I got a kick out of that too! Ahh, nothing like the smell of fresh heavy Russian grease... The smell was strongest with my Industar 61 L/Z
The joke goes that the oil they use is squeezed from rotten cabbages.
My Jupiter 9 was a disappointment to me, actually. I bought mine new for about $50, so I didn't expect much (plus, I'm a long-time owner of this stuff and have appropriate expectations). The problem is not with the lens, but with the ergonomics. The focus ring is WAY too tight, and the preset aperture ring is even tighter, with detents so hard that it takes a good grip on the ring to turn it. The problem with that good a grip is that my thumb invariably leaks over onto the focus ring, and thus I upset the focus trying to stop down the preset aperture.
It won't be the first time I've had to take apart an ex-Soviet lens and relube it, but this one isn't really good enough to be worth the trouble, it seems to me.
The Jena Sonnar 135, on the other hand...
Rick "who found it easier to focus the J-9 at a taking aperture of about 2.8 or 4" Denney
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