![]() 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. 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. Get the best deals on Helios 50mm Focal M42 Camera Lenses when you shop the largest online selection at. 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. A friend convinced me that having small-form, full frame camera would be an entire different way of shooting. ![]() In this country good Zenit E's can be found really cheap at car boot sales, I guess Garage sales in the US.I recently bought a Sony A7 to compliment my Canon 6D DSLR. My current Helios was on another dealers stall out of interest I asked the price, he picked it up and pressed teh aperture pin, then said a price£40 or £50 then said oh it's got a sticky aperture £5, actually it's fine A dealer who has a stall (and a shop as well as onine store) had a Praktina FX and Biotar on his web site, I'd seen it at a previous fair but by then had checked out typical copleted sales prices so knew it was a bargain, So at the camera fair I go to Helios lenses are often f50-£60 and many aren't in the best condition. The reality was I had a really nice Praktina with a Tessar, wanted a Helios 44 for a project but they are getting expensive dealers are buying cheap Zenit Es then selling the lenses for far more than the complete camears, bodies get scrapped. Th early lenses for Praktinas are pre-set, my two lenses are semi-auto, you pre-cock the lens which opens to full aperture then it stops down automatically on the first pressure of the shutter release which works well.
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