#HELIOS LENS NIKON MOUNT 50MM MANUAL#
#HELIOS LENS NIKON MOUNT 50MM FULL#

If you stop down the Helios 85mm and place your subject in the center of the frame, sharpness isn’t too bad. In late 2015, they finally started to find their way to being easily accessible in North America. Two of the Helios lenses have become legendary for their extremely characterful rendering of bokeh, the first being the relatively common 58mm f/2.0 and the second being the much rarer 85mm f/1.5, which ended up being used more in night vision devices than cameras, which made the few M42 mount versions of the lens quite expensive given the exotic beauty of their performance.Ī few years ago, in reaction to this demand, the Helios 40-2 85mm f/1.5 was updated for modern DSLR mounts and put back into production in Russia. Over the course of a few decades, dozens of Helios lenses variations were created, the majority designed for non-photographic uses. Share your images too please.Many years ago, the Helios lens line was first born as a clone of sorts to port the legendary Zeiss Biotar lens formula into the M42 format that was used in the Soviet Union. If so let me know what lens(es) you have in the comments below as I’m looking to try out even more. Have you ever mounted older lenses with your DLSR camera? The glass creates very unique images and I can’t wait to pick up my next one.

#HELIOS LENS NIKON MOUNT 50MM MANUAL#

I’ve had such a great time with this lens that I’m going to purchase more manual focus primes. The first of many manual focus prime lenses Even at very small apertures, it tops out at f/16, the lens puts out beautiful images. The Helios 44-2 lens is fast with the f/2 aperture, weighs next to nothing, and was incredibly inexpensive at less than $50 including shipping. I’m really in love with this Helios 44-2 lens. Success! Apparently you need a pretty good distance in the background so the little light spots and details can register into that swirl shape. I aimed up at a birdhouse about 8 feet away, which conveniently had a cute little toad in the lower peep hole and took the shot. It seems that you need some decent distance from your subject, and you need some background that can fall into swirly bokeh in the distance. Meet the Helios 44-2 58mm f/2 LensĬan you start to see the swirl shape in the background? This photo showed me I’m getting closer. Well, this “defect” looked really cool to me and I wanted to incorporate it into my lens collection. I did some quick digging and found out this was called “swirly bokeh” and certain vintage lenses created this effect through a manufacturing defect. It was awesome and unlike anything I had ever seen! I was looking through photos on Flickr and noticed a few images in which the bokeh appeared to be swirling in a circular pattern.

I really enjoy having big apertures available for low light so I started looking for another prime lens. It’s a great lens but after taking it out a few times, I concluded it wasn’t for me. The 24-70mm and adapter are super heavy and ridiculously front-heavy. The 55mm shoots like a dream and is insanely light-weight. I started off with a Sony 55mm f/1.8 and a 24-70mm f/2.8 lens that requires a Sony adapter. You can see how I used it in my last article: when to trick your camera for the perfect exposure.

#HELIOS LENS NIKON MOUNT 50MM FULL#

A friend convinced me that having small-form, full frame camera would be an entire different way of shooting. I recently bought a Sony A7 to compliment my Canon 6D DSLR.

Helios lens nikon mount 50mm