Shooting with the Zenit-C and Helios-44 58mm f2
Our national manager Annie Buckles wanted to play with a lens that had a lot of character - particularly in its bokeh. After browsing through our varied inventory of interesting lenses she settled on this KMZ 58mm f2 Helios-44 lens that was mounted to a Zenit-C SLR camera. The Zenit-C uses a proprietary version of the M39 lens mount. The thread diameter and pitch is the same, but the flange distance is distinct to this particular camera. That means that this particular Helios-44 can really only be used on the Zenit SLR system. But the 58mm f2 Helios-44 was produced in several other mounts, so it can be found outside of the Zenit system easy enough.
As expected, the camera itself was a bit finicky but worked well enough. Also as expected, the lens had tons of character. We have included a few of Annie's images with this combination - all shot on Rollei RPX 25.
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