Well, the headline speaks for itself 
Taken with Fujifilm X-T1 and vintage Helios 44m-4.
FUJI1392.RAF (31.9 MB)
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Beautiful picture!
I have also those lenses and I love them 
My version using darktable 4.0.0
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Oh, that flare really fits in there!
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Is it converted from RAW also in GIMP?
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Conversion from RAW in Filmulator, which is my standard “go-to” these days as it consistently produces an excellent starting point for other modifications.
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FUJI1392_01.RAF.xmp (91.9 KB)
(Darktable 4.1)
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Lovely shot, thanks for sharing.
A quick edit using dt 3.8
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[edit]: It’s quite impressive you didn’t get an enormous flare shooting with this lens under such conditions. I think nearly all my vintage lenses would either loose a lot of contrast or flare very very badly in such a scene (or both), but your Helios has done really well!
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Have no fear, it is here 
I also have a copy of Samyang 50/1.2 as my “premium” portrait lens - it renders beautifully, but for that glaring-flaring-low contrast vintage look, the Helios and its terrible corner sharpness is irreplaceable 
Anyway, I didn’t expect this shot to become so popular - it wasn’t planned whatsoever, I just went out for a walk and grabbed my camera just in case.
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I remember that lens well. I used it with a Zenit E. This camera sometimes created unexpected extra special effects, because the catch for the film back would open easily, creating artistic fog effects on my photos…
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aha, now it looks like the lenses we know and love! 
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