Hello Shel, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > With comments like this, I'm sure interested in finding one of these > lenses. Your post brings up images of soft, foggy mornings along the > Seine, diaphanous mists hanging like lace curtains over country fields, > and the muted colors of a gentle autumn morning, or a pastel sunset > through the veiling spray of ocean waves driven by the evening wind.
another lens which produces almost pastel like colors comes into my mind - it's Russian made Helios-44 which used to be a standard lens on Zenit 12XP cameras. It does have slightly unusual 58mm focal length and doesn't cope very well with flare (though it's multicoated), but it's available almost for free. The name suggests it could be a copy of Zeiss Sonnar (both contains Sun in their names), but I really don't know. Anyone knows more about it's optical formula? Peter P.S. my spell checker suggests 'Hellish' instead of 'Helios'. :-) This might be true, it's really good lens (at least for special purposes). - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
