These prices are insane. You can buy all (most?) of the lenses they’re recreating for a fraction of the price and adapt them to a mirrorless camera no problem. I bought a Helios 44-2 recently for $100 and adapted it to my camera for like $15.
"The Helios 44-2 is a very popular Soviet-era lens among cinematographers" - yeah, not like there were any other Soviet lens available there. Legendary in this context means the only ones anyone there could get their hands on. I bought Zenit ET with those and can't say they were amazing compared to my Nikon or Sigma lens. Exotic factor is likely in the play here.
What was so amazing about this company's soviet era camera lenses?
I googled it and all the pages were just this company saying "Yeah! We rehouse amazing soviet era lenses in modern lens bodies!"
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Which is cool, but where's the "legendary" part of the story? Like, why would you want one as opposed to another lens?
Meyer Optik Görlitz is another company bringing back vintage lenses. They carry what in my opinion is the best of all vintage lenses, the Jena Biotar 1.5/75
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I googled it and all the pages were just this company saying "Yeah! We rehouse amazing soviet era lenses in modern lens bodies!" | Which is cool, but where's the "legendary" part of the story? Like, why would you want one as opposed to another lens?