58mmShootout - 44-2 - Coco - a photo on Flickriver

            Here are the last images for this lens. My cats make great subjects and I tried to take images of them with each lens, but they also can be finicky and want to go back inside when it starts to get hot. So I didn't get shots of them with all the lenses. 
Anyhow, here's my little girl cat, Coco just sitting in one of my gardens. She just plopped herself down in a cool shady spot to watch for bugs to chase.

This lens is such a great one for portraits, especially on a crop Canon R7 it has the look of a 93mm lens. So its right in that range. I guess that's why I have gravitated to the 58mm lenses, I like that tighter framing. And this copy of the 44-2 is very sharp and very easy to use. I did have to clean all the old, nasty, waxy grease out of it. this lens was made in 1983, So it had been a few years since it had been assembled. And it had some of that grease on the blades. So I had to do a full cleaning of the lens. But it is now working wonderfully and it so easy to use.  Definitely different than all the other 58mm lenses with the aperture ring up in front and being a "Pre-Set" lens. Its shape is also an odd one. Very different than most lenses. But maybe thats why we all like the Helios 44-2, its just so different. But DAMN if this isn't a very sharp image! Look at her eyes! I always try to focus on the cats eyes. I feel like that its very important to capture super sharp eyes on cats.

Shot using a Helios 44-2 58mm f2 @f2

Taken on: June 5, 2024

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Camera: Canon EOS R7, f/0, 1/640 sec, 0mm, ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS R7
Aperture:	f/0
Exposure Time:	0.002 sec (1/640)
Focal Length:	0mm
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Luminar Neo
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