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Nepalese Smoking Hat

06 May 2024 1 217
I bought a Zenit-E to get the Helios-44 lens which was with it. This is the original lens that the Soviets copied from the Carl Zeiss Jena Biotar 58mm f/2. It's a pre-set lens and takes a bit of getting used to. Received wisdom is to shoot it wide open at f/2 for the distinctive bokeh, but the contrast suffers when you do this. At f/5.6 it becomes a nicer lens to use. The Helios-44 was on a Fujifilm X-E1 camera set at 3200 ISO and 1/160th shutter. The lens was set at f/5.6.