MC Kaleinar-5H is an excellent short telephoto lens with f / 2.8-22 aperture and 100mm focal length. His double meets ARSAT H 100 F2.8 - they are the same lens. After the collapse of the USSR, the optics of the Arsenal plant began to be produced under the brand name “Arsat“. They say that this is a Soviet copy Nikon 2.8 / 100 Series Ebut this is not so, Nikon and Kaleinar have different optical schemes.
Overview of the lens Kaleinar-5N 2.8 100mm
Lens MC Kaleinar-5N 2.8 / 100 is a legendary lens. MC Kaleinar-5N 2.8 / 100 was produced for 'Kiev' cameras with 'H' mount. Now the lens MC Kaleinar-5N 2.8 / 100 is very popular lens due to its relative cheapness and high quality of the resulting photos. He is rightfully considered one of the best Soviet portrait lenses.
view of the MS Kaleinar-5N 2.8 100 lens from the back and from the side with MDF with an elongated hood
The current popularity of the MC Kaleinar-5H 2.8 / 100 lens is due to the fact that Nikon cameras have not changed their mount type for more than 50 years. Some of the 'Kiev' cameras have the same mount as Nikon, this allows you to use lenses with the 'H' designation on modern Niko SLR camerasn without any adapters. In more detail about the use of old Soviet lenses in the article about Soviet lenses... For those who want to use the MC Kaleinar-5H 2.8 / 10 on a Canon system, an article about old lenses at canon.
Type of lens enlightenment MS Kaleinar-5N 2.8 100
When using the MC Kaleinar-5N 2.8 / 100 lens (the letter 'H' in the name means the mount type), there will be no problems with focusing to infinity, as well as with aperture presetting. Once installed on Nikon cameras, the aperture will be at its maximum open position and will only close at the time of shooting - just like with modern Nikon lenses. It is very easy to find out the year of manufacture of a lens - the first two digits in its serial number are responsible for this.
Sample photo on MS Kaleinar 5-n
The first thing that catches your eye, but rather in the hands - massiveness of MS Kaleinar-5N 2.8 / 10... The lens weighs over 300 grams with its small appearance. MC Kaleinar-5N 2.8 / 10 is made in the good old traditions - glass and metal. Actually, my copy is over 20 years old, but the quality remains at the same high level.
View of the aperture of the lens diaphragm MS Kaleinar-5N 2.8 100
Focusing:
The lens has only manual focus. The focus ring is rubberized. When focusing, the trunk of the lens lengthens by about 2 centimeters. The focus ring rotates 270 degrees, so the Kaleinar-5N 2.8 / 100 MC has very large stroke of the focus ring. When focusing, the front lens does not rotate. Focusing on the lens is nice enough. The minimum focusing distance is 80 centimeters.
Diaphragm
The lens aperture has only 6 blades - this is one of the strong disadvantages of this lens. The aperture blades are black, the light in the middle of the lens does not reflect back. F / 2.8 maximum allows easy control of DOF and taking photos with blurry background. The aperture can range from F / 2.8 to F / 22. Please note that when using the lens on Nikon cameras, automatic iris control is possible using the aperture ring on the lens, this is due to the fact that the lens is AI-S compatible lens for Nikon. If you use the lens on other cameras, then the usual manual iris control will be available.
I use or used this lens on cameras without any problems Nikon D90, Nikon D40, D80 и D700.
Sample photo on MS Kaleinar 5-n
When using the lens on cameras Nikon DX EGF lens will fit 150mm. On cropped cameras, the MC Kaleinar-5N 2.8 / 100 is a real telephoto lens. Due to the excellent ratio of focal length and aperture, the MC Kaleinar-5N 2.8/100 lens is perfect for portrait and creative shooting.
I have more here one shot at Kaleinar = 5N in the studio.
Attention!
This lens can work in full automatic aperture control mode through the camera and with confirmation of focus... How to do it - read in my article Dandelion Lushnikova.
Dimensions of two portrait lenses
Addition to the article:
Recently I got my hands on a Kaleinar-5H lens with an interesting name written through the letter 'C' - 'MC Cbut byjnar-5H 2.8 / 100 '. In the literature, there is an export version with a name through the letter 'K' - Kalejnar-5H (see here) Visually, it is no different from a lens with a name in Cyrillic and looks like this:
The lens has good image quality. First of all, I want to note the excellent sharpness over the entire field of the frame, good contrast, color reproduction. MS Kaleinar-5N 2.8 / 100 well tolerates backlight, has no distortion. The vignetting of the lens is minimal, especially when using the lens on cropped cameras.
view of the lens MS Kaleinar-5N 2.8 100 on the Nikon D80
Beginning photographers can feel the old days with the Kaleinar-5N 2.8 / 100 MC and appreciate the importance of each shot they receive, as well as increase their level of dexterity and knowledge of photographing methods and techniques. There is even a joke that a novice photographer usually buys the simplest camera Nikon D40 and one of the Helios-81N or Kaleinar-5N lenses.
Dimensions of two lenses
Catalog modern brand lenses 'Zenitar' и 'Helios' can look at this link.
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Conclusions:
MS Kaleinar-5n - a unique lens with fabulous sharpness. The lens is in the top five best portrait soviet lenses.
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Hello. Arkady, tell me, the other day I acquired this miracle for myself, judging by the fact that it says CALЕJNAR-5Н (Made in USSR), as I understand it, this is an export option, but I never found information that they were exported. How this lens will differ from those produced on the domestic market. I would also like to purchase Helios-87N, the question is: does this make any sense if Kaleinar-5N is available?
I apologize, more precisely Helios-81N.
It makes sense only if a different focal length is required, for Kaleinar it is 100mm, for Helios 81 - 50mm. Helios will have a different picture, with a different nature of blur, with a characteristic twist.
Shanovny Arcadia, reading your little tsikaviy look around, I know a little pardon in the written "For those who want to use MC Kaleinar-5N 2.8 / 10"
What would you recommend in terms of picture quality Kaleinar-5N or Nikon 50 1.8D?
And as he should have with HA - I have them very noticeable in some cases. The truth is, if you slightly change the focus, and the HA disappears. Is this the expected behavior?
Arkady, and what color should blackened petals be, and which non-blackened ones? If my petals are the color of wet asphalt?
I know and love this glass very well!
The price is cheap. Pleasure is the sea!
Particularly good for shooting flowers in natural light.
I used to shoot them on D40. What pleased us that with the new camera with its super-duper megapixel matrix, the lens is also very, very not bad!
I recommend to everyone who is not lazy to think.
Just do not buy all sorts of pribluda like "Lushnikov's dandelion" for him.
Learn to shoot and think for yourself!
Garrik_K I am also the owner of this wonderful lens and I learned how to say it yourself. But what if you like to be photographed? And you will not explain to all your friends under what conditions to set the shutter speed, ISO. Therefore, I want to establish a Lushnikov dandelion.
Olya, in this case, I put the girl in the “place for shooting”, aim at her in sharpness and aim for the exposure. Then we change. The girl knows how to sharpen herself :)
Please tell me what to do: I have a Kaleinar-5N, but with an M42 mount. I tried to screw on the M42-EOS adapter, but the tail that closes the diaphragm gets in the way (if I understand it correctly, it is called a "jump rope"). How can it be cut down?
I have a set of objects that have a change of color - for cameras with an H mount, that for cameras with a M42 adapter, as stated in the passport of the virob.
Anatoly to Arcadia (via Alexander- “Yustos”)
Alexander, did you yourself at least understand something from what you asked about?
I will now translate your “normal” question into normal language.
- Can you please tell me what to do: I don't have a toy motocosmovelopeda on small-speed trakowels, I tried to wind the wheel from the bumper on the track wheels, but the shank that closes the "jump rope" interferes, so can it be cut, if I understand correctly?
Therefore, dear Alexander, no one answered you anything. Since March.
My Kaleinar-5 in conjunction with Nikon D7000, when manually changing the aperture on the lens, transferred its values to the camera (accordingly, I entered the data of this manual lens into the camera). But then interruptions began with this case. It works, it doesn't. I don’t understand why. The lens with the camera is mechanically connected only with the pin of the jumper, can it be bent? Who knows, tell me. With other similar glasses - mir-24n, helios-81n, zenitar-16n everything is fine.
Read https://radojuva.com.ua/2012/06/nikon-ai-s-old-lens-about/ and figured it out myself. The only thing I don't understand is why sometimes the pin on the bayonet of the carcass gets under the diaphragm ring, apparently the ring is already worn out ...
Alexei, for the first time I want to try putting Kaleinar-5 on the d7000 and try shooting a portrait. I’m not a very experienced photographer (I'm afraid to ruin the camera), but I have no one to advise. can you tell us your impressions and some advice? I will be glad to any comments. thanks!
Regarding the transfer of aperture value to the camera. I have a Nikon F100 camera, a Kaleinar 5H lens. Around the camera mount there is a special leash (the lens leash hooks it) that transfers the aperture value to the camera. At first I did not see him, and I myself did not understand how this works. Look, maybe you have the same. Sometimes it does not engage, and then the camera does not see a change in the aperture value. Maybe you have the same.
such a question is kaleinar5n, in the shank in the rosverlino hollow, the hole is bigger so that it does not stick, everything on the Nikon D90 is fine, and on the other camera Nikon D7000 you can find a hard backlash of the lens itself, or can you think of something to solder Is this a little bit that there was no backlash? here is a photo of kaleinara5n http://www.ex.ua/view_storage/348185637784
Hello!
Tell me, is there any focal length converter-magnifier for this lens (of course, preserving infinity)?
Thank you!
Yours!
Hello! Tell me how MS Kaleinar-5n sits on the Nikon d90? Are there any nuances?
Sits down without problems, there Nikonovsky Baenet.)
I mean, are there any problems like with Helios-81H 2/50 MS
Vitaly there is exactly the same mount
Hello! I have a Kenon 550. I bought a Kaleinar 5n with an adapter (came in the kit, external thread M 42x1). I unscrewed the Nikon bayonet and put this adapter on the lens. Then I tried to screw the lens into the adapter with the M 42 female thread on the carcass. It turned halfway, and then the pusher of the jumper rested against the collar of the M 42 adapter. Does it make sense to pervert further? Well, there, to grind off a pusher for example? Or buy the “Nikon mount F - Canon EOS” adapter straight away? Thanks.
Hello. I have the same Kenon 550 carcass. Please tell me how you solved the pusher problem? did you have to cut it?
In the 90s, I bought as many as 4 H-mount lenses straight from Asenal. Each set included: invoices, manuals, passports, guarantees, hoods, 2 covers each, leather (!) And plastic cases, filters (UV type). Yes, and on the adapter. But, gospola-comrades, these adapters were aimed at Zenits, that is, so that you could easily rearrange the bayonet lens from the Kiev-19 TTL SLR on all Nikon DSLRs, and with this adapter (42/1) and on cameras of the company "Zenith". I did not rearrange (I regretted using a fucking screwdriver to twist in brand new lenses; and I didn't really need it - I had a personal brand new Kiev-19, and at work - four Zenits)
Greetings, please tell me which lens to take: Jupiter 37a or Kaleinar 5n? (Shooting at full height, close-up) d5100 camera (crop 1.5) despite the fact that there is already a Helios 81n. I would like to purchase another lens to cover the range 85-135mm. ..when the crop on the jupiter will be already about 200mm - is this not too much? Thanks in advance for the answer.
I now have two kaleinars-5. One older 1984 with an iron focus ring, and the second of 1992 with a rubberized ring and blackened aperture blades. I noticed the following difference - in a newer diaphragm, up to 11 is fixed in intermediate positions, but in the old one there is only 2,8-4-5,6, etc.
Tell me, who knows, if instead of Nikon’s tail, which was included in the factory kit on the M42 and attached to the canon through the M42-canon adapter, everything will work fine? For example, the jumper pin will not touch the mirror or something else?
With the M42 shank, when I screw the M42-Kenon adapter into the adapter, the jumper pin rests on the adapter boutique and the lens does not completely screw into the adapter. I think that's what to saw, sharpen? Adapter or pin?
Or maybe there are adapters without a boutique? I have a nikon system, and on the M42-nikon adapter, there are no boutiques, maybe there are such ones on a canon?
Fooled over. Bead there.
I have a Nikon D3100 18-55. I would like to try shooting with a Kaleinar-5n lens, I don’t know what will come out, tell me what and how. Thank you in advance)
I never saw the decision to install the Kaleinar 5H from M42 to Canon. Is it necessary to grind a bead with a file or are there more loyal ways?
Who knows, please write an answer.
It is more loyal to make a cut in the bead in place with a needle file, rather than cut the entire bead. Screw in - carefully pushing the pusher in the place of the drink.
The most loyal is, apparently, to return the Nikon shank to the kaleinar and buy the Nikon-Canon adapter. And in the future it will come in handy - any Nikon or Soviet lens with a Nikon tail can be put on the canon.
Hello Arkady, I would really like to know your opinion on what to choose between Kaleinar 5n and tair-11? And please advise what shirik to take on a crop of canon 550d in yen within reason? Thanks in advance!)
For A. Shapoval
Please note that it is not possible to shoot with the MC Gelius 81H and Kaleinar 5H 100 / 2,8 lenses that are installed on the NikonD5000, because The exposure scale does not appear on the screen of the camera itself, and therefore it is not possible to correctly assess where the picture goes to overexposure or underexposure. You can only control the lens using the shutter speed method. So whoever has a Nikon D5000 has the above lenses better not to buy - just money down the drain, as in my case. I went through Shapoval's articles, and it turns out that he doesn't know everything - pure PR for purchases.
It's a delusion. I clearly describe that the Nikon D5000 only works in M mode (manual mode) and that exposure metering with this camera and non-chip lenses is not available. This is described in more detail here. https://radojuva.com.ua/2011/04/optika-na-nikon/#how-mount (in the review of Kalein-5N there is a link to this article in the section on the use of the lens). Also, please note that I do not sell lenses at all, and my articles are purely altruistic in nature. I recommend just being more attentive.