Dénia, Spain · Rebuilding after the fire · Run by a working DP

Curated Soviet lenses for cinema.

Helios, Jupiter, Mir and Tair primes. Sourced in Ukraine, serviced and cine-modded in Spain, and put on a camera by a cinematographer before they go up for sale.

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№every listing shows the exact copy, serial visible

6matched primes ready to rent in Los Angeles

What happened

The burned workshop — September 4, 2026 — September 4, 2026. The morning after.

The workshop — before and after — The workshop.

The rehousing set — before and after — The rehousing set.

The camera — before and after — The camera.

I'm Serghei. This is what I did, and what I'm starting again.

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The glass

The glass Hollywood keeps borrowing.

Seven Soviet primes from the 1950s to the 1980s, built on Zeiss formulas and built to be taken apart. We stock the copies worth owning: clean glass, smooth focus, early serials when we can find them.

Helios-44

58mm · f/2

M42 · M39 · 8 or 13 blades

The swirl everyone tries to fake in post. Biotar formula. The early silver 13-blade copies are the ones to want; the 44-2 is the one everyone starts with.

Helios-40

85mm · f/1.5

M39 · M42 · 10 blades

The bokeh monster. Wide open it paints, stopped down it behaves. Early silver copies with the red П and a three-digit serial are the collector's grade.

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Jupiter-9

85mm · f/2

M42 · M39 · LTM · 15 blades

Sonnar formula. Known in the USSR as the king of portrait lenses: soft skin, sharp eyes, round highlights at every stop.

Mir-1

37mm · f/2.8

M39 · M42

Grand Prix at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair. A Flektogon-derived wide that still flares like it's 1958. Our silver Full Metal build starts here.

Mir-20M

20mm · f/3.5

M42

The widest Soviet prime most people have never seen. Real flares, no plugins. Rental houses keep asking for wides; this is the one.

Mir-10A

28mm · f/3.5

M42

Focuses to about 20 cm from the sensor plane and is built like a tank. The wide we put in every set.

Tair-11A

135mm · f/2.8

M42 · 20 blades

Twenty aperture blades. Portraits with perfectly round highlights at any stop, and a long-lens compression the 85s can't give you.

П in red on a KMZ barrel means coated optics · cm-marked focal lengths (8.5cm) are the earliest production · every copy we list shows its serial number

Cinemod

Preserve the character. Improve the tool.

A Soviet prime has the look. It doesn't have the handling: no gears, a tiny front thread, a hood from 1975. Our cinemod fixes the handling and leaves the optics alone. Nothing is cut, glued or re-glassed, so the lens can go back to stock in minutes.

Standard cinemod

Geared and matched

0.8 MOD gear rings on focus and iris
77mm matched front: 49→72 step-up ring and 72→77 hood
Full CLA: cleaned, re-lubricated, adjusted
Polished hood on silver builds, black on black

For owner-operators and mirrorless shooters who want a follow focus and one matte box size across the kit.

Full Metal cinemod

Machined, polished, engraved

Machined metal 0.8 gears instead of printed rings, industry-standard pitch
Polished metal hood with the Vintage4Film badge
Natural anodize that matches early silver barrels
The gear set is removable and transfers to another copy of the same lens

Built to order, singly or as matched sets. Silver on silver is the signature; black is available.

Helios-44 58mm f/2 — Helios-44 · 58mm f/2

Jupiter-9 85mm f/2 — Jupiter-9 · 85mm f/2

Helios-40 85mm f/1.5 silver — Helios-40 · 85mm f/1.5

Tier 1

Stock copy

An attic find, untouched. No gears, a 49mm front, dry grease. Cheap, and it fights you on set.

Tier 2 · where we live

V4F cinemod

Serviced, geared, matched fronts, optics untouched and reversible. A few hundred euros a lens.

Tier 3

Full rehousing

New barrel, PL mount, four figures a lens. Beautiful, permanent, and the glass inside is often the same copy we sell.

Rent · Los Angeles

The Black Set is in Los Angeles.

Six matched primes built to rental-house spec, ready for productions and rental partners in LA. Black barrels across the set; the silver Full Metal builds above are a separate line, built to order.

Status: In Los Angeles
Mount: Sony E, with EF adapter rings included
Fronts: 77mm across the set
Gears: 0.8 MOD on focus and iris, every lens
Kit: Labeled caps, hoods, foam-cut hard case
Terms: Day and week rates for productions. Consignment terms for rental houses.

Ask about the set

20Mir-20M
f/3.5

28Mir-10A
f/3.5

37Mir-1V
f/2.8

58Helios 44-2
f/2

85Jupiter-9
f/2

135Tair-11A
f/2.8

Shot on this glass

See the glass working.

Music videos, commercials and tests shot on the same lenses we sell. If it's in the shop, it has been on a camera first.

Video · Mir-24N · 35mm f/2

Who's behind it

A DP who got carried away.

Vintage4Film is run by Serghei Malii, a cinematographer based on the Costa Blanca in Spain. He shoots commercials and music videos through his production company AnyAngle, and somewhere along the way the lens drawer turned into a business.

The lenses come from Ukraine, where he's from. Each copy is serviced, tested on his own cameras and listed with its serial number and every flaw named. Sets are built the way a rental house would want them, because that's who asked for them first.

Questions get answered by the person who took the lens apart. In English, Spanish, Russian or Ukrainian.

If a lens is wrong for your camera, we'll tell you before you pay.

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