Lately I have been inspired by several photographers that manage to get pictures with out of focus blur that is truly wonderful. I have found out that they use old lenses often made in the old Eastern Europe or Russia. I thought of finding an old lens on internet but the time and effort hasn’t been there. Then one day last week I just realised that I had all what I needed to start playing around. I remembered that my father’s first SLR was a Zenith and that should be somewhere in the attic. In the back of my mind something said that it was a 58mm lens on that old SLR and it turned out to be a Helios 44, 58mm f2.0, lens. I had a converter ring between m42 and PK target mount laying around and I managed to get it all to work on my old PENTAX K10D. Below are two examples from earlier today when we had a bit of sunlight.