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PostPosted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 1:23 pm    Post subject: Some Helios 40-2 Pictures Reply with quote

Thanks to Bob and VGR for some great portraits.

Thank you also for reminding me of this lens. I took it out of its bag and shot a few pictures this afternoon (all wide open, except No.5 taken at f/16):

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Cheers!

Abbazz


PostPosted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 3:25 pm    Post subject: Re: Some Helios 40-2 Pictures Reply with quote

Abbazz

thanks!

Your photos also the beautiful! Fantastical bohe, it cannot be confused...


PostPosted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 4:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I really like the second one.


PostPosted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 4:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

@Abbazz: liked both portraits, but #5 is the stunner for me. Amazing!


PostPosted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 4:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

2 and 4 are my favourites, but they're all fine shots. The only thing is I now a) desperately want this lens and b) desperately want a fraction of your talent in using it Smile


PostPosted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 6:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

#4 is great. I cant wait for my lens to stop cooking - it's been under light UV for a week now and I can still see the yellow cast. Sad Sad


patrickh


PostPosted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 10:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks to all for the kind comments. Keep the Helios-40 pictures coming.

patrickh wrote:
#4 is great. I cant wait for my lens to stop cooking - it's been under light UV for a week now and I can still see the yellow cast. Sad Sad


Think about your luck: you have a free built-in yellow filter for B&W shooting!

Cheers!

Abbazz


PostPosted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 5:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Abbazz
That's a disgustingly cheerful and practical view to take - I prefer to wallow Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy


patrickh


PostPosted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 11:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

patrickh wrote:
I cant wait for my lens to stop cooking - it's been under light UV for a week now and I can still see the yellow cast. Sad Sad


Hi Patrick, in Nov 2006 I had a very yellowed S-Tak 1.4/50 arrive and sometime around mid-December I put it on my bathroom window cill (facing South West) to cook. I know you appreciate what our weather is like here, and we had a particularly grey winter last year - weeks and weeks without any sun. And what with the short days as well, I don't think the lens received any useful sunlight until mid February at least. But, even when the sun did start to appear, nothing seemed to change for ages I got a bit despondent about it. But suddenly in late March I noticed it had got appreciably clearer, and by May the yellow had virtually disappeared and there was no cast on the pictures.

I suppose what I'm trying to say to you is, be patient. The lens has probably been kept with caps on, maybe inside a closed case, for years and years. To expect the yellow to disappear quickly is asking too much, and if it did, I would always be very worried about blocking light from it at all in future.

It's a great lens and it deserves some time to heal on its own. I'm delighted with mine now, and I'm sure you will be too when it's ready.


PostPosted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 5:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Peterq

Thanks for the encouragement. I guess I have always known it would take time, but I see these samples and want to get in there. The few shots I did manage to take were in fact encouraging. That's where digital raw is a real advantage - the ability to adjust the WB. Also I just like looking at the lens - it is almost a work of art in its beautiful aluminium body! Smile Smile

patrickh


PostPosted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 8:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wow Shocked I want this lens!


PostPosted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 1:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Helios 44 may not have the smoothest bokeh (just have a look at Orio's picture in this thread or at the first portrait of my Feb 7th post) but it has an unmistakable rendering. I love to use it wide open at minimum focusing distance to get those dreamy pictures:

1. The green wave


2. Frangipanier


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As you might have noticed, today was quite wet here in Brunei. It kind of reminded me of the British weather

Cheers!

Abbazz


PostPosted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 7:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Abbazz you know how to make a person salivate

patrickh


PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 9:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

is there a Helios 44-2 2/58?
if so, what's the verdict?


PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

VGR wrote:
Bob

Try to shot on f/1.5 Wink

OLYMPUS Е-330 + Helios-40 (85/1.5),
all f/1.5





Very nice picture !
I'd like to do the same