Hey everyone, I'm Alex, an amateur photographer from Perth, Western Australia. This channel is dedicated to exploring a world of lost treasures - the world of Soviet lenses. We'll take a look beyond the Helios-44 and back to a time where the latest & greatest optics didn't worry about milliseconds of faster autofocus. A time of post-war reprisals, mathematical genius, and Soviet ingenuity.
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What is the max ISO the VIVO x100 Pro can shoot in in lowlight video? Like for example on the Xiaomi 14 Ultra I in the main camera app, Pro modus (4k & 1080p) I can go up to ISO 32.000 with Auto exposure and manual shutter can go to 1/8 sec. Am still doubting if I want to make the jump to the Vivo x100 Pro as I am planning to shoot video often in lowlight, (dynamic range isn't off such big importance for me, but the max ISO/exposure in lowlight video is.) Thx in advance.
Goooday ya buddy ruski
Does it have more swirly bokeh than the 44-2?
I purchased this lens 2 weeks ago and I love it , definitely is a keeper
I found my dad's old Kiev 19 and attached this lens to my Nikon D5300, amazing lens, the bokeh is fantastic, sharpness is amazing and it's built like a tank, real piece of photography magic
@@zk96 Nice! It really is a great lens
Саша, спасибо за обзор! 👍 Нашёл его после того, как приобрёл эту линзу вчера. Не пробовал померять её радиацию дозиметром? Говорят, что lanthanum там использовался, но вроде бы его радиация чисто номинальная. Было бы интересно узнать. И Эру 6М не мешало бы померять. Достоверная информация отсутствует, поэтому тебе и карты в руки! ❤️👍😅 Удачи! PS: майка со знаком качества - бомба! 😋 Alex, thanks for the review! 👍 I found it after I purchased this lens yesterday. Have you tried measuring its radiation level with a dosimeter? They say that lanthanum was used in its glass, but it seems that its radiation is purely nominal. It would be interesting to know. And it wouldn’t hurt to measure Era 6M for radiation level. There is no reliable information on that, so you have a first hand in this pile of cards! ❤️👍😅 Good luck! PS: a T-shirt with the Soviet quality mark is a bomb! 😋
@@numistika Спасибо 😁 Нет, у меня нет дозиметр, к сожалению. Может быть в будущем, я буду! Интересная тема, да.
@@SovietLensReviews Спасибо за ответ! Если появится и померять получится, свистни! Я на тебя подписался. 👍
Definitely not one to jump on. Get a Takumar 50/1.4 for a tenth the price. Maybe less, if you're lucky. Got an SMC version for about 80 money. One of the sharpest versions they made, and my sharpest lens by far. Even wide open, it would put up a battle for that Era stopped down. It's my only Japanese lens in a wave of Soviet lenses. But one that gets almost as much love as my Helios.
Great review! Thanks. The only problem seems to be to get hold on one as I can't find any of these lenses for sale on the usual platforms. Any hints where I could get one?
Did you try reversing the front glass element? That should spice it up a bit
Thanks. Great video and information. I have the x100 Ultra, installed Motion Cam pro, but can't find the 85mm and 16mm lens setting. Only the 24mm is available. Any settings I need to change? Thanks
@@s7654r Weird, it should be right there on the left
Although I don't have the Ultra, may be an issue with that
Soviet lenses were assembled with a hammer and obscene words. Because of this, there are so many defective products. The longer you use the lens, the more defects you find. It's good that you don't disassemble them for spare parts. But I also partly like them. It is relatively inexpensive. And a lot of types of Soviet lenses. I'm sure they were all copied from one or more other lenses.
Have you tried making cinematic portrait video uaingthe back camera? How's its performance?
Looks good, but I have not yet found a purchasing alternative out here in Europe.
How do you fit that filter step-up ring on the Vivo, is there a filter thread on the edge of that big round island or ... ?
The Pentax A series came about 5 years AFTER the M series, and, in general, that's the series that added in more plastic construction.
Many thanks
I advise you to take a new modification made in Ukraine 90-2000s. Arsat 50mm f2. This is a Modified 81 from the same factory.
Did they change it at all or was it just a rebrand? Either way, will look into, thanks.
@@SovietLensReviews Here are the lens differences: 1. Arsat H 1: 2 50mm has a rubberized focus ring, MS Helios-81H 2/50 has a metal focus ring 2. Arsat H 1: 2 50mm is an AI lens for Nikon cameras. MS Helios-81H 2/50 is something remotely reminiscent of an AI lens. 3. The lenses have different diaphragm blacking. At Arsat H 1: 2 50mm aperture blades are blackened much better than MS Helios-81H 2/50. Diaphragm blackening affects the reflection of light when shooting on closed diaphragms. 4. Different years of release. Logical that the lenses Arsat H 1: 2 50mm newer, which increases the chances of their normal preservation.
@@Kyraleks1 Interesting, thank you!
i have this lens, but I can only use if it lock only f22 on D3300
Interesting that it was still single coated in 1985.
Yeah, a puzzling decision. It's not like KMZ lacked the ability to multi-coat optics by this stage.
I have both tair 11a in mint condition and jupiter 37a mc slightly used but serviced. Prefer 37a most of the time. It’s smaller, sharper, and consistent across the frame. But i see someone may prefer tair for a portrait work for its wider aperture and creamy bokeh although jupiter has wonderfull bokeh even with its f3.5 aperture. Not much difference. Jupiter is a Sonar evolved design lens.
Agreed, if I reach for a 135mm in the future it will be the Jupiter 37A as well.
Пора покупать Таир-11А, ребята!
Конечно!
По-русски базарь Вась
Спасибо за видео
Спасибо, thanks for watching
Terrible audio
Whether SLR play the moron, whether SLR is one of the best YT moron.
Spectacular lens! Thanks for the review, I love it
How are you able to avoid the terrible rolling shutter on the telephoto lenses shooing on Motioncam? There is no option to turn on digital stabilization from ISP, unlike Mcpro24fps.
I didn't see any? 4:39 good example, that was shot on the 100mm lens I'm pretty sure, and the train has almost no rolling shutter.
The old school single coatings are a double edged sword. I think they add boatloads of character on the silver Mir-1 37mm. On the other hand, I think the biotar optical design is particularly vulnerable to veiling flare and so that coating is not so fun on the helios 44. Likewise on the Helios 40, which has the worst contrast and flare resistance of any lens I've ever used and would really benefit from multicoating (the new production ones have it... for $600)
What do you think about Jupiter 8 50mm f2?
I haven't reviewed it yet, but from most accounts it's quite unremarkable.
Just bought one in a market for €10 - used it on my Sony A7iii with an Urth M42 / E adapter and it's fantastic. The 12 aperture blades give images the nicest bokeh. It will be a permanent fixture in my camera bag. I think the f3.5 aperture puts off the 'wide open' shooters but that's not a problem for how I shoot pics. Didn't get a hood with it, so I'll be searching for one of those now.
keep these videos coming please! more into pro picture mode maybe or astrophotography
really loved your previous video, hardly any videos out there that dicussed the camera of this phone in that detail. You made me happy about my purchase, thanks!
At 20:13, I was guessing the left one must have been professional camera cause it looked better to my eye, to my surprise it was vivo lol
I was in awe at the change in sharpness with telephoto lens, Zeiss really brought it in with vivo. So happy with my purchase.
When using Macro mode, does it switch to the ultra wide lens then crops to capture the image or it uses the main lens? Also, does it support the horizontal stabilization levelling in 1080p as it used to do it X90 Pro plus?
False. I was owner of this lens. Fully shit.
nice compact guide!
Great video, sub'ed 👍
Thanks for sharing. Great 10 bit video. Am considering the Vivo 100 Ultra. Am wondering if that has 10 bit video as well.
I serviced many samples of this lens and what impresses is how thin the glass elements are and there is just 5 of them. If you realize that less glass is better, Pentax did a masterful job designing this entry level lens. The design and mechanics of this F2 is fantastic, helicoids and apertures run reliably smooth after 40+ years of use. Of all entry level nifty 50s, this one ranks HIGH in my book.
Absolutely. A very high quality lens in all aspects.
Definitely getting the mir 24
Mirror in Russian is "zerkalo", not what you are saying. "Menisk" is a term for lens which is either double concave or concave-convex. Particularly in this lens there are concave-convex lens, correcting lens, concave spherical mirror and convex mirror.
Yes, my Russian wasn't very good when I made this review. I meant to say зеркальный, an adjective form of зеркало)
Hi Thank you your video! Does your Global version comes with Google Suite? Will like to buy one.
It comes with all the Google apps yes
Hey, mate! Love your channel, and great review. I live in Vietnam and because of the old Comintern connection, there's plenty of cheap old Soviet glass here. I'm thinking of dropping for a MIR 20M, and I know you did a review on this one, but can't find it on your channel now. Did you take it down? Or am I hallucinating...Also, do you know of anyone who's done a DIY YT vid on how to declick this one? (I mean apart from sending it it Ironglass, there has to be an easy way...maybe?). my 'Soviet lens lady' also has a copy of your 20-N- and I like that it has that screw on from filter thing. The price difference is like $US25 between it and the 20M. Which would you recommend? Again thanks for your informative channel- and thanks for getting me addicted, too (I think).
Thanks! The Mir-20N (note: not M, I have the N variant which is the same optically) review is still up here if you look, yep. Don't know of anyone who has done a declicking video unfortunately. If there's only US$25 in it, assuming the same condition, go for the M because it holds more resale value.
@@SovietLensReviews thanks for the reply! I'll get the M, as you advise, and keep looking for some way to declick it- Cheers!
@@SovietLensReviews I just found your review I thought was on the 20M, but actually it was on the 47K. My bad, sorry! I think it was the little kit of 3 filters that confused me. Ah, incidentally, my supplier can declick the 20M, but said it's better not to, coz it will affect the resale vale. Next mission- find someone who can replace the glass in the UV filter with a decent circle of 4-6stop ND glass. That'll fix my video needs. Cheers again, mate!.
very very cool but not enough depth of field. any way to create it?
Using a full frame camera instead? :D
@@SovietLensReviews true
Hiya, pls does NFC and android auto work on this variant?
Yep!
I’ve heard vivo doesn’t allow ois support for 3rd party apps, is it true for motioncam as well?
OIS seems to work, at least with the telephoto.
@@SovietLensReviews damn, not with the main cam?
@@SovietLensReviews What about digital stabilization? Your telephoto footage doesn't seem to have terrible rolling shutter, but you also were panning slow.
i have old olympus om lens... whats the best adapter for nikon f mount and z mount? thanks
Hi! I sent a message on Instagram,, love the channel!!!!
Hey Alex, I just ordered this lens to use with my fuji x-pro2. I don't really understand the part about the lens adapter. What would you recommend for my case or how do I figure out what works best without buying a million different adapters? I would prefer the M42 to PK combination as I do own another lens with PK mount. I could not make much use of an EOS adapter other than for the Jupiter-38.
Hey, I would say then, maybe try buying a PK to Fuji X adapter and just hoping it works. As long as the adapter that this lens first goes on doesn't have a metal ring like a normal M42-??? Adapter, then you're good. It's not easy to tell though.
@@SovietLensReviews Thanks for the reply. I didn't really understand what you meant, so I just waited for the lens to arrive. Now I can see the problem. I guess the reason why you are saying the M42 to PK combination is not optimal is the general problem with third party M42 to PK adapters; either they don't allow for focus to infinity or they are hard to remove?
@@gabriels.8256 Yeah, they are hard to remove. It's a very tricky mount to find good adapters for.
@@SovietLensReviews I found a very cheap original Asahi Pentax M42 to PK adapter. I heard they are the best. Still waiting for it to arrive though...