Fascinating ! Thanks for showing how to remove the front element and to be patient with removing the nameplate.

Fantastic - I'd never heard about reversing the front element until you mentioned it when talking about the Auto Takumar 35 f2.3 - guess I'll be trying it on a lens one of these days. Cheers for the video.

Awesome! Can't wait to try this!

you are right! I'm having a lot of fun with it. thank you!

So interesting...love the effect.

Great! i found it to be a 5minute job on my Helios44M-4 wonderfull results with the added bonus the helios now focusses to infinity on my Nikon!

An interesting video with great examples to support the mod.

Very kind and helpful of you to reveal this process so concisely. Nicely made video once again. Too bad I couldn't have seen this before I accidentally ran one of my two 44-2's through the washing machine last year (it tried to escape from atop my dresser via laundry basket). I then gave it away to someone willing to deal with it since I was thinking it too difficult to open up and clean out. You've made me realize I could have done it then later would have had opportunity to enjoy a reversed lens. Don't want to do this to my remaining copy at this point but again, appreciate knowing it can be done without too much hassle/risk.

Ok, ok, you win. I'll buy a Helios 44 :) Love your channel. Thanks for all the info.

Very helpful. Thank you.

Amazing!

Subbed. I'll try it on my 44 got a few nice affects

Cool. I have a Mir for a long time, I did the same on it when I bought it, use it since like that. Love the effects wich I find different from what I see here. Maybe I'll do the same on one of my Helios 42 lenses. Btw I enjoy your channel and the radioactive series was very well done.

I really really really like tour channel

Nice info

That's wild.

Thanks so much for your video. I recently got the lens but I was unable to get the weird boken effects straight away.

Very interesting. Will this lens reversal technique also work with the 44m?

one year after, still in love, and I'm learning to use it everyday better. I found out that stepping it down will get you even more beautiful pictures, less freaky and more dreamy. I use it a lot. I also film with it, and there comes a catch: sometimes I wish I had something similar, but more in the 24-35 range, so that I can film with "just" with a firm hand. do aou have any experience with wider lenses that can come close to the helios?

When reversing the front lens the lens touches the lens beneath it, even with the spacer between them. I've used an o ring underneath the spacer so the lenses don't touch. That way it also sits more secure when tightening the name ring.

I'm very interested in this, but it will be an entirely new skill for me. Is there a special size or type of lens spanner wrench I should buy? Thank you for your response.

Piece of Cake! Curved face of element faces inward

Qué lente de la serie Helios es recomendado para la modificación del cristal?

Reversed glass hits the element behind with some designs, so tightening up the front ring pressures - and can grind - the glass together?

i flipped the front element of my 35mm c.z,j ddr flektogon , very nice results

I've down a lot of 3D programming. One area that is quite interesting is parametric shapes and forms. Those bat like shapes look a lot like a shape called a Roman or a Sine Sphere. If you think of a bokeh bubble as a sphere projected in 3D space from the lens surface, in programming, a sphere can be described as a relatively simple sine formula.In math it is actually quite elegant. By reversing the lens you may be creating inverse sine curves and the shape that is displayed looks quite similar to the two shapes I have suggested above. mathworld.wolfram.com/RomanSurface.html

Do use a microfiber cloth when attempting an element flip, myself and every other AC had a minor heart attack when you said you were flipping it out onto a t-shirt. The shirt probably isn't going to introduce any noticeable damage on the first flip but its course fibers will damage the element over time. Otherwise the images are gorgeous and I want this lens for impressionist photography.

Thank you for the video. Is the swirly effect same on APS-C as well? I heard the effect is more prominent on Full frame..

What happens when you stop down and focus on infinity? What happens when you reverse the back element or both of the elements? You should do more videos on this :)

Can u send me link how get/buy this awesome lens sir, thanks 🙏🏻

Would this work with the helios 44m or is there something unique about the securing of the front element in the 44-2 that is unique to that lens.

Not all the Helios 44's types lenses can do this reversing, because the thread mount on the front lens is to short to reverse.

Hi Sir, May I ask the brand or a link to your wrench? Would like to try, but will appreciate your help. Thanks

No luck here. I've tried reversing the front element, but I couldn't get the nameplate to screw back on. Both lenses are touching one another. All I got were damaged lenses (and yes, I've mounted the extra ring the right way round).

when i try this on my Helios 44-2, the front element touches the element beneath it so i will rather not screw it in like that knowing i might scratch the lens.

Hello there. I have an helios 44m-5 58mm f2, can I actually do it on it? I was reading and in theory, you need to have some space to flipply it.

Hey man, please help, I need to now if I can do the same process on the helios 44m ?

how you call this tools that you used to open the front screw please ?

Is it work on all series of helios 44-2?? I have 8 version.

Гелиосы сейчас идут как более творческие объективы.

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"How to put fingerprints all over your front element and make unusable lens out of otherwise quite useable lens."