Portrait - Helios 77M-4

Borges · Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 646 Location: Moers, Germany

Not sure about it. The deadly sin, I know, NEVER shoot kids from above. But I think it's worth posting because there are not so much examples of results from the Helios 77M-4 50mm in the net.

And now something completely different, taken a few seconds earlier. The original is razorsharp in the center (f4). Taken from raw without modification, only slight usm after resizing:

Attila · Expire: 2025-11-18

First one is a very good capture ! Congratulation!

Jigt · Joined: 16 Mar 2007 Posts: 412 Location: Belgium

Both splendid!!

You see that rules (never kids from above) are there to be broken.

Like the colour and bokeh of the second one!!

Guido

Orio · Expire: 2012-12-04

Michael it's just a lovely portrait (and out-of-ordinary beautiful child!), perfectly focused, metered, and executed.

You know, I could never understand that rule. A photo is good when it's good, not because someone else decided that you have to be tall like a child to take good photographs of a child.

What lens is that Helios? I never heard of it, and I thought I heard of them all. Do you have a photo of it? What mount is it?

LucisPictor · Expire: 2013-12-03

Borges · Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 646 Location: Moers, Germany

Orio · Expire: 2012-12-04

Thanks. I must remember to add your site to the links section.

Man, that lens is sharp. I look at the flies on the horse's head!

And so it's Vologda, eh? It seems to have been a very fine factory. The Jupiter-21M comes from there, and it's a magic lens.
Also my copy of Mir-1B is Vologda (I don't know if it was build by other factories also)