Month: January 2022

Hanimex, an importer of photographic equipment into Australia and New Zealand, was founded in 1947 by Jack Hannes (not to be confused with Jack Hanna). The name was an abbreviation for Hannes Import Export, and according to their promotional material, the lenses were imported from Japan. Technological progress in lens manufacture in Japan has been …

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History The Helios 44-2 is actually the first vintage manual-focus lens I ever bought. It’s a 58mm f2 prime lens. It was made in Russia from 1950’s as a copy of a German Carl Zeiss lens. You might think the 2 in the 44-2 referred to the maximum aperture of f2, but it really means …

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