Helios 58mm f2 Prime Lens

[John Mc]

Has anyone used one of these lenses? Or even own one. Seen one on Ebay and i'm kinda tempted to buy it for an Slr for My girlfriend to use to learn. Any suggestions would be great.

 

[woof woof]

I went for Minolta Rokkor and Olympus OM. Both have lenses in the 50mm type range faster than f2, cheap too.

Is there anything that attracts you to this lens in particular?

 

[Steve Smith]

They have a bit of a cult following for the bokeh they produce (the way it renders the out of focus areas).

I recently changed the mount on one from M42 to Nikon F so I could use it on my Nikon film cameras and my D3200.


Steve.

 

[John Mc]

No real reason why I want one. The whole Bokeh thing is slightly for myself. But mainly cause I have a 35mm Slr that my girlfriend wants to use to learn on. I did have a 50 1.8 but sold it, And now she's asking me to teach her I'm abit miffed I did. But I also wanted it manual so she learned how to rely on her own eyes rather than AF.