Colors can be very intense, in particular using old film. Build quality is very solid, the lens will last for centuries. Resolution is very good at F8 and still good at F2 in the center, but everything gets fairly dreamy wide open. Flaring and ghosting can be strong if shot against the light. There is a bit of swirly bokeh but not as much as the earlier version of this lens like the 44-2 version. Impressions & more high-res image samples with a film camera:īokeh is dreamy and feels more like an F1.4 than F2. It turns into a portrait lens fov on the crop sensors. Sharpness: 9 Aberrations: 6 Bokeh: 9 Handling: 8 Value: 10 Camera Used: Fuji XM1, Olympus EPL5, Film cameraīought this lens some months ago and used it on a film camera (35mm), a Fuji-crop and a M4/3 camera. High resolution, great value, dreamy bokeh
If it all came down to a horse race, all of these lenses would be at the photo-finish. I have other normal lenses probably as sharp as this one. It's my go-to lens whenever I need sharpness on near objects. It is an amazing lens no wonder the Russians manufactured a lot of helios 44, more than any known lens in the whole world.
Aberrations? I pick my shots the best I can which is probably the reason I haven't encountered those issues.Īt the going price, there is no reason why every photographer should not have one of these in the bag. The lens is a little bit on the cool side, as sometimes I needed to add a little bit of warmth in pp. Sometimes its bokeh appears like a master's strokes in a classic impressionist painting. Just find some foliage and use it as background and voila! Swirly bokeh. Of course this lens is known for its famous swirly bokeh, which is the main reason I purchased it. It was snapped away as soon as I published the ad. In this photo I used it to shoot (and sell) my Auto Sears/ Sekor SX 55mm f/1.4. Stopped down, it's surgical and yields a rich amount of details. It's my favorite lens not only for portraits but for product shoots as well. I may have cropped this one because closest focussing distance is about a foot and a half. In this photo you can count and single out every stamen in this cut-flower gerbera. Otherwise if you fine-tune your focus to the edge or corners of your composition, then you will find this lens still very sharp.
And at wide-open depth of field is very thin and very distance-sensitive. Some people see a softness at the edges but that's because the edges of a photo are at a greater distance to the lens than at the center where focus is usually aimed. Very sharp wide open across the frame, at least on aps-c. I was surprised to see a sharpness rating of 8.4 (at the time i wrote this) for this lens because this is my sharpest lens so far.
Sharpness: 9 Aberrations: 9 Bokeh: 9 Handling: 9 Value: 9 Camera Used: Canon 600d Very sharp across the board, at least on aps-c, unique bokeh Most incarnations of this helios don't have an A-M switch, so either "mod" the lens so it stops down (as described, for example, in this thread), or use an M42-PK adapter that holds the auto pin in eg this one. The name of Helios lenses are usually writen as Helios-44X-N, where X -is the index of lens mount (M for m42 thread, K for Pentax K bayonet, Д for Zenit-D bayonet) and N is a optical resolution index 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 (the higher number the higher is an optical resolution of lens)." - camerapedia. A fast 6-element anastigmat, it was available in both single-coated and multi-coated versions. Based on the lens Biotar 2 / 58, at the beginning was called ".
#Helios 44 2 bokeh series#
"Helios-44 is a series of standard lenses for SLR cameras, produced in Soviet Union by KMZ, MMZ, Jupiter from 1958 till 1992 (2001?) and it is considered to be one of most mass produced lenses in the world.
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