9th june 2015

Zenit E (8230368853) + helios-44-2 2/58 (82288426)

..the item arrived yesterday 8th june 2015..ordered on 21st may 2015..the camera came with a case but looked new as it was recently made not the original case i supposed unless the previous owner took care or rarely used the camera with the case..

the lense is a bit tricky..there is a ring next to the aperture ring that you need to rotate to open for focusing and then close it down to your intended aperture if it was smaller than 2.0 or otherwise you will be shooting at 2.0 instead..

..a roll of ilford HP5 plus was loaded..few shots were taken along my way to the office this morning..nothing special but the usual scenes huhhh..the intention is to check the sharpness and workability for both the body and the lense..i chose black and white at the moment because i just threw the coloured developer etc lately for new batch that is yet to prepare..been busy with family on saturday and shooting motor-sport on sunday..

..had few test shots with the Nikon Df last night within the house but nothing yet to come up with that are worth showing..so much talk on the swirling bokeh and i am eager to find out..

..i think i would spare the remaining 11 frames (if i marked the frame counter correctly this morning) for this swirling bokeh..shoot at 2.0 depending on distance to your subject and to the background..that was what i have read about it..