Hello old friend

Whenever I travel I take my trusty Nikon with me with the 3 usual lenses. The set is tested and heavily used on different occasions. But it is heavy and takes a lot of space. So this time decided to leave it behind and take just the tiny (comparing to Nikon) Sony body, borrow the lenses from my brother and see how that goes.

I am not gonna hide, I do miss my trusty Sigma 105. I miss it terribly. We could have had so much fun! All the bugs, bees an spiders hiding in the flowers are missing it too. I am sure of that.

But, since I don't have any other option, I am almost forced to use other lenses. And this as the first one I picked - Helios 40-2. I remember I did enjoy it the last time and was blown away by the bokeh effect.

I also remembered that it took me a while to learn it and how to get the satisfying results. And yes - I forgot that so I have to learn that again :p.

This is a fully manual lens and even though the Sony camera helps with the focus it is still a lot of hit and miss.

I took it to the garden or a quick test. The early afternoon with slowly setting sun was just prefect, though I still didn't get what I was looking for.

I did get some swirls (it is a master of swirly bokeh alter all) and some nice bubbles. But it is still not the bokeh that makes you go dizzy and you forget what you are supposed to look at. All you see is the crazy bubbles.