Overview of MC HELIOS-77M-4 50mm 1: 1,8 (Jupiter factory)

According provided by lens MC HELIOS-77M-4 50mm 1: 1,8 ZENIT M52x0,75 (with the logo of the Jupiter Optical and Mechanical Plant, Valdai and serial number 9117574) many thanks to the reader of Radozhiva - Vladimir Pivovarov.

MC HELIOS-77M-4 50mm 1: 1,8

MC HELIOS-77M-4 50mm 1: 1,8

MC HELIOS-77M-4 50mm 1: 1,8 is a rare and interesting Soviet fifty kopeck piece. There is already a version overview on Radozhiv MS HELIOS-77M-4 1,8 / 50, with the logo of the Vologda Optical and Mechanical Plant.

Differences between the Valdai and Vologda specimens are few:

  • Different factories manufacturers.
  • Different spelling of name and parameters - MC HELIOS-77M-4 50mm 1: 1,8 и MS HELIOS-77M-4 1,8 / 50.
  • The different font sizes used for aperture marks. Also, the MC HELIOS-77M-4 50mm 1: 1,8 version has an additional point near the F / 1.8 value.
  • Different enlightenment optics... Coverage MC HELIOS-77M-4 50mm 1: 1,8 has a brownish tint from the front and rear lenses, and MC HELIOS-77M-4 1,8 / 50 has a green-lilac tint.

I did not find other visible design differences between the lenses. But what’s interesting, the MC HELIOS-77M-4 50mm 1: 1,8 version (from this review) works much better in backlightThan MS HELIOS-77M-4 1,8 / 50. It is quite difficult to get a flare or flare on the MC HELIOS-77M-4 50mm 1: 1,8. In all other optical characteristics, I did not find any significant difference between these lenses. Due to the better work with the backlight, I am inclined to believe that the enlightenment of the MC HELIOS-77M-4 50mm 1: 1,8 is much better.

The visible difference of the lenses can be seen in the following photos:

MS HELIOS-77M-4 1,8 / 50 and MC HELIOS-77M-4 50mm 1: 1,8

MS HELIOS-77M-4 1,8 / 50 and MC HELIOS-77M-4 50mm 1: 1,8

MS HELIOS-77M-4 1,8 / 50 and MC HELIOS-77M-4 50mm 1: 1,8

MS HELIOS-77M-4 1,8 / 50 and MC HELIOS-77M-4 50mm 1: 1,8 (right)

MS HELIOS-77M-4 1,8 / 50 and MC HELIOS-77M-4 50mm 1: 1,8

MS HELIOS-77M-4 1,8 / 50 and MC HELIOS-77M-4 50mm 1: 1,8

MS HELIOS-77M-4 1,8 / 50 and MC HELIOS-77M-4 50mm 1: 1,8

MS HELIOS-77M-4 1,8 / 50 and MC HELIOS-77M-4 50mm 1: 1,8

Sample Photos

On a full-length mirrorless camera Sony a7 I used a lens with an adapter without any problems M42-Sony NEX.

You can download RAW + JPEG source files at this link (20 files in the '.ARW' and '.JPG' formats, 558 MB). All photos in the gallery above are on-camera JPEG from the camera Sony a7.

UPDATE 1

With your photos on the MC HELIOS-77M-4 50mm 1: 1,8 and the camera Canon EOS 450D shared a photographer Natalia Ova:

UPDATE 2

With your photos on the MC HELIOS-77M-4 50mm 1: 1,8 and the camera Nikon D800 shared photographer Alexander Chorny:

How to use with modern cameras?

Lenses with mounting thread M42 (M42 X 1 / 45.5), such as the lens from this review, are very easy to use on almost any modern digital camera (both SLR and mirrorless), for this it is enough to choose the right adapter (adapter). You do not need to carry out any additional steps to modify the lens.

The cheapest adapters can be found at Aliexpress.com... There are adapters (adapters) with a chip that provide more convenience during shooting, usually chips are used to confirm focus and / or metering exposure, and form the correct EXIF. The chip does not affect the image quality in any way.

For some SLR cameras (for example, with the Nikon F-mount), you need to use adapters with a corrective lens, which allows you to focus correctly at all focusing distances. For any mirrorless cameras, such a lens is not needed, and the adapter is a simple decorated hollow metal tube with an appropriate mount.

For SLR cameras

  1. Canon: For cameras Canon EOS with bayonet mount EF / EF-S need an M42-Canon EOS adapter, such an adapter with a chip can be found herewithout chip here.
  2. NIKON: For cameras Nikon DX / FXas well as for cameras Fujifilm и Kodak with a Nikon F mount, you need an M42-Nikon F adapter, you can buy such an adapter without a lens and a chip here, with a lens without a chip herewith chip without lens here, with lens and chip here. Why a lens? Why chip?
  3. PENTAX: For Pentax cameras with K mount, you need an M42-Pentax K adapter, you can buy such an adapter here.
  4. SONY/MINOLTA: For cameras with a Sony / Minolta A mount, you need the M42-Sony A adapter, you can find such an adapter without a chip at this linkwith a chip at this link.
  5. OLYMPUS/PANASONIC/LEICA: For cameras with a 4/3 bayonet mount (not to be confused with Micro 4/3!) You need an M42-4 / 3 adapter, you can buy such an adapter here.

For mirrorless cameras

  1. SONY: For cameras with 'E'/'FE' mount series SonyNEX и Sony Alpha you need an adapter M42-Sony E (aka M42-Sony Nex), you can find it at this link. An autofocus adapter is also available for these cameras. Techart PRO Leica M - Sony E Autofocus Adapterwhich can be found at this link.
  2. OLYMPUS / PANASONIC / KODAK / XIAOMI: For cameras with a bayonet mount Micro 4/3 (Micro 4:3) you need an adapter M42-Micro 4/3, you can find it at this link.
  3. CANON M: For cameras with Canon EF-M mount need adapter M42-Canon M, it can be found at this link.
  4. CANON R and RF-S: For cameras with Canon RF mount need adapter M42-Canon R, it can be found at this link.
  5. Nikon 1: For cameras Nikon 1 Series need adapter M42-Nikon 1, you can find it at this link.
  6. Nikon Z: For cameras Nikon Z series (FX/DX) need an adapter M42-Nikon Z, it can be found at this link.
  7. FUJIFILM X: For cameras with mount X need an M42-Fuji X adapter, you can find it at this link.
  8. FUJIFILM GFX: For medium format cameras G-mount need M42-Fuji GFX adapter, you can find it at this link.
  9. SAMSUNG: For cameras with NX mount, you need an M42-Samsung NX adapter, you can find it at this link. There are no adapters for the NX mini camera yet.
  10. PENTAX: For Q-mount cameras, you need an M42-Pentax Q adapter, you can find it at this link.
  11. SIGMA / PANASONIC / LEICA: For cameras with L mount you need an M42-Leica L adapter, you can find it at this link.
  12. LEICA: For cameras with a bayonet mount Leica M need adapter M42-L / M, you can find it at this link.

If you have any questions on compatibility and adapters - ask in the comments (comments do not require any registration at all).


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Results

MC HELIOS-77M-4 50mm 1: 1,8, like his twin brother MS HELIOS-77M-4 1,8 / 50, turned out to be an interesting lens with an unusual twisted bokeh and, in general, with a nice picture. As practice has shown, VOMZ version works much worse in backlight.

Familiarity with the Soviet Helios brand lenses I recommend starting with an inexpensive and common lens Helios-44-2 2/58 (aka HELIOS-44-2 2/58). The following links can look at modern lenses Zenitar и HELIOS.


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Comments: 119, on the topic: Review MC HELIOS-77M-4 50mm 1: 1,8 (Jupiter plant)

  • ROMAN MM Kpp

    Helios 77-m-4 Yu + Nikon D800

  • ROMAN MM Kpp

    also

  • ROMAN MM Kpp

    more

  • ROMAN MM Kpp

    and so…

  • ROMAN MM Kpp

    Arkady, probably, the Valdai lens should be included in the general list of lenses (along with the Vologda lens), otherwise you can’t get to it.

    Good Luck!

  • ROMAN MM Kpp

    as well as…

  • Alexbrtn

    What is interesting about my copy (93432377) is the black diaphragm

  • Michael

    Figure MC Helios-77m4 Valdai. The image is strongly compressed for small size, but gives an idea of ​​the picture. f = 2

  • Slam

    Friends! I got HELIOS 77M-4, as in the review. Jupiter plant. And, damn it, catches the mirror. On the 5D Mark II and 5D Mark III cameras. Everything is fine up to 3 meters. And then no. Someone, of course, will say that no further is needed. But I do not agree here. Full-length portrait and general plan. Question to the lucky owners of the 77th: who doesn’t cling to the 5D Mark II and 5D Mark III and there is infinity? No alterations. To set and work? Maybe not the Jupiter plant, but VOMZ? I like the picture, I do not want to part with the lens, but you can change it.

    And yet, how to deal with this problem? Sawing back is not. Are there any other options? Well, except how to buy 1D)

    • Valery

      Raised the mirror, and work on the screen.

  • Novel

    The lens is magnificent (I have Valdai), although I have Porst 1.4, I’m not going to get rid of it, it’s a very tasty picture

  • Alexey

    I want to buy such a lens (namely Valdai production), please, who sells, write to sterx@rl6.ru. Thank!

  • Alexander

    The second year this glass pleases ... I shot without a flash, just with my hands, the picture is very nice, nostalgia with old toys on the tree)

  • Alexander

    https://ibb.co/fEP5pR In the previous message, I could not insert a photo ...

  • Michael

    and how sharp it should be, my copy of the helios 77m4 is much softer on the open than the helios 44m7. Probably the way it should be?
    When comparing head-on, I would now choose 44m7. Although when I chose, and looked at the forums, they mostly write the opposite. On cropped matrices, differences in bokeh are not fundamentally different, but 44m7 is much easier to process. Because chromatic aberration is much less. Since 77, I was tired of cleaning them, they are very visible and distracting. And it’s easier to get into focus for some reason with Helios 44. The percentage of marriage is less. Here is such a personal experience.

  • Michael

    By the way, there are almost no photo chromatics in the above examples. Can such an effect speak of defective lenses?

  • Fedor

    Recently I bought this glass. It draws much nicer than helios from 44 to 44m-7

    • Valery

      Well seven in vain you are caring. Chic glass.

  • Yana

    I bought this lens, the camera is from me Sony Alpha700. The diaphragm works strangely. If in native lenses it is closed as much as possible in the removed state, then on the contrary. It turns out the aperture adjustment ring does not work.

    • zengarden

      It is necessary to fix the pin of the diaphragm pusher in the pressed state, then the iris adjustment will work. This is either the appropriate adapter, or manually (you can drive a piece of the rod from the ballpoint pen there).

  • Eugene

    Thanks for the article. Perhaps I’ll buy myself some Helios)) it’s not for nothing that they are called

  • 4ma

    Will he hook the mirror on canon eos 5d mark 2 and canon eos 1D mark 3? Please unsubscribe who used

    • Alexey

      ordinary helios 44m * does not catch, did not try? in 77m4 everything is the same, the size and stroke of the lenses.

    • Misha

      On 1d m3 will not be

  • Misha

    The lens, unlike whale, at least kenon at least nikon och sharp with 2.8 and not afraid of backlight. I shoot them on the canon 550d 40d and sony a7

  • anonym

    Please tell me if the M42-Canon EOS adapter with a chip (which is listed on the link to Ali) is suitable for the Canon 760D?

    • Michael

      yes Canon he and Africa Canon

  • Alex_Puryhin

    And tell me the price order for the new MC HELIOS-77M-4 50mm 1: 1,8 Valdai

    • zengarden

      What does new mean? their production was discontinued in the early 90s of the last century ... Can be found in good condition, but prices depend on the greed of the (re) seller. I looked myself - even VOMZovskie on the secondary housing for 6-8 thousand rubles; and Valdai will be even more expensive.

  • Alex_Puryhin

    zengarden is when the fly did not sit. I found one with documents and a box. Release date 1992. He spent all this time in the closet. )))

  • Ilya

    Good afternoon, as I understand this lens has a "jumper drive", I am interested in removing it so that it can be used through an adapter on a Nikon cropped camera, or is it, on the contrary, absolutely necessary?

    • Arkady Shapoval

      You do not need to delete anything. It just needs to be clamped with any available method, for example, a piece of toothpick. Make it always pressed. And use the lens to your pleasure with any Nikon camera through an adapter.

  • R'RёS,R ° F "RёR№

    Good day!
    I want to buy this lens, but scary problems associated with the mirror.
    Question to the masters.
    Who can MC HELIOS-77M-4 finish (remake) a full frame for Nikon, so that the mirror does not cling to infinity, and make infinity itself?
    What would the lens be installed on the camera and take pictures without fear that there will be problems.

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