cputeq, I was using the IBIS 1, manually set to 400mm. The rear head shot hand held, the gulls head monopod IBIS off. Even though I did use it hand held I would recommend the monopod every time. It would be worth experimenting with the monopod and the different IBIS settings as I do use a lose head so that there is easy movement of camera and lens. Yet with a lose ball joint on the monopod it keeps it a lot steadier than hand held for me. Maybe I aught to try the different IBIS settings, one day I may but that would take quite a lot of time and shots to make a valuable assessment that is correct. I tend not to have the inclination for something like that.
Wilbus the jupiter lenses are the poor mans Leica lens often used on Leica cameras. All I know is what I have read online. What I read may or may not be correct. It was basically written that when the Berlin wall was built many of the factories that Leica used, were taken over and their patents were copied to produce lenses. The various camera\'s that the Russians made for export such as the Zorki range had these M39 fit thread lenses as their kit lens. Photographers in the wets who could not afford the Leica lenses would often use the jupiters. The jupiter 8 is a 50mm f2 . It is the only jupiter lens I own. It is about the same size as the Oly 45 if a tad smaller. A cute lens.
