Category: Lenses

MC Jupiter 37AM 3.5/135 USSR lens, review

MC Jupiter-37AM 3,5/135 Long-focus interchangeable lens with coated optics for SLR cameras. Four-lens anastigmat. Jupiter-37A is a direct descendant of the Jupiter-11A 4/135 lens. It was created precisely as a modernization of the 11th.Initially,...

Pre-WWII Lens FED-36 6,3/100 & viewfinder FED 100 mm

We continue to study the pre-war products of the Kharkov Plant named after Dzerzhinsky, produced under the FED brand, and move on to the most interesting thing – to optics. Surprisingly, before the beginning...

Soviet Lens Mir-1V review

Mir-1V 2,8/37 Wide-angle lens with coated optics for SLR cameras. Mir-1 was developed at GOI in 1954 on the basis of the Flektogon optical scheme. At the same time, Mir-1 does not directly copy...

Soviet Lens Mir-20M 3,5/20 review

Mir-20M 3,5/20 Extra-wide-angle lens with coated optics for SLR cameras with M42 mount. Mir-20 was created on the basis of the Flektogon 2.8 / 20 lens (Carl Zeiss Jena). The calculation of the optical...

Soviet Lens Helios-44-2 review

Helios-44-2 2/58 Standard lens with illuminated optics for SLR cameras with M42x1 mount. Initially, the Helios-44 was created on the basis of the Biotar 2/58 lens (Carl Zeiss Jena), and even at first it...