Originally posted by AML Voe, thanks for posting this thread on the Helios. I found it very interesting seeing these pics, i don't have the 44-2, but do have the 44-4 in the mail. It will be my first Russian lens, so i'm very curious to see how it performs.
I love the vibrant colours in your first two pics. Is it me, or does the Bokeh look a little unusual in pics 2? Voe, i think it's my monitor, but in the girl portrait shot her skin tone looks like it has a greenish cast to it.
Zewrak, Wow! That certain is a great shot. It's hairs look so soft and cuddly hehe!! Love the detail.
Hi Ane,
The bokeh from this lens is a little bit unusual yes, actually it is much different than what I used to get from the Helios-44M-4 that I used to have. This one is not nessesary bad or good, it's just different. Just like with paint brushes it is always better to have some variety and I find that this particular lens "paints" the bokeh quite differently than anything I have seen.
The skin on the girl might be affected by the mixture between daylight and tungsteen lighting and maybe the Auto white balance of my K10D got perplexed. I did not touch these images except slightly adjusting contrast and brightness.
Taken into account that this lens is a copy of Zeiss Biotar 58mm f/2 made by most likely german machinery and german workers taken by the russians after WWII, like most Zeiss lenses this lens gives the cold (maybe bluish) rendering.
I am glad that there is someone else on this forum interested in old russian lenses
Hi Zewrak,
Can you post some more pics made with this lens that shows its bokeh?
I noticed that in some situation this lens brings a beautiful bokeh and in others not as standard as we are used to see.
Thanks.
Dan, this mistake is very easy and cheap to fix
I saw some beautiful close focus photos when you add an extension tube.
Cheers,