:: Author Message no-X Joined: 19 Jul 2008 Posts: 2499 Location: Budejky, Czech Republic Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 9:18 pm Post subject: Complete list of Helios lenses - getting closer no-X wrote: As promised, here is my actual list of Soviet Helios lenses. Purpose of this thread is to map entire product range of Soviet Helios lenses with direction on Helios-44 series. If you have some SLR Helios lenses, which are not pictured or mentioned, you can help by sharing this info: • lens name - e.g. Helios-44, Helios 44-3.

12773 z r: 4x5 Polaroid model 550 film holder (for 4x5 film). In excellent condition: exc++/m-£29: PHOTO: 13559: 4x5 Sinar Binocular Reflex viewfinder, use on.

• labeling - e.g. '2/58' or '5,8cm'. • special symbols - e.g. • serial number in exact form (last characters can be replaced by xxx): N°000xxx, N00xxx, N70xxx, 7812xxx etc.

• number of aperture blades - typically 6, 8 or 13 • system - M39, M42. • optinal: two or three pictures of the lens showing manufacturers ring and look of the lens body Thanks! ================================== forum links: • Helios 40 / 40-2 links: • photos: • • • • • (Bob) • • • • • • • • • info: • • • • hoods • • • • Helios 44 links: • • • • • Helios 44-2 links: • • • • • • Helios 44-3 links: • • • • Helios 77M / 77M-4 links: • ================================== Earliest Helios lenses lacked the numbering scheme. Most of them were designed for motion-picture cameras and offered very high speed. Expire: 2013-11-18 Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 7:12 am Post subject: martinsmith99 wrote: Great work!

Thanks for sharing and I'll keep this bookmarked. _________________ Martin - Poolhall Joined: 25 Feb 2008 Posts: 1311 Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 7:59 am Post subject: Poolhall wrote: There is also the Helios 77-K 4 of which I have an example, - K mount version of 77-m 4, mine is Valdai made and the serial is 9112490. It came with a Zenit AM2 serial 95004043 the four year difference in serials is unusual but its in the passport and documentation for the camera Last edited by Poolhall on Thu Mar 11, 2010 8:06 am; edited 1 time in total Rolf Joined: 02 May 2009 Posts: 4103 Location: NRW/Germany. Expire: 2012-12-27 Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 11:15 am Post subject: pich900 wrote: torbod wrote: no-X wrote: torbod: is your silver Helios 13-bladed? --- Yes the silver one has 13 blades, and it is a M39 thread on it. (The Black one has 6) /T Mine is a black one and has 8 blades. (Helios-44-2_ 2/) dimitrygo Joined: 01 Apr 2009 Posts: 567 Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 11:48 am Post subject: Re: Complete list of Helios lenses - getting closer dimitrygo wrote: no-X wrote: As promised, here is my actual list of Soviet Helios lenses.

Hi On this page - - there are 2 versions you don't have in your list: 1. Silver Helios-44 - this version has a different aperture mechanism 2. MC Helios 44-3M Also there are Helios 44M made by JOV: [/img] Hari Joined: 29 Nov 2009 Posts: 1801.

Contents • • • • • Details [ ] The Takumar designation was used on lenses designed for Asahi's 35 mm cameras, 6×7 cameras, and for other purposes too. • Takumar lenses were made in M37 screwmount for the original Asahiflex cameras and continued into the M42 period. • Auto-Takumar lenses were a type of preset lens. The user selected an aperture then engaged a lever to energise the stopping-down mechanism. The camera would then trip this mechanism when the shutter was fired. • Super-Takumar lenses featured a[n improved] form of (to [reduce] ) and a more sophisticated stopping-down mechanism. There was a switch on the lens to select 'Auto' or 'Manual' modes.

In manual mode, the lens would always be in the selected aperture. In Auto mode, the lens would remain wide open (at maximum aperture) until a pin on the rear of the lens was pushed in. This pin would be automatically pushed in by the camera when the shutter was tripped. • Super-Multi-Coated (later SMC) Takumar. These lenses introduced Asahi's lens multi-coating process [to further reduce reflections and flare]. Download Uc Browser For Java 320x240. They also introduced a lug on the rear of the lens which moved with the aperture selected. When used with a camera body which could read the lug, this enabled the use of open-aperture metering.

Examples of such cameras are Asahi's Spotmatic F and the ES/ESII. These SMC-Takumar M42 thread mount lenses included: 15/3.5 rectilinear ultra-wide angle, 17/4 full-frame fisheye, 20/4.5, 24/3.5, 28/3.5, 35/2.8, 50/1.4, 50/4 macro, 55/1.8, 55/2, 85/1. Instaget Pro - Cracked (Instagram Like Bot) more. 8, 100/4 macro, 105/2.8, 135/2.5, 135/3.5, 200/4, 300/4, 400/5.6, 500/4.5, 1000/8. The Takumar series of lenses has an excellent reputation which approaches a cult-like following among some users. [ ] They assert these are the best series of photographic lenses ever produced because: [ ] - At the time, Japanese industry had a pride-driven, some would say fanatical dedication to producing the absolute best quality in the world.

- The lenses were designed for professional durability, quality and performance. - Their performance especially with black and white film is extraordinary; photographs have a crisp, soulful, artistic quality usually attributed to the much more expensive West German-made and lenses. - The (originally created by, but sometimes also referred to as Pentax screw mount, or universal screw mount, or TM for thread mount) was widely used among many manufacturers and was also easily mated to other camera mounts with simple adapters, making these lenses widely used and appreciated. - Japanese technical expertise and production quality rose rapidly to reach world-class levels in the 1970s, several years before their economy, currency and marketing ability caught up, making these lenses underrecognized and undervalued even until the present. - Dedicated fanatics are convinced these lenses equal or surpass Zeiss lenses in every category except perhaps marketing prowess and mystique.

Pentax resurrected the Takumar name in the 1980s and 1990s for a budget line of zoom and prime lenses that lacked the Pentax 'Super Multi-Coating' anti-reflective coating that reduces lens flare. These lenses are marked 'Takumar (Bayonet)' or 'Takumar-F' to distinguish them from the older screw-mount Takumar lenses. Non-Asahi cameras with Asahi lenses branded Takumar include the Suzuki Press Van and two versions of the Takane Mine Six. Gallery [ ] •. • (in Japanese) Niimi Kahee (新見嘉兵衛), Kamera-mei no gogen sanpo (カメラ名の語源散歩, Strolls in the etymology of camera names), 2nd ed. (Tokyo: Shashin Kōgyō Shuppansha, 2002;, p.18 • Who Was Takuma Kajiwara?; • Pentax Lens Series overview; • Suzuki Press Van: Shōwa 10–40nen kōkoku ni miru kokusan kamera no rekishi, items 795–6; (in Japanese). Takane Mine Six: Shōwa 10–40nen kōkoku ni miru kokusan kamera no rekishi, items 1619, 1621.

• (in Japanese) editorial staff. Shōwa 10–40nen kōkoku ni miru kokusan kamera no rekishi (昭和10〜40年広告にみる国産カメラの歴史, Japanese camera history as seen in advertisements, 1935–1965). Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1994.. External links [ ] Wikimedia Commons has media related to. • • at Pentaxforums.com.