Helios-40 1.5/85 - First trial

[Olivier]

HAPPY NEW YEAR !
This is the first trial I made yesterday with my "brand new" Helios-40 alu from 1963.

Shot handheld wide open (click on the pic)

EOS 40D | 85mm | f:1.5 | 1/50s | Iso 200

You know what, I'm happy.
Cheers.

[Attila]

One of my all time favorite ! Congrats!

[tobbsman]

Happy New Year Olivier !


Yes, you can be happy with the lens, .. looks very promising!

Cheers
Tobias

[patrickh]

Nice Olivier. That Helios takes some getting used to, but it can reward with some ultra sharp results and unique OOF



patrickh

[Olivier]

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[andyw]

I think Helios are very underrated and still very cheap.

I must get a few.

Enjoy your new lens.

[kds315*]

Looks very promising to me, too Olivier.
I only have the newer black one...

[trifox]

wow - ! this is a great lens ..

tf

[Olivier]

Thank you all.

Andy, Helios are generally cheap but this one not really.
Its qualities are now well known...

[andyw]

I think the days of really cheap lenses are over unless you can find them in Charity shops or at boot fairs. In my local town i went round asking but the reply was that they already had people that go round regularly asking for lenses and old cameras.