Fox Frame Rentals
Helios 44-2 58mm T2.1 (Iron Glass Rehoused PL Mount)
The swirl. Soft contrast wide open, glowing highlights, and the most distinctive out-of-focus rendering of any lens we own. Specialty character tool.
Friday pickup, Monday return counts as one day.
Description
The Helios 44-2 is a Soviet-era 58mm prime, originally a Zenit camera kit lens, that produces the most distinctive bokeh of any lens we own: pronounced swirl, reduced contrast, characteristic glow. Iron Glass Adapters rehoused this copy in PL mount with a proper cinema barrel, hard focus stops, and 0.8 MOD gears, which turns a $50 vintage prime into a genuinely usable cine character lens. We rent it for narrative work, music video, dream sequences, and any shot where a clean modern look is wrong. The optical character is the entire rental case, there is no other lens in our kit that produces this swirl. Pairs with the Alexa Mini LF (PL via LPL adapter) and Komodo (PL via Revolva). Manual focus, T2.1.
Additional information
- Mount
- PL
- Filter size
- 95mm
- Category
- Lens
- Manufacturer
- Helios
Key specs
- Mount: PL (Iron Glass rehouse)
- Focal length / T-stop: 58mm T2.1 (manual)
- Coverage: full-frame (43mm image circle)
- Build: cinema rehouse with hard focus stops, 0.8 MOD gears
- Optical character: pronounced swirl bokeh, reduced contrast, glow
- Era: Soviet 1960s-70s design, modern rehouse
