(not a whole lot of pp in this one either! a little bit of levels and contrast, but really nothing much. That said, for todays pile of crap images, it comes along and pulls this hat out of the bag! i suddenly forgive all its misdemeanors, and it can stay! what amazing separation, and for f2?! just wow, freaken wow. its definitely not a 'shoot what ya got' style of lens. i took it out today, and have maybe a 5-10% keeper rate. i cant pick it yet, and im not sure when i want to use it. sometimes theres a massive amount of glow in in-focus highlights, sometimes not and its suddenly sharp as nails. The bokeh is picky, sometimes it works, some time it doesnt. i want the shiny aluminium finish and beautiful machining to actually make pictures as good as it itself looks, its letting me down most of the time though Im having a real love hate relationship with this lens. sharp, creative bokeh but not crazy nor dominating, and seems to land me decent keeper rates.Īnd today (and actually the reason for this post). the helios is proving to be quite a 'reliable' lens. a bit of a push in pp, but nothing particularly hard nor selective. certainly not bad performance in really bad conditions. flare to the left of frame and through the bottom has dulled contrast and actually helps the subject in the middle to pop a little more. not so much a 1:1 copmparison, but a commentary on things worth mentioningįirstly - helios, shot straight into the sun, and kept it together. Just thought id update this with some random images from both lenses. No risk of a papercut from the sharpness in this particular pic, but I think is a great example of the look I was hoping to get from this Lens Duo. Makes a slightly crazy image, and also oozes a bit of old-school cool in polished Aluminium.Īnother shot from the biotar (tldr lens #1). Im keeping both lenses as they're both terrific examples, but for the time being, the biotar is the one mounted to the camera. That's a lot of finger-work with two kids tearing around. Issue for me with both: the focus turn is enormous. It's quite sharp in the middle wide open, but (probably due to the contrast differnce) doesn't seem as sharp as the biotar. The Helios has much nicer softer bokeh which still induces a swirl with the right background elements, but isn't quite so busy and distracting as the biotar. The contrast and colour are stronger than the Helios ootc, but it's a small Lightroom nudge to equal them out. It's very sharp in the middle wide open, vignettes and goes soft to the edges quite markedly (which doesn't bother me). the biotar swirls more and has a more distracting bokeh (what I was looking for). I was expecting the helios to be a bit softer and more vignette-y than it is.įrom my 2 lenses. And the Helios does better at being a 'generally good lens' than the biotar does. As far as I can discern, the biotar actually does 'being a biotar' better than the Helios does. I was hoping for a bit of the 'biotar craziness' out of these two lenses in order to offer something new over the voigtländer. it's the Heliosīack-story: my go-to lens in the 50s is a voigtländer 50 1.5 which renders a buttery smooth bokeh transition (plus is disturbingly sharp and quite quick to hit focus - keeper rate from the voigtländer is really good). Yup, I'd agree #2 has the smoother bokeh. the colours were dull due to the miserable day, and photos were taken around 1 hours prior to sunset, so everything was pretty drab.Įverything shot wide open at f2 on a 36Mp A7R can you see a diference? and if so, which do you like better? im calling it an even heat, though each does something a little different to the other making some shots from each clear winners.Ĭurious to see what you folks think. from my first impressions, i thought the helios was going to be the better lens and my favorite, but now im not so sure. ootc the helios has a little less contrast and color than the biotar, but with -very- minor lightroom tweaking (which i do regardless) i find them incredibly hard to distinguish. I finally had an extra M42 adapter turn up today, and despite crappy weather, i dragged the kids out down to the water and did some lens swapping on the A7RĨ pics from each lens, wont say which is which. Had 2 good turns of luck recently, and found myself holding 2 astonishingly good - and cheap - examples of a Biotar 58mm f2 silver (late 50s), and a Helios 44-2 58mm f2 (an earlier version with a serial starting with a single 0 (so: No.
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