Aother ice… thing. Photographed at the lake, below the ice that covered the lake. Done with the lens Helios 44-3 (58mm/2) on Caon EOS 350D.

Today I went on a trip to on of the nearest lakes. The inspiration was not high I have to admit, but some ice stuck on stones at the lakes beach got me interested. Here are a few shot, I got more coming in a few days. The lens was Helios 44-3, the old russian ;)

I made an inspired trip with the Helios 44-3 the other day, after I got some questions from Ali in the comments to my review of the lens (one of my first manual lenses and reviews by the way). I got out early one morning, but the result was … ok. Since I have not photographed for a while I guess I need to work some to get mojo back. But I’m quite happy with this shot, into the dawn with the MC Helios 44-3 58mm/2. It also made me photographer of the day at twitter.com/photoandpicture.

I suspect that many photographer wrinkles on the nose when I tell of my Helios-lens, manufactured in BeLOMO, Minsk in the early 80′s 90′s. Surely it can’t be any good?

Helios 44-3 front

The states of former Soviet union actually made a lot of good camera equipment, and what I’m going to write about now is a copy from a Carl Zeiss-factory that ended up in the Eastern block after the war and “moved” to russia. Helios is a Carl Zeiss Biotar-copy. Lets see how it handles…
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