Helios 44-2 58 mm f/ 2 Lens

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Optical design

Format: 35mm SLR

Type: Prime lens

Focusing: Manual Focus (MF)

Lens mounts: M42

First year of production: 1950

Last year of production: 1990

Optical design: 6 elements in 4 groups

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Photos (78)

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Owners (223)

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Average price: $50

Specifications:

Focal length	Max. aperture	Min. aperture	Blades	Min. Focus (m.)	Filter Ø (mm.)	Weight (gr/oz)	Length (mm/in)
58mm	f/2.0	f/16	8	0.5	49	230/8,1	57/2,2

Additional information:

The Helios 44-2 58 mm f/ 2 (Russian: "Гелиос") is a fast standard lens with a single coating. This lens was developed basing on Biotar 2/58 (Carl Zeiss Jena) lens.

This was one of the most spreaded lens that were released for a "ZENIT-E" camera. Helios 44-2 58/2 has a thread mount M42x1. Aperture control is manual with a pre-adjustment ring. In spite of it's popularity and low cost Helios 44-2 58/2 provides very vivid, contrasting and enough sharp images.

Images taken with this lens are airy and have a nice and a little bit swirly bokeh.

Resolution by the lens technical passport: 38/20 lp/mm

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Posted by: Yarkii Date of publication: 05.02.2011

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Photos taken with this lens Helios 44-2 58 mm f/ 2 :

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Beetle bokeh
Autor: Foto Klok

6019

Spring Flowers Blue
Autor: SharkDD

1499

Katia helios
Autor: Antonio Pedroni

4.83

6588

New sailor
Autor: Krigos

4.57

3308

Mechanical quality	3.73	63
Optical quality	3.85	63
Usability	3.75	62
Pricing / Value	4.69	63
Bokeh	4.71	61
Overall lens rating	4.15

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Owner reviews: Helios 44-2 58 mm f/ 2

gheed 03.02.2016 11:25:00

Period of use: 6 months

Strengths:

- Good build quality
- Smooth focus operation
- Very interesting Bokeh effect
- Great for portraits
- Easy to disassemble, clean and put back together

Weaknesses:

- Unintuitive apparture selection mechanism
- No click for selection of apperture
- Not sharp compared with modern standards
- Heavy for a 58mm f/2 lens by todays standard

Comments:

I love this lense. And taking into account the price; ~25 Euro on Ebay, its a superb performer with interesting effects. I use it with an adapter on a micro four thirds body making it a 116mm full frame equivalent. This is therefor my go to portrait lens.

After purchase I disassembled the lens and cleaned and lubricated all moving parts. This was easy and intuative.

I recommend this lens!

/Gheed

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	Helios-44-2 58mm 50mm f/2 USSR biotar portrait lens M42 dslr Pentax Canon Sony Price: 50$. (~0.63$) Seller: SharkDD Reputation: 11 (11/~0/0)