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Captured in the riverland biofarm in Cyprus, using a Helio 58mm F2 lens adapted a Canon 5Dc.
Shooting with a lens like the Helios on a Canon 5Dc can be intimidating at first: The lens needs to be adapted in reverse, so aperture and diatance marking are not within sight. The aperture ring also turns in the opposite direction to what I'm used to. There are no electronic contacts so the focus confirmation of the 5D doesn't activate (granted it is not so accurate).
Having said that, I found it much easier to use it than I initially feared. The focus moves slowly and smoothly, and things look so precise in the viewfinder. It is thus easily to visualize focus through the optical view finder.
The infinity point is also very accurate, unlike most manual lenses I use where infinity is just near the end of the focus range. So the lens becomes very useful for landscapes.
Here is a shot I captured while waiting for my bottles of fresh milk to be filled! I find the rendering from this combo to be quite special and highly cinematic.
I intend to use another M42 mount lens this weekend, the Mamiya Sekor 55mm F1.8, which I also enjoyed using on my R6mk2. That is a lens much older than me and much older than most of my follow list haha!
Graflex slr 3x4 - Astro-Berlin telestan 210/3.5
