This is my Soviet lens test: Helios 44m-4 58mm f/2, which came as a gift along with the old Zenit camera. I was not expecting much, however I found it is still a pretty nice lens, especially when I nail the focus right.

In some shots exposure is too high as the sun came up and did not want to shoot in all open aperture. Focus is very shallow when fully open.

This lens is not a Russian beauty as sometimes I find it designated. It is perhaps World's cheapest lens and soviets produced heaps of it. It is a far from perfect copy of some Zeiss lens. And it is interesting because it is so imperfect. Still pretty cinematic and sometimes sharp results on Olympus EM-1 M2 camera, shot indoors, in the morning sun.

If you want to know more about terrible Soviet photo equipment please read this piece from Roman Yarovitcyn Life as a 1990s Russian newspaper photographer, shooting on a cheap Soviet camera.

Documentary film

DIRECTED by Marcel Łoziński

A film that came about by accident, while making another documentary. It is the story of a typical opportunist who always managed to fit in with the times in which he lived. "Hero" tells without any sense of shame how he sewed uniforms for German officers and now runs a thriving restaurant. Despite the rather short speech, it is worth reflecting more deeply on the attitude of the "king" of life....

1978 Marcel Łoziński Rzeszów (Short Film Review)- Main Award

Mergaitės rašė laiškus Kalėdų seneliui ir ėjo ant kalnų su pingviniuku ir rogėmis

2020 kilom oro balionu pažiūrėti Vilniaus.

Seniai nebuvo tiek sniego kaip kad 2021 žiemą, iškart po Naujųjų.

Who wins? An elderly gentleman or a brand new flying machine? Watch until the end to find out.

This is a timelapse recorded over Göreme, a tourism centre in Kapadokya region in Turkey May 2021.

These are my favourite moments from a new South Park episode called Vaccination Special. It is both incredible and funny how every person in South Park got angry and manipulative while waiting to get back to some sort of normalcy. The attitude towards old people who got vaccinated first and old people's actions captures some unspoken tensions of our time.

You can (and I believe you should) watch full episode on the official site southparq.com