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    Aug 16, 2022 3 minutes

    LETTER OF THE WEEK

    Trial and error

    year or so ago I bought a 53mm f/1.8 Helios-103 from Belarus for £20 (these are found on Kievs made after 1979). The lens is excellent and I searched high and low to try and find out where this lens came from. I know that it was made in the USSR but was it a copy of another lens? Someone online said that it was a Summitar copy. The Summitar has seven elements whilst this lens has only six – so scarcely a copy. Someone else

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