Best M42 Lenses 2024 [Top 10 Picks Reviewed]

Links to the Best M42 Lenses we listed for Any Budget:
1 MC Helios F2 Russian Lens
avanturl.com/5hkB9m [Amazon]
2 7Artisans Full Frame Fixed Lens
avanturl.com/xtM8E4 [Amazon]
3 Industar 61 F2.8 Soviet Russain Lens
avanturl.com/hKJqtQ [Amazon]
4 Industar 50-2 50mm F3.5 Russian Lens
avanturl.com/hlk1Of [Amazon]
5 PENTAX Super Takumar 55mm Lens
avanturl.com/AHa3ec [Amazon]
6 Jupiter 9 85mm F2 Russian Portrait Lens
avanturl.com/Wk6hnb [Amazon]
7 PENTAX Super TAKUMAR 35mm F/3.5 MF Lens
avanturl.com/pkoGib [Amazon]
8 Helios 44-2 Russian Lens
avanturl.com/CQusSR [Amazon]
9 HELIOS 44mm USSR Lens
avanturl.com/u15woe [Amazon]
10 Mir 1 V (B) Wide Angle Lens
avanturl.com/nkJQXm [Amazon]
What are the Best M42 Lenses in 2024?
In today's video we reviewed the Top 10 best M42 Lensess on the market in 2024. We made this list based on our personal opinion and we ranked them in no particular order, after doing our research based on their prices, quality, durability, brand reputation and many more.
After watching this video you will know which are the best budget, top selling and top rated M42 Lenses on the market today.
If you choose from this list you can be sure that you buy one of the best M42 Lensess available today.
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Links to the Best M42 Lenses we listed for Any Budget: 1 MC Helios F2 Russian Lens geni.us/5JawyEr [Amazon] 2 7Artisans Full Frame Fixed Lens geni.us/DBCzvwr [Amazon] 3 Industar 61 F2.8 Soviet Russain Lens geni.us/A6RhfRJ [Amazon] 4 Industar 50-2 50mm F3.5 Russian Lens geni.us/XZVZ77B [Amazon] 5 PENTAX Super Takumar 55mm Lens geni.us/g4phiFG [Amazon] 6 Jupiter 9 85mm F2 Russian Portrait Lens geni.us/ppbOo [Amazon] 7 PENTAX Super TAKUMAR 35mm F/3.5 MF Lens geni.us/Oghwtpx [Amazon] 8 Helios 44-2 Russian Lens geni.us/Ket9 [Amazon] 9 HELIOS 44mm USSR Lens geni.us/2ERNTp [Amazon] 10 Mir 1 V (B) Wide Angle Lens geni.us/ETU70Wp [Amazon]

[@jameswburke]

3:22 It's "Industar" not 'dustar'. For good reviews of ex-Soviet lenses with photos, go to Zenography channel on KZbin.

[@theothertonydutch]

It literally says so on the lens. WTF.

[@alexblaze8878]

Better yet (and I do like Zenography) go to Simon Utak’s series of the best m42 lenses. He’s got the most comprehensive and well presented videos on m42 lenses.

[@jameswburke]

@@alexblaze8878 Yes I watch his too.

[@mykcer]

sample images would be nice ...😉

[@andikrauthofen6228]

A Leica M Lens is no M42 lens...

[@fakihkademoglu2806]

Absurd list with a Leica as m42 :)

[@esphotos3265]

The list is more like the 'Cheapest M42 Lenses in 2022'.

[@fosterhart2013]

If you told me this content creator wants to be a Russian lens influencer , I most definitely would agree !

[@Tsudkyk]

Excellent selection of lenses. I have owned the majority of these lenses at one point and the ones I haven’t, are ones I have been wanting to get my hands on.

[@Tsudkyk]

M42 is my favorite lens mount. There are tons of them, there are plenty of excellent bodies to choose from and it is a simple mount that can be easily adapted to damn near any camera.

[@alexblaze8878]

This may be the worst “Best M42 lenses” video on YT. The narrator is uninformed and simply wrong in several spots in this video.

[@mhz9003]

I think the narrator is a robot.

[@ttikki]

On the industar 61 rings are actually the opposite as stated in the description

[@patriziodalessandro1693]

Hello. You look confused...I wonder why you spend so much time for nothing. 1. Helios is a brand and the model you are showing is evidently a Helios-44M-4. Variations of the same lens also on 8th place (Helios-44-2) and 9th place (Helios-44M-6). All 58mm f/2 Biogon copies with very subtle difference in rendering, if none at all. 2. Apparently you are talking about the 50mm f/1.1 for Leica M cameras (nothing to do with M42 screw mount) 3. Funny enough, but as far as I know Industard 61 L/D was made only for M39 screw mount (again not M42). You want Industar 61M (for M42). This is a Tessar design (4 lenses / 3 groups): I wonder why it's smaller than a Biogon/Helios-44 (6 lenses in 4 groups)... 4. "there are about 7 blades" means sometimes six and sometimes eight? "Duststar" seems an appropriate name: ask the owners of the photos to buy a rocket blower and clean their lenses... 10. eight blades usually produce octagons...

[@evdl3101]

Number 1, 8 and 9 are actually the same lens, just some slight variations. Although this is probably the most mass produced lens ever, the optics are virtually the same. And yes, Industar 61 L/D exists in M42.

[@kinn11]

uploaded 2 years ago ... oh well they're vintage so it doesn't really matter

[@PhillipRivara]

Lovely to all the lenses in this video are covered in dust

[@patriziodalessandro1693]

You know that they are old lenses (most of them, at least)...put your mouse over the video's timeline for lens number 4 and read the description: DUSTSTAR

[@EricKlein]

this is ai generated right? like the entire thing?

[@BeerForTim]

That's kind of what I thought.

[@josepedroteixeira9721]

He presented one of the worst versions of the Helios 44 and pointed out the build quality, when the problem is exactly that the manufacturer of that model has build quality issues...

[@MisterManekk]

This channel has no idea about lenses and cameras :D

[@justnoted2995]

Get someone else with a nice soothing voice to read your video script.. it really screeches

[@C.I...]

Weird AI generated voice....

[@andikrauthofen6228]

the Pentax 1.8 is not a radioactive lens, it is the 1.4. Do your homework.

[@zverispetras]

It is radioactive, not all versions apparently. As well as the one you mentioned that I assume is the 50mm f1.4.

[@patriziodalessandro1693]

@@zverispetras Confirmed. Both my Super-Takumars 55mm f/1,8 are radioactive. One SMC Takumar 55mm f/1.8 is not (s/n 7981696) and one is (s/n 7606761).

[@megacast]

Plagiarism at its best

[@simplexj4298]

Hardly any useful information offered by an awful computer-generated voice. Channel blocked ... 👎

[@JayGreezy]

I would NOT put much faith in this list. That Takumar 55mm is the WORST of the Takumar line,. I THINK what he meant was the 50mm f1.4 which is the best of that line. The 55 is trash, and everyone that knows anything in the camera hobby knows this.

[@raymeedc]

You don’t know what you’re talking about. The 55 is highly regarded by anyone who knows anything about Takumars. Check out the reviews on line, especially Simon’s highly respected views, who has a KZbin video on the 55mm Tak line in particular. Trash? What A Dope. & yes, this guy posting this video is mostly off the wall otherwise.

[@raymeedc]

P.S.- I also have the iconic 8 element Super-Takumar 50mm, a Zeiss Pancolar 50, a Tomioka 50, Helios 44-2. The 55 respectively holds it’s own amongst these highly regarded peers.

[@raymeedc]

Oops, almost forgot my Zeiss Biotar. Also, I have the full line of 55mm Taks, from the 10 bladed Auto-Tak Zebra to the Super-Multi-Coated version. Super & Super-Multi-Coated Taks are worth the price of admission for their unmatched focusing action alone.

[@lee541982]

@@raymeedcThat’s a lot of radioactivity😜, just joking!