Well, the headline speaks for itself 
Taken with Fujifilm X-T1 and vintage Helios 44m-4.
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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?
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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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…
aha, now it looks like the lenses we know and love! 
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