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  | sent on 14 Febbraio 2022 Pros: swirly bokeh, flare all to be exploited, solid, beautiful colors, excellent rings Cons: heavy, not very sharp in TA Opinion: Optics that are worth every penny, I found it new, paid more than it should but perfect. The flares, if properly exploited, are really an amazing touch: I deliberately do not mount the hood. I would never detach it, it's a craze. The only real drawback, for me, is the weight, but solidity has its reverses. Be careful because the swirly effect is obtained at a given distance between the subject, background and shooting point. |
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 | sent on 20 Luglio 2021 Pros: Everything for the price Cons: Nothing for the price Opinion: Paid 50 euros by a private individual. Impeccable construction, fluid rings the right, sharp, excellent blurry, beautiful colors. Louso with adapter on a GX 80 and so I have a nice 100 mm for portraits of all kinds and non-macro flora at a neglitry cost. I intend to try it as a macro with a couple of loops. I'm passionate about vintage lenses |
  | sent on 11 Febbraio 2021 Pros: Fantastic lens: metal, soft rings (controlled in the laboratory), optical quality, very particular bokeh, sharpness, M42 attachment. Cons: is not f 1.2; addiction... Opinion: In love lost to vintage optics (even non-vintage). This one from the Helios series (like the others) is very convenient to use because of the very soft rings. The M42 attachment makes it possible to use it ( with adapter ) in manual, on almost all machine bodies both digital and analog. This is often underestimated because of the low-cost specimens that can be found. Only then, always the low-cost specimens, they have hard rings, mushrooms and truffles and sausages inside, reassembled lenses who knows how, poorly controlled diaphragms that in some cases would need to be cleaned and in some cases even oiled. Apart from that, the specimens that work and that have passed for a check in a photoreparation laboratory go great and the derisory cost of the lens is overpaid by the results obtained. I personally can only over-advise him. And anyway, once you use these, you also want to try the others that in succession are: the 85 mm, the 135 mm, the 200 mm and the fantastic 300 mm, but this is another story. |
 | sent on 10 Febbraio 2021 Pros: Bokeh, metal construction, cost, vintage yield Cons: Focus a little hard, otherwise nothing Opinion: It came to me 2 days ago and I immediately started playing with this beautiful toy... It should be said that I use it on canon Eos 6D reflex ina and many told me that mounting vintage optics on such a machine was a feat because of the focus.... I HAVE TO BLAME HIM... Precisely for this lens the ease with which I can focus directly from the viewfinder is amazing, I did not expect it ... The "hot" effect that you give the photos I couldn't give even in PP... Good sharpness, of course, not excellent but years later he still says his! The only sore note is the focus ring, but once you get into the habit it's love after a few shots |
 | sent on 18 Ottobre 2020 Pros: Vintage effect difficult to achieve with modern goals. Easily adaptable to Canon. Cons: Given the price. Nobody Opinion: Excellent vintage optics, with a beautiful blurry effect. Easily usable on canon, via adapter. Tried with excellent results on canon 6d mark ii and canon 4000d. Manual focus requires some gimmicks. I find blurry is better on FF than on APS-C. Besides portraits, I don't see any other uses. Also tested with macro extension tubes, but sharpness is not the best. |
 | sent on 23 Marzo 2020 Pros: General quality, image quality, blurry. Cons: Ghiera diaframmi hard, a peculiar focal. Opinion: On APS-C undoubtedly a lens that is quite usable in portraits. On full frame someone considers it a very good "no meat nor fish". I have found it, to my surprise, in the suitcase of a Russian photosniper kit in pairs with the Tair 300 f 4.5... the seller perhaps forgot to tell me. in a well-protected suitcase ravine, a few weeks after the purchase, and, from the state of preservation I think never used, one day I found a plastic bag containing this jewel, well built, solid, finished well, and by the yield Amazing... closing the diaphragm a little bit will give you some very sharp images... realistic colors, although in my specimen they tend to be a cold, blurry amazing hair... In short... a lens that struggles to detach from the camera... used in macros only at full opening, having the classic diaphragms to be held down thoroughly to allow it to be adjusted (use extensions m42 without batting ring, alas), but I think it's fabulous by closing the diaphragm... Taken at a few pennies is a must have. The only note, in my specimen, is both the dial focus, and the diaphragms, a little too harsh. |
 | sent on 17 Ottobre 2019 Pros: All Cons: Nothing but addictive Opinion: A fantastic bokeh gorgeous colors. We have to take our hand for the diaphragm diaphragm. Beautiful lens bought from a few days love at first click. It is not very easy to put the subject at the right distance to have the famous blurred but the tests are made for this. I'm doing it to iosa. It's very inspiring and for the amount it costs it's really a blast. |
 | sent on 06 Ottobre 2019 Pros: Bokeh, constructive solidity, price, fun in use, yield Cons: Not suitable for novices, MAF dial a bit duretta Opinion: I have the PK-attack version, not M42, but I think it's the same thing. Chameleon lens, although it requires a bit of malice in being able to exploit it adequately and above all wants the light conditions that suit it. In fact, if put in the right context pulls out swirling bokeh very close to the Petzval (which is not quite right) and once you start using it becomes very fun and difficult to remove from the machine body! It is still a Helios so it tends to have more sharpness in the center, while on the sides it is softer even with a more closed diaphragm. A lens for those who love challenges and want to face them with a smile. |
 | sent on 06 Aprile 2019 Pros: Swirly Effect, negligible cost Cons: Don't Play with us Opinion: Found used by Russia for €40! I mounted it on my Sony A6000 with an M42-NEX adapter, cost €10. From the menu you have to activate the shot without lens, of course use only manual, MAF included. Its particular swirly effect and aperture open at F2 guarantee a unique blur. If you can find a particular background you create really magical effects. It Suffers in backlight but it is not necessarily a defect. You never get tired of playing it. The Focus Ring is "oily", does not flow fluidly, sometimes it can be hard. Never even the colors are trivial. There are many models at similar prices. Given the cost is worth a chance. ATTENTION, Addictive! |
 | sent on 15 Marzo 2019 Pros: Swirly effect, construction and handling Cons: MAF uncertain, completely manual, does not communicate, so nothing EXIF Opinion: The yield is the famous one of the Zenit, you have to use adapters rings and at least for attack Nikon trick to operate the diaphragms fixed to F2, for Nikon you lose the PDC, unless you use adapter with additional lens that of course does Losing quality to an already unincisive lens, but... What wonders can be pulled out, is so scarce that in the presence of humidity has nothing to envy to the famous and expensive Trioplan, all spending really insignificant figures that roam the 20-40 euros according to the version.. Very helpful, everyone should have a copy in the bag.. The shots are almost never sharp... but always magical... |
 | sent on 05 Dicembre 2018 Pros: Crisp, swirly bokeh, vintage colors, beautiful 3d Cons: Manual MAF, no infinity. Opinion: A surprising lens, built well, solid and contained at the same time, there are many versions and from specimen to specimen you can see differences, the spiral bokeh effect that returns, when in the background there are leaves is unique and is Become in the time a signature of these optical fashions in the USSR; Usable on Nikon machines via adapter, simple metal or with corrective optics, personally I opted for the metal adaptor to not degrade the optical quality, taken very little through Ali Express, later I modified the scheme Optical, adding shims between the lenses to get as close as possible to the draught of my D750, for lack of the right thickness I approach a lot but I do not get the complete MAF to infinity, I use it mainly for portraits, on an APS-C body This optics approaches a Helios M40-2, but a few euros, on mirrorless with the focus peaking reborn to new life. |
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| sent on 07 Settembre 2018 Pros: 20 euros and not hear them. As sharp as a modern lens. Swirly!! Cons: ??????? Really for 20 euros you're looking for a cons??????? Opinion: Taken a few years ago on ebay for 20 euros shipped, to use it on A7M1. Taken for fun. What about... Sometimes I wonder if the FE 55 1.8 that accompanies me often (wonderful lens) is really worth 50 times, in terms of euros, this vintage. At F2 already very good though a soft wire in some situations of particular light. At 2.8 almost perfect. Great for portraits. The Bokeh is peculiar and very sought after just because enveloping, I would say hypnotic. Definitely not creamy. On A7M3 now I also goes on autofocus (with eye-AF). I'm so happy with this lens that I'm also looking for the 8-blade version, although I don't think there can be much difference. |
 | sent on 30 Marzo 2017 Pros: given Cons: I want to use it Opinion: I have this lens and also the Pentacon 2.8 / 29, which I have been given together with the old analog machine, and I would use them on my 5D Mark III. Reading your reviews I understand that they are two good goals but without many pretensions. It is worth mounting it on my Canon adapter, or not worth the money? that adapter should I use? |
 | sent on 02 Novembre 2016 Pros: to everything, sharpness and color rendition Cons: nobody views the lens clsaa Opinion: I possess always been, in the 80 to 35mm camera, now Canon EOS 600D. Used in reverse allows an aperture control (put a glue goccina on automatic iris control rod, so as to take the lead on just the outer ring). The use especially in this way, modern lenses do not have the iris ring. It has a great boken, shame about the 6 aperture blades, the version that has eight boken most beautiful and round. The front lens, perhaps all, are not anti-reflective, this deficiency allows lighting effects (reflections) spectacular, a real fun. |
 | sent on 08 Ottobre 2015 Pros: Sharpness, bokeh, build quality Cons: Maf ring and contrast Opinion: Purchased (25 € on ebay shipped from the UK in good condition) to try it on and then Canon Fuji now. If the first set aps-c was happy I was, on the Fuji are stunned. I version 44-4, then 6-blade, slightly less than 44-2 to 8, but when practical changes very little, bokeh particular and there was what I interessava.rnLa ring runs pretty well, but I find oil, I do not know whether to seniority or less. RNLA construction is typical of those years, metal and glass, glass and metal. A tank in every sense! Nothing to say! RNI colors are slightly washed out, the lens does not think it's MC, then against sun suffer a bit, but nothing serious in any of the two cases. |
 | sent on 19 Marzo 2015 Pros: Sharpness, unbeatable service, quality construction, swirly bokeh !! Cons: is an old lens and must take note. Does not have the quality of those new and has no AF. The purchase of this Helios is justified only for the simple playful aspect or economic Opinion: Before purchase I have documented on various versions .. and in the end I got this for twenty euro. Ridiculously low price right for what it offers. That is, the space! For my taste, and for that I expected already clear to f2, metal construction (my looks new because it has no scratches), the focus ring sliding but not butter. The lens loses contrast backlit (as is normal) but the photos that you can do, especially in this condition seem to be painted. Great to play with! With focus peaking focus is simple .. the rest is pure fun! Samples: http://www.juzaphoto.com/me.php?pg=116403&l=it |
  | sent on 15 Marzo 2015 Pros: Ridiculously low price, only robust metal, optical quality very good, so is the mechanics. Beautiful colors, very good sharpness even at full aperture, excellent bokeh Cons: Ring maf little soft (not always necessarily a disadvantage, imho). Opinion: Recovered from a Zenit11 (still operational) just out of curiosity I mounted (by proper fitting) on ??Canon EOS 500D ... I was literally surprised by its quality, I never thought that a lens screw "Russian", with decades behind, could withstand the "modernity". Of course its resolving power in lines per mm is not stellar, it would be asking too much. Of APS is a "90mm" (92.8 Canon), good in the portrait for its "softness". At close range, as regards the focus, from the points to the most current objectives of (+ or -) of focus: It has a bokeh simply fantastico.rn Very satisfied with his performance on the field, definitely lives up to the merit of those who 'built. In fact it can also create "dependency". |
 | sent on 30 Novembre 2014 Pros: Price, construction, small size and weight, optical quality, color, bokeh.rn Cons: ring maf Opinion: Bought at € 20 in perfect condition (I feel lucky) to mount it on the EOS M and I can only say that it is a lens "magical". It has a very good color rendering. Offers a three-dimensional rather nice, but the best thing of this lens are the bokeh really fantastic! RnCrea a certain dependence !! I can not remove it from the machine. I sold the 40mm 2.8 and the 50mm 1.8 also since I have this ring obiettivo.rnLa focus is a little hard and we must get used. rnLo advice primarily for those who love to shoot in manual. Great for portraits, street and for viaggi.rnPer what it costs is worth it! |
 | sent on 12 Gennaio 2014 Pros: Optical quality. Small and easy to handle. Absent distortion. Bokeh. Price Cons: Mechanical quality (the ring maf is jerky) Opinion: Fantastic view from the point of view of optical flaw on the mechanical side. The focus ring is a little smoother and fuocheggiare often becomes difficult ... why not see it fit to report. For the portrait posing is fabulous: the optical performance is fantastic already at f2, great colors properly saturated (but to slightly magenta) and slight vignetting and distortion absent. Bokeh fabulous! RNE 'perspective that made me sell the Sigma 50/1.4 (too prissy and a little magic) to that great when I found it "cumbersome" (not only for its size) from what I have purchased and adapted the 'helios 44m4 on my 5dmii! RNLA recommend it to everyone. It gives great satisfaction to me .... that is a full 9! |
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