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Helios 44 58mm f2 zebra
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 3:37 pm    Post subject: Helios 44 58mm f2 zebra Reply with quote














Last edited by Attila on Tue Dec 07, 2010 4:26 pm; edited 1 time in total


PostPosted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 4:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
What nice colors!!!

It has a lot better color's rendering than my 44-3.

I have read that the chrome is the best of the helios 44s, and it seems to be.

Congrats Attila.


PostPosted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 4:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Many thanks Rino!


PostPosted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 5:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
you got to love the helios Very Happy
a very good performer


PostPosted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 10:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
A keeper indeed.
What is that camera?


PostPosted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 12:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
A stellar performer indeed!


PostPosted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 6:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
A lovely lens there Attilla, what is theyear of manufacture. My silver Helios has the SN beginning with 50.


PostPosted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 6:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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what is theyear of manufacture. My silver Helios has the SN beginning with 50.


You are aware that for the MMZ chrome Helios this means your lens was made in 1965 correct?

The zebra Helios was MMZ production also. His, I would bet, is marked with a serial beginning in 9 or 0, meaning 1969 or 1970.


PostPosted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 6:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
themoleman342 wrote:
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what is theyear of manufacture. My silver Helios has the SN beginning with 50.


You are aware that for the MMZ chrome Helios this means your lens was made in 1965 correct?

The zebra Helios was MMZ production also. His, I would bet, is marked with a serial beginning in 9 or 0, meaning 1969 or 1970.

I am now, thanks for the enlightenment on the serial numbering for year of manufacture. I'd take it that my chrome Helios 40 with SN starting 60 is 1966 manufacture then.


PostPosted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 4:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Actually in the Helios 40's case, the year of production was 1960. This is because KMZ worked on a serial system of the first two numbers being the year it was manufactured with the exception of "pre-production" batches that started with 0, 00, or 000.

The zebra Helios was only produced by MMZ. They worked on a different system with the first serial number being the year in the 60s decade (4xxxxxx - 1964, 5xxxxxx - 1965, and so on). I assumed your chrome helios 44 was MMZ because no helios was produced in 1950. Zenit prototypes did not come out until about '51.
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