Belomo HELIOS-44 Zebra M39 M42 mount for Zenit Pentax USSR Biotar Bokeh King

8 APERTURE BLADES BELOMO PLANT VERSION! STANDARD FOCUS HELIOS-44 58mm F2 LENS for M39 ZENIT KRISTALL START CAMERA and also for M42 ZENIT PRACTIKA PENTAX cameras with extra adapter ... or for a lot of other SLR with 42mm lens mount... and more SLR's DSLR's & MTF's via well-spread lens adapters! STANDARD FOCUS HELIOS-44-2 LENS FOR M42 ZENIT PENTAX PRAKTICA CAMERAS ... or for a lot of other SLR with 42mm lens mount... ABOUT ITEM'S ORIGIN (You can SKIP it!) HELIOS-44-2 is a standard coated lens for Soviet SLR 35 mm Zenit cameras. The lens can be fitted on the M42 Pentax cameras. First HELIOS-44 lenses were borrowed from Carl Zeiss BIOTAR lenses and issued since end of 1960s years in M39, then in M42 screw mount, and had not very good glory because were with low contrast in common... But latest versions of HELIOS-44 lens became very sharp. This famous lens was manufactured in the USSR, and features outstanding sharpness, contrast and color rendition. I saw photos taken with similar lenses several times before and I appreciated excellent pictures quality. In the main, most all Soviet and Russian lenses are exceptionally good and this one is no exception! It can be used with a lot of digital cameras with simple and inexpensive adapters. ITEM'S CONDITION: WELL-USABLE, TESTED The glass is enough clean and should bring nice images, with no any deep scratches or separations, but you will find some pieces of dust inside and some cleaning marks at front optical element. Focusing and aperture are smooth. Cosmetically the lens looks in nice condition, just examine item's photo please. I took two example photos with my Olympus 4/3 mount camera. At F2 image is smooth with fine bokeh, at F8 it is pritty sharp. All functions are available. TECHNICAL FEATURES * Brand: BelOMO. * Model: Helios-44. * Focus 58 mm. * Angle of view about 42 degrees. * Relative aperture 1:2.0 (up to 1:16 with clicks). * Additional ring for fast closing aperture from full opened to preinstalled meaning. * Mounting: M39x1mm thread mount, usual for old Soviet SLR cameras like Kristall, Zenit, Zenit-S and Zenit-3M. * Optical registration: 45.2 mm. It still 39 mm mount, but the optical registration is different from the Leica type (LTM) lenses for RF cameras. You will not receive good sharpness at infinity with genuine LTM adapters. * You'll can mount this lens to latest SLR cameras with M42 lens mount (known also as Pentax Screw Mount), same with huge quantity of lenses for old Practica, Pentax, Yashica, Cosina etc. Just apply simple M39/M42 adapter. * Mounting for modern MFT, SLR & dSLR cameras will not bring any trouble with well-spread M42 adapters. Nikon F mount users will not have infinity focus with simple adapters and M42 optics, close-up shots only will available. * Focusing from 0.5m. * Scale of distances in meters. * Filter mount M 49x0.75mm. * The lens was made in USSR at Vavilova plant at the town of Minsk. THE ITEM COMES WITH Lens #8076537 Front lens cap Rear lens cap (home-made) ABOUT PHOTOS The item pictured is the actual item for sale. You can see exactly what you are buying. SHIPPING We are more than happy to welcome any international buyers! We ship the item FREE WORLDWIDE (exclusions are exists, you can ask Me before purchase to be sure)! Item will be shipped via Russian Post service during 3 days upon receipt of your payment. Shipping time is mostly about 4-6 weeks to receive the item as Registered Air Mail package with the tracking number (or by registered and insured Air Mail parcel for heavy items), but sometimes (but not very often) it can be up to two month.