but the results from this lens is just damn worth it!įor black and white street photography the lens is really great.
#SWIRLY BOKEH LENS NIKON MANUAL#
Which is crazy, since I’m not that good at manual focussing…. This lens has actually replaced my fujinon XF 35mm f/1.4R as my “stay-on-camera” lens.
and I mean REALLY cheap! $10 on ebay and you get a good condition lens…. A good condition lens.īecause the lens was built in such superfluous numbers they’re CHEAP…. METAL and GLASS….the USSR-way!! My copy is very smooth in the focus ring, and the aperture ring has nice clicks. And it does amazing with black and white photography. The lens is built like a tank! Seriously. For the streets I was VERY surprised at how well it is doing. Also referred to, as “Cat-eye” effect, this phenomenon gives a pronounced feeling that the background “swirls” around the center focus subject. What really surprised me though, was all the other scenarios this lens was good for! The 58mm focuslength on a APS-C sensor turns into a 87mm FOV equivalent which makes it a really nice medium tele lens. The lens has, what is referred to as optical vignetting, meaning that out of focus “bokeh-balls” becomes more elipsoid as you move away from the center of the image. The reason for buying this lens was one thing, and one thing only: The swirley bokeh effect! 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! I bought the M42 screwmount version (hence the 44m name), since I have that adapter, but they made it available in many other mounts. Todays blogpost is a review of the Helios 44m-4 58mm f/2 lens.
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