The Best Old Russian Lenses for Today's Cameras | Photography 101
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Jupiter-12 35mm M39
Jupiter 8 (50mm f 2) M39: ebay.to/2qXjwAr
Jupiter 8 Contax mount - ebay.to/2rB57fW
Industar 61 M39 (55mm f 2.8) - ebay.to/2rBf794
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I don't really know much about photography but I found this pretty interesting... Especially when Logan explained how they would work on different sensors. Neat!
same! the more niche aspects of photography are really fascinating
I have 2 helios 44 and just got a Industar 50 3.5. I'm still hunting for a Jupiter 9. Great video , now I have more to track down.
Jupiter 9 lenses are all over the place. Just Google them or search on eBay. I bought 2 on eBay.
Jim
For crop sensors like MFT you can get focal reducers with a lens in the adapter that squeezes the image onto the sensor and removes crop factor. You get the original focal length plus an extra f stop.
I use the Helios on the original Zenit, and it has produced some of my favourite images.
Hell yeah, i love these photography videos
I've got a few russian lenses with my Panasonic mft... looking to switch to Canon EOS m50 APS-C .... can I still use the lenses??
I own a Helios 44-2 and I can confirm that it is a great lens! I picked mine up for £20 and paid and additional £10 for an adapter. Great price for a 50mm prime setup. The manual focusing on this lens is so nice and I have used it for various projects. Id really recommend getting on of these as for the price, you cant go wrong.
I also have a Helios 44-2. The Helios 44 is also great, but it's more blurry or soft. And, of course, the swirly bokeh and the background are great!
Hey there! I got a really nice Carl Zeiss Lense mounted on a Contax camera sadly it's jammed but there are no tutorials on how to modify its mount
Awesome video I've got a Fuji x10, which I've bought an adapter and super wide and telephoto converter lenses for. I've never thought I could buy vintage lenses, but as they are screw fit I guess that they would fit straight on the 52mm adapter ring.
Nooo way! Fuji X10 has a fixed zoom lens, and a tiny tiny sensor. It's a point a shoot on steroids basically (great camera thought)
You can't adapt any lens, since it's own lens is fixed. And because of the small sensor, a 50mm vintage lens would become something like 170mm. (If it was by any chance possible).
Just buy an xe1,or any other removable lens X series camera. They're can be found for 150-200 euros. Plus a 40 euros lens/adapter combo and Voila
Great list I have a few of these lenses. I’m in two minds about my Jupiter 12 so I bought a 7artisans modern Russian replica style. Was extremely disappointed it was so badly made didn’t fit my fuji mount so I’m back to my Jupiter 12 getting a close focus helicoid to extend the function and usability.
any suggestions for a similar look (bokeh) and flaring as the helios 44-2 but WIDER? thanks
can't wait to see a video on the cool old school cameras
Great review bro, I never thought of reviewing several lenses in one video. I actually review the Helios and the Mir on my channel as well
Jupiter 12 😭😭😭. Does someone have a solution for mirrorless cameras/apsc sensor? Have been looking all over the internet for a fix.
I recommend a Jupiter 37a, very good and sharp lens
Will Leica mount lenses even work on a DSLR? I thought the flange distance made that impossible
Try and get your hands on the Mir-24M - far and away my favourite of all my old Soviets, beats out even the Helios!
I use same with Nikon F mount. Fantastic glass👍
I have that Helios lens and it's wonderful, but the focusing issue you mentioned in the text on your video is a huge problem on my D5200; it doesn't just struggle at infinity, but at a few metres range too. The bokeh is really neat though and behaves unlike any lens I've used before; it doesn't just blur, it behaves a little like a kaleidescope.
It's crop, not magnification. Not a big deal but it shouldn't be confused with magnification which is common on macro lenses.
Try the Industar-61 l/d it has much better contrast than the non l/d and you can get it for 10-15 bucks!
Logan's colluding with the russians!111!!1 Somebody call the cyberpolice!
lol
I'll be president at this rate.
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hello, what do you think of industar 69? 28mm-2.8
Logan, when will you come out and admit you're just hipster pretending to be a metal head?
well zenitar m and m2s is good that lens are have sharp focusing and no swirly bokeh(normal out-focusing)
Amazing video, i just bought a Jupiter 8 but I can't find an adapter anywhere to fit my Canon T7i. Anyone knows where I can find one?
Its not possible to use m39 lenses on canon dslr.
what camera you use?
this is *extremely* helpful. also I wish I had seen these before I snagged a konica for my nikon J5--cannot focus at infinity at f1.8 so kind of a waste :(
Another to check out: the 200mm f4 Jupiter 21M, for ~$60 you can't beat it.
Not really magnification, is it? More like a crop. The MFT sensor is 1/4 the size of the full frame so it is only capturing the middle of the image projected by the lens onto the sensor. The rest of the light and image information is lost as it is outside the border of the MFT sensor. A focal reducer compresses the lens image projection so that less of the image information is lost, reducing the amount of crop from 2 to approx. 1.45, making it act very close to that of the APSC sensor crop. A MFT sensor has a much higher concetration of pixel bins than an average full or even APSC sensor. So it can take advatnage of the focal reducer project image information.
a 50mm always remains a 50mm regardless of sensor size(you'd have to fisically allter the internals of the lens to change that). The only thing that happens is that part of the image the 50mm creates falls outside your crop sensor(So the image gets cropped)
So it stays 50mm but the view angle becomes more comparable with a higher mm lens.
This is some real hipster stuff logan
So the glass is noticeably better than say a stock Nikon D5100 lens? What would be a good upgrade for our product photography shots?
what camera?
Nikon D5100 (it's old I know).
hi how do i put a wolensak on a canon t5i
With the Industar 61 lens I have to be extremely close to the subject to get a picture in focus. Otherwise the image is blurry on my Canon M50. With the M39 adapter.
Industar 69 design for half frame 28 mm 2.8 m39
Many of the Helios lenses were nicked off of the Zenit cameras and now I have to find one for my Zenit :-(
I was able to find one of the latest Zenit models with a modern Zenitar 50mm 2.0 and indeed on russia they are taking apart the "kits" they know lenses hace a higher demand.
good topic.
just purchased the Jupiter 8 and the Industar 61 m39 on eBay for 30$ total. Im excited to try them out!!
What adapter should look for
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Hi.
I do not think that suggesting to buy a Jupiter-8M (i.e. the version for Contax RF) for 10$ is a good idea, when you have to buy an adapter with helicoid for about 400$ to mount and be able to focus manually this lens on your mirrorless camera...The simple alternative, a Jupiter-8 for M39, solves the problem for 15-20$
Dammit, now you tell me about these! I just got a Nikon D5300 & bought the Nikon 18-200mm VR II lens to save buying a bunch of different expensive lenses to cover the ranges I want. Might have to give some of these a bash anyway.
Nice!
Industar 50-2 best)))
(tair 11a is more pricey but incredible too)
(and zenitar 16mm is okay, even if full open it is awfully soft, when stopping down from 5,6 to 16 will give you better sharpness than any of the fish eye lenses we make today :))
I have Helios lens but it's hard to focus with it. Bokeh is great but the center of the picture is not as sharp as I would like to. Maybe it's because I have canon 60d, which is not a full-frame dslr.
I'd say stop it down to 2.8 or 3.2.
Thanks. I will give it a try.
Crop factor does not magnify it crops. So a 50mm lens on a 2X crop body is still a 50mm lens it only has the same field of view as a 100mm lens.
I don't think I've ever came this early to watch crit but hey!
For the price of old and used soviet MIR 10-A you can get brand new 7Artisans 35/0.95
I use Ebay and aliexpress to find my adapters. Why? Better prices.
I use a prime lens on my nx300.
My Jupiter 8 rattles the lenses are loose inside and it's not well made, I also have a silver MIR 1B, very sharp lens but again badly made. Both lenses produce good images however If you want a quality built lens look elsewhere something like a Pentacon 50mm lens.
My first camera back in 1968 was a Ukrainian Practica. Came with 5 lenses. 35mm 50mm 70mm 500mm and a 35-105mm. I wish there was quality digital inserts for old film cameras. I don't see why they can't do this and make all the buttons work with simple modifications and clever design. There are so many great old cameras that could regain their usefulness.
Solder Joe Parktica was actually East German. Very decent cameras still have one lying around somewhere.
neat.
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my family has been pro photographers all their lives and yes they're Russians some of the best photographers out there! great stuff! the rest of you haters, take a break and cool off, jealousy might be your problem, but this guy is great at explaining things! thanks tek syndicate!
One thing that we must keep in mind is that most of these old lenses made in the USSR were, where in fact, copied from the German's Carl Zeiss lenses after world war 2. Not all of them, but many of them. So, back then, the USSR didn't create all their lenses from scratch but copied them, which is sad, but yeah.
i bought helios 44-2 for 10 €. great lens... best buy ever
:D pentax was mentioned
Да, Логан, стёкла неплохие. However, to be clear not all of those you've shown were made using German equipment.
An ad followed by incorrect information about the Russians and Leica/Zeiss. It only took one minute and 8 seconds for me to hit the pause button.
Thanks Logan, now the prices have gone up!
Tamron 28mm f2.8
One way to minimize the huge crop on Mirco 4/3rds cameras like the GH4/GH5 is to use a focal reducer. Mitikon makes an excellent one that works with these old screw mount lenses. You also get the bonus of an extra stop of light when you use it. www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1218445-REG/mitakon_zhongyi_mtkltm2m42m43_m42_lens_to_micro.html
always buy from a source where u can have recourse, if lens not as decribed. old lenses suffer from dust, oil,grease inside. worse still mould /fungus. lens elements can also sepsrste, vos glue fails.buying local, where you can inspect first, best. negotiate a deal, too.
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I have got a Russian FED4 and love its lens! I uploaded a video on my channel about it. Luís Conde
Logan feel free to mention sony@#!!?. Inherently Sony has been the leader thus far regarding the conversion of lens's. Search for yourself. This is not to say others (the obvious other camera manufacturer's) are still great.
Every camera,like lens has its + and -. Adaptation though, Sony is a cut above.
OMG THESE PRICES
I appreciate that you are trying to spread the good word here but you are spreading a lot of miss information. Lenses generally get softer the more open they get "f2". Also the reason you would get some of these lenses is not because they are cheap. It would be because they are fantastic quality lenses at any price. Not all things are about how sharp it is and how much contrast it produces. In almost all cases I would take a Helios or a Jupiter over a Samyang. Just take a look at this page www.flickr.com/search/?text=jupiter%203
That lens is the Jupiter 3 the cheapest lens I own. It is capable of some of the best pictures I have ever taken and I own lenses that cost with no exaggeration 60 times as much! Stop making excuses go buy a canon 5D for $400 Or a 5D Mark II for $600 and spend $300 on some Russian Primes (Jupiter 37AM, Helios 44M4, the best 35mm that is cheap at the time, and a set of M42 macro tubes) then go take a hundred thousand photos.
Wow the views have dropped so much since the name of the channel was changed
Indeed. We are looking into it... emailing YT. I know many aren't getting their notifications, but who knows what else. It's beyond just the "drama" and "people not liking our content".
I still love listening to you talk you are funny sometimes :)
Hmmmmmmm Its logen! xP P R A S I E D O U G
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i thought those were your fingernails in the beginning
Squarespace ad, covered up by a wix pop-up ad. Hilarious.
yo! fizirsttt!
never forget kid ussr was op as fuck (before crumbling under their own weight)
Stopped listening, wanted to know about russian lenses not squarespace.
Русские линзы действительно динамичны ....
NO,no,no,no, if you put a 35mm lens on a crop sensor there will be ZERO magnification! only the angle of view will change.
Is not magnification is crop as the digital zoom is just crop.
Photgraphy.
Ashamed to admit that Sony is better than your MFT?
The Russians saw the factory and took the tools? Not strictly true. The Russians were allowed to take the factory/machinery by agreement as a contribution for reparations after the war had ended. I am in the UK...... Don't forget the Russians, along with the US were our allies during the war. Aside from that, I have an old (1974) broken Zorki 4 camera with a good 50mm Jupiter 8 lens. Having adapted it to my Olympus MFT cameras, making it a 100mm lens, it makes an excellent lens it for portraits. With the renewed interest, these lenses are going up in price.
Arsat lenses are from Ukraine, not Russia. But why would you care.
Russian collusion!
Bokah? It's Bokeh, pronounced "Bo Kay."
It's Soviet, not russian.
This all lenses is not a Russian lenses, for example Industar 61 - Ukrainian lense. Take some knowledge about , before you tell some thing's to people.
if speak, then speak correctly. These are not Ukrainian lenses either. These are Soviet lenses! It's just that the plant was built on the territory of ukraine. In Soviet times, no one paid attention to the borders, they built factories where it was more convenient