How it happened...

It all began in 1978...
For one who wants to pass the entrance examination of a school of photography it does not make very serious having no camera! I do not remember if I had at the time some pocket money or if my father paid, but the invoice attests it: I bought on July 18 at the "Continent" superstore a Zenit E with it's standard lens Helios 44-2.
In the user's manual was the list of the lenses made for Zenit, and the idea of collecting them was born...
Next August, I found a Mir-1 at the Paris flea market, and in September I bought the Jupiter-9 which awaited me at the photo counter of "Continent".
At the start of the 1979 school year, I was in Paris for my two years of studies at the school of photography, and the hunting could start, in the Latin Quarter and Boulevard Beaumarchais, the two zones of Paris where the merchants of second-hand equipment concentrate. This kind of hunting can last... I had to wait till February of 2007 to find, thanks to Internet (eBay) the two last items of this list, Telemar-22 and fabulous Jupiter-6; meanwhile, the engineers continued to create, and other toys were added to the list...