Lubitel - soviet medium format camera

Lubitel - mirror dual-lenses Soviet medium-format camera.

Lubitel constructed in 1950 at the Leningrad Optical and Mechanical Association (LOMO) and was manufactured before 1956 (all produced 1,361,110 copies).

Lubitel was constructed on the basis of the German camera Voigtländer Brilliant, produced until World War II.

 
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M42 objektive

M42 objektive MTO-1000A - over telephoto catadioptric lens that resulted from attempts to increase the focal length, with the existing size. MTO stands for "Maksutov Tele objektive", by the name of the author's development of optical systems - Prof. DD Maksutov. M42 objektive MTO-1000A was started in 1957 at the Krasnogorsk Optical and Mechanical Plant (KMZ). A year after the beginning of production lens receives the Grand Prix at the World Exhibition in Brussels optical.

 
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Helios 44m lens Russian m42 2/58mm review
Helios 44m - six lens anastigmat c single or multicoated (MC) - coated lens is made on the basis of Biotar 2 / 58 (Carl Zeiss Jena). As the optical system - this is planar. One of the most common lenses Soviet times, who manned cameras Zenit. Issued several varieties and modifications of the Helios 44m. Mounting options: mount-Start, M39, M42 and bayonet-K.
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Helios 44-2 lens review

 Helios 44-2 58 mm f / 2 - helios lens with a single layer of enlightenment, based on the lens Biotar 2/58 (Carl Zeiss Jena). 

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Old Russian lenses

Russian lenses nowadays. More and more photographers are beginning to look closely to the old Soviet and foreign lenses. And many have long and actively use them as the photographic film and on digital. For obvious reasons: 
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History of the Soviet lens helios

    Soviet lens with the name Helios performed on a Planar (Planar) Dr. Rudolf (Paul Rudolph, 1896, Germany). Rudolph himself is not fully evaluated the possibility of his scheme. They were discovered in English optician H. Lee (Horace W. Lee), developed in 1920 lens "OPIC» (Opic, the company, "Taylor-Hobson» - Taylor & Hobson), who had a high aperture ratio - 1:2.5 (rather than 1:3.3 at the "Planar") at an angle of 50 degrees. Further Soviet lens of this scheme were issued under different names by many firms.

 
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