7/1/2023 0 Comments Helios lens india![]() ![]() Usually, almost all Soviet optics literally smells of old age. Finding a copy in good condition is getting harder and harder. The age of optics also had a very bad effect on the quality of products that have come down to us.The same thing happens with lenses in variants for the Contax-Kiev RF mount. The problem is that all the lenses of the “Automatic” series cannot be adapted to modern cameras in a simple way. A particular example – lenses of the AUTOMAT series are sold under the guise of ordinary lenses. Often attackers take advantage of this and give out one lens after another. It is extremely difficult for the end user to understand the “zoo” of Soviet lenses. There are more than 20 versions of the same Helios-81N. For example, there are more than 50 different versions of Helios-44. The difficulty of identifying a particular lens.First of all, this is aperture sticking, oil on the aperture blades, aperture blades falling out, focus ring sticking and poor lens assembly tolerances. So weak that after just 100 frames they can start to have serious mechanical problems. Many Soviet lenses are very weak mechanically. The mass character of optics had a very bad effect on its quality.In general, I consider Soviet optics to be very weak. It must be clearly and strictly understood that Soviet lenses received a second life due to the appearance of inexpensive digital SLR and mirrorless cameras, as well as thanks to the enthusiasm of many amateur photographers. It is about some of these popular solutions that I will write here. Mass Soviet optics and optics of the countries of the former CIS are most often associated with full-frame (narrow format) SLR lenses. Optics of different factories, years of production and directions (for example, for export).Military and civil, technical optics (for example, for projectors, enlargers, overhead projectors, etc.).For SLR and rangefinder (mirrorless) cameras.But the very wording of such an article is abstract. ![]() I was asked to write an article about the five best and worst Soviet lenses. My name is Arkady Shapoval and I have passed through my hands an incredibly large number of various Soviet optics. This is the author of the popular resource. I entrusted the writing of an article about Soviet optics to a person who understands this issue better than me, so further narration will take place on his behalf. Despite the fact that the production equipment for the production of optics initially went to the Soviet Union during the property division by the allies of Nazi Germany, the lower level of production culture in the USSR and not all the achievements of the Germans were used properly, which negatively affected both the optical properties of Soviet lenses and their designs. Hucksters in the secondary market raise prices for high-quality Soviet lenses, so it’s not a fact that you will save money in this way.All Soviet lenses have passport sharpness, which was designed for full-frame film cameras, and therefore the sharpness of all Soviet lenses is not enough for the resolution of the digital sensor of modern not only cropped (APS-C or micro 4/3) cameras, but even full-frame digital cameras with a sensor resolution of 20 MP or higher.Therefore, with such a lens, you will either have to always shoot with an open aperture or lock (or reverse) the auto aperture control lever. Some old lenses designed for film cameras are equipped with aperture control levers (the so-called “automatic” or “jump”) and not all Soviet lenses have a switch that disables automatic aperture control.The lenses of old optical elements may be contaminated with engine oil or fungus, and such contamination may not be noticeable when buying a Soviet lens.You will have to focus manually, so if your camera does not have manual focus assistants such as focus picking or a focus area magnifier, then many of your pictures, especially at first, will go to waste.You will have to buy an adapter with a corrective lens, which will worsen the optical properties of the lens. It is difficult to use manual Soviet optics with SLR digital cameras, since the lenses of Soviet cameras were designed for a smaller segment – the distance from the rear lens to the light sensor.And here there is a temptation to buy a Soviet lens on the secondary market, which seems to cost a little and the bokeh of such lenses is even more interesting than that of modern counterparts.Īnd if you plan to choose a Soviet lens to use it with a modern digital camera, then you need to keep in mind the following nuances (this is in addition to the need to purchase the appropriate adapter): As usual beginners have no money for such purchase. After buying a SLR or mirrorless digital camera with a kit lens that has mediocre optical performance many people think about purchasing their first non-complete lens in order to get that notorious bokeh (background blur). ![]()
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