Cross from the Soviet Lenses Club thread
This lens came to me with the aperture blades mangled. To say that putting them back in working order was fun is an understatement.
Of course it came with a Fotosnaiper FS-12-3 kit as a back lens cap. The kit just lacks the Helios 44M-6 lens and some of the leatherette box divisions but is otherwise in very good cosmetic condition.
SOTC, converted to JPEG on RawTherapee.
On this one the only light used is the one of the lamp in the foreground and the lens was mounted on a tripod at about MFD.
This other one, taken at F8 but I'm not so sure, is a torture test on a very bright overcast day, and used the rifle stock for the camera and and lens.