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The image seems to be dissolving gently, I love that effect. Plus it's giving you a thumbs up ssignal.
Nice soft effect from the Helios, and gentle colour. I thought at first you'd used a Lensbaby.
We had one of these lenses on my wife's Zenit-E (bought while we we were in Moscow in 1974. I don't remember it ever being this soft, though the colours were quite cold compared with my Spotmatic with Takumar 50mm . Unfortunately I can't find it now, but I know it was not thrown away, so I'm hoping it will turn up one day. We do have the tiny Industar 50mm/f3.5. that was supplied with the camera, Ive no idea of its performanxce a we never used it.
james
We had one of these lenses on my wife's Zenit-E (bought while we we were in Moscow in 1974. I don't remember it ever being this soft, though the colours were quite cold compared with my Spotmatic with Takumar 50mm . Unfortunately I can't find it now, but I know it was not thrown away, so I'm hoping it will turn up one day. We do have the tiny Industar 50mm/f3.5. that was supplied with the camera, Ive no idea of its performanxce a we never used it.
james
Excellent effect ..Nice work
David
David
For clarity (or not!)...
This was a Helios with the front element reversed, as explained in THIS BLOG, and the use on a Nikon is HERE.
It's a simple procedure, once you have the special watchmaker's wrench, £12 on eBay. I'm happy to do the operation for anyone with a Helios, in return for return postage (paid to me) and a donation to Oxfam (send me the receipt). However - not all Helios lenses are equal, and later ones don't have enough spare thread in the mount to allow the retaining ring to engage over a back-to-front front element, as I think the blog explains.
Without the reversal, a Helios is a moderately OK long standard lens (58mm instead of 50mm): once the element's turned round, it is very Lensbaby-like, with strong falloff away from the centre that varies inversely with stopping down. At a rough guess, this was at f/4-f/8 or thereabouts. It's hard to read the aperture because of the preset mechanism and two aperture rings.
This was a Helios with the front element reversed, as explained in THIS BLOG, and the use on a Nikon is HERE.
It's a simple procedure, once you have the special watchmaker's wrench, £12 on eBay. I'm happy to do the operation for anyone with a Helios, in return for return postage (paid to me) and a donation to Oxfam (send me the receipt). However - not all Helios lenses are equal, and later ones don't have enough spare thread in the mount to allow the retaining ring to engage over a back-to-front front element, as I think the blog explains.
Without the reversal, a Helios is a moderately OK long standard lens (58mm instead of 50mm): once the element's turned round, it is very Lensbaby-like, with strong falloff away from the centre that varies inversely with stopping down. At a rough guess, this was at f/4-f/8 or thereabouts. It's hard to read the aperture because of the preset mechanism and two aperture rings.
Thanks all.
John, I set the aperture to F16-F2 on the outer ring, then I used the inner ring to adjust the aperture. Live view proved useful
I think that was the instruction, hope I got it right.
A good explanation of the reversal operation, I understood it when we spoke but explain it....nah
John, I set the aperture to F16-F2 on the outer ring, then I used the inner ring to adjust the aperture. Live view proved useful
I think that was the instruction, hope I got it right.A good explanation of the reversal operation, I understood it when we spoke but explain it....nah
Well done for giving it a go. I bought one of these lenses once but fast sold it on because I just couldn't focus the thing. I bought it because I'd seen some groovy images of flowers with wonderful bokeh and 'special effects'. I'm sure you will treat us to similar soon?!
Most pleasing image,lovely drop of in clarity, reminds me a little of vaseline on the lens. My, we did mistreat our gear in years past 
David
David
Lovely soft effect...Lin
Well, all this technical talk flies straight over my head, but I will say the effect, however it is achieved, is very pleasing indeed. More, please, MJ!
Love your still life photography Janet - Terrific
