LzMqh6h-X4.jpg

Ah thank you.

From Wikipedia: "Albizia is a genus of more than 160 species of mostly fast-growing subtropical and tropical trees and shrubs in the subfamily Mimosoideae." so it is a Mimosa and related to the Pudica.

 

1960 50/2 Rigid Summicron with M10.  Place de la Concord, Paris.

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M10P ASC + 198X Zorkiter-3K 50/1.5 LTM, 1st wide open and 2nd @ f/2 or f/2.8

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Again, M10P ASC + 198X Zorkiter-3K 50/1.5 LTM, wide open @ MFD

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M10M + 198X Zorkiter-3K 50/1.5 LTM @ f/4

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Heap of dino poop, M10 + Jupiter 3 1:1.5/50mm

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All right, since my previous posts seem to have led to frantic enquiries in the past 24 hours on this forum and beyond 😁, the mystery of the Zorkiter-3K shall now be revealed...

A word of background: Zorki ZK ("3K" in cyrillic) lenses were assembled in limited quantities between 1948 and 1950 with spoils of war including Zeiss glass and components, before being subsequently replaced by entirely Russian-made Jupiters when the inventory ran out. As far as FSU lenses go, they are therefore rather uncommon, if not rare, especially in LTM.
It is also well known that there was an extensive Soviet-era production of fake CZJ 50/1.5 LTM Sonnars.

Now, I came across this lens on eBay a couple of years ago: it actually looks like a Jupiter-3, but the beauty ring says it's a ZK 50/1.5. I also own a 'genuine' ZK 50/1.5 copy, which looks (except the front engravings, of course) like a bona fide CZJ LTM Sonnar - and not quite like this lens.
So neither a real ZK nor a CZJ Sonnar fake. Confusing, right? In a nutshell, I was looking at a fake Zorki ZK 50/1.5 - or, to put it differently, Russians 'faking themselves'!

Unsurprisingly, curiosity got the better of me and, after some haggling with the Ukrainian seller, I agreed to pay what a clean J-3 should cost. I later sent it to Chris Andreyo (Skyllaney) for evaluation and CLA, who confirmed it is indeed a J-3 from the 80's disguised as a 1950 ZK. Chris even wrote a post about it on the Skyllaney FB account.
The good news is that, in terms of performance, the lens is a pretty good J-3...

Here again the Zorkiter-3K (not a great name btw, but I couldn't come up with something better) on the M10P ASC, both wide open.

Edit: in case you are wondering, neither of these is my garden...🙄

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plum - M10M Summicron M 50mm DR

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Bouquet and Bokeh

Chiyoko Super Rokkor 50/2 C on my 240.

Now this one I can see the summitar influence!

 

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Leica III & Elmar 3.5cm f3.5 uncoated | All shot wide open

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Leica M1/2 JMF - 50Kinoptik Apo - TriX

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MDa with Telyt 4.8/280 on Visoflex III with Bellows II, on Portra 400.

Lex

 

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MDa with Telyt 4/200 on Visoflex III with Bellows II, on Portra 400.

Lex

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Another lens this time. Lens head of the Steinheil Culminar 4.5/135mm with Novoflex Culring on Novoflex bellows, Visoflex III on M6, with Portra 400. This relatively simple lens keeps surprising me.

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Leica SL2-S * Leica Adapter M/L * Leica Noctilux 1.0/50 (III) * f/1.0 * Capture One Pro 20

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Something to celebrate  . . . 

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240 + 50mm Lux II

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A Feather on Grass

M8 65 Elmar on Visoflex

 

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Summar 5 cm Leica M7 Fuji200

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