Helios 44 2 58mm F2 Review

The lenses bokeh is unmatched and has remarkable color retention.

Helios 44 2 58mm f2 review. If you shoot with this lens you can shoot a swirly bokeh. I use it on my bmpcc and ursa mini 4 6k and it looks amazing. It is a soviet era copy of the well regarded zeiss biotar lens formula. These lenses were manufactured between the late 1950s through the early 1990s.

I bought the m42 screwmount version hence the 44m name since i have that adapter but they made it available in many other mounts. The vintage lens i purchased so far was the pentax k mount but the helios 44 2 58mm f2 is an m42 screw mount lens. Although the production has since stopped there are still millions of them around making it a very affordable alternative. However the corners quickly fall apart in terms of contrast and resolution.

Helios 44 2 at f 2 as you can see center sharpness looks pretty good and pretty much maxes out the 24 megapixel sensor. The helios 44 58mm f2 is one of the most mass produced lenses ever. This time i will review helios 44 2 58mm f2. The lens was produced in the old soviet union by jupiter among others from 1958 till 1992 and is one of most mass produced lenses in the world.

The helios 44 and all its variants is a 58mm f 2 lens minimum aperture is f 16. The formula reappeared post war in the east german controlled carl zeiss jena plant as the carl zeiss jena 58mm f 2 and was eventually rebranded by the soviet union as the helios 44m we know today. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. The first thing that jumps out about this lens imaging characteristics isn t actually the image quality itself.

Todays blogpost is a review of the helios 44m 4 58mm f 2 lens. It s the slightly unusual focal length.