[Mike Cash]

Worked just fine!

Pentax K20D
S-M-C Takumar 105/2.8

[SteveM]

Received a SMC Tak 120/2.8 last week...and took a couple of minutes with it in the yard....my current favorite lens Looking forward to having more time soon... Taken with a k20d.

[eccs19]

100mm Takumar.

This guy came out of no where, and totally unexpected. Didn't have time to make any camera adjustments. I just guessed at the focus. Got 2 shots off. 1 was WAY out of focus, and this one surprisingly not all that bad. Heavily cropped. He was a ways away.

[SteveM]

I stripped and cleaned out some fungus in this lens recently - it took little coating off one of the elements but it doesn't seem to affect the performance.

How difficult is this to do? I've always presumed you couldn't get them apart properly....

[ovim]

smc: I've opened (and put back together) a 1.8/55mm, 1.4/50, 3.5/135mm and a couple of other lenses and it's not that hard. Don't know about the 3.5/28mm but I'm quessing it's not much different than the other Taks.

Here's instructions for 1.4/50mm, click.

[polito53]

How difficult is this to do? I've always presumed you couldn't get them apart properly....

Ovim's quite right - it's not rocket science, but I still managed to trash my first attempt , a 3.5/35mm. I used too much acetone, de-cemented the rear elements and took the coatings off (at least, that's what I think happened)! When I put it back together and tried it the shots came out fine, but I've since used it for parts.

Getting the trim ring out is the first step and for me is usually the hardest part - if the filter ring is damaged you could have real problems. It took me hours to get it out of the 3.5/28 using the M42 rear lens cap - a perfect fit for a 49mm filter size - and a rubber glove!

Best advice is try and old scrapper first, you've got nothing to lose

[Mike Cash]

Pentax K20D
S-M-C Takumar 105/2.8

[Nesster]

Mike- I thought for a second you'd got the Takumar fish-eye as the image was loading... who needs a stinkin fish eye when there are these mirrors?

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Another Flower Shot, yes. I'm in photographic doldrums, my photos just aren't coming out well... so here's a S-M-C Takumar 105/2.8 with a 20mm extension tube, ES-II, Fuji 400H film.

[eccs19]

Couple shots from my Takumar 200mm F3.5

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[richard64]

Saturday was Shakespeare's birthday parade through Startford upon Avon. My son was in the parade so I was there too. The parade starts at Shakespeare's birthplace and ends at his grave at the parish church were everyone lays flowers (they have to be yellow or blue). The parade is multi-national with representatives from most of the London embassies. There are actors from the RSC and alsol worthies from local government and local organisations. At about the halfway they pause at the Grammar School, where the entire school (all the teachers and students) lead the parade to church. I rather like the idea that the school (which is publicly funded and open to all) takes precedence over the local worthies and London bigwigs.

I decided to shoot with my Super Takumar 35/3.5. The weather was mixed with some overcast, but mostly sunny, but with a hood there was no problem with flare. The focal length was good for the subject. I also found that the lens produced some very good colours and was sharp across the frame. Now the bad news. I decided to set the lens on the hyperfocal distance and just concentrate on composition and exposure. I set the lens to f8 and distance to 5m (the orange numbers setting). According to the DOF scale this meant that everything from 2.5m to infinity would be in focus, but I found that the nearest distance was further away. In fact, most of the pictures had the opposite side of the street (5m) in perfect focus, and the people in front were OOF. (Sadly there was no point in me checking the LCD since I didn't have my reading glasses at hand.) I found that if I converted to B&W I could get away with a bit more sharpening of the middle ground in post processing. Anyway, it also gives the images a 60's feel.

Super Takumar 35/3.5 @f8

The grammar school at the head of the parade. The Guild Chapel is in the distance with the original Grammar School immediately next to it.



Every boy has to place a posy of flowers on Shakespeare's grave. I am sure it is character forming.



Later on, the rest of the parade. This one shows people from the embassies of Serbia and Sri Lanka.



Richard

[IS050]

Super Takumar 105mm f2.8

[Mike Cash]

Another Flower Shot, yes. I'm in photographic doldrums, my photos just aren't coming out well...

That's the only thing about you I don't like: Your bad shots are better than my good shots.

Pentax K20D
S-M-C Takumar 105/2.8

[Nesster]

Aw, Mike, that's not true. Besides, my bad shots look like they belong on the bottom of a cat box... so unsharp, usually due to camera shake, if not idiot focusing. I don't show them but rather scrape dirt over them and try to ignore the smell...

Here's one that doesn't suck sharpness wise, from the tiny AUTO Takumar 200/5.6 preset:




By the way, a guy over at mflenses is selling M42 K adapters with an inner lip to hold the M42 pin IN - or mostly IN depending on lens. So M42's without a/m switches become usable. Guy's in Hong Kong, hasn't yet replied to my PM, but I'll order one to try out.

[Mike Cash]

That 200/5.6 was one of the first lenses I wanted, based on seeing samples online. Still haven't gotten one. LBA fuel is the last thing I needed.

Pentax K20D
S-M-C Takumar 105/2.8

[MSM]

Went out to try my hand at the Taks again. SuperTak 50mm/1.4



p.s. How are you all posting the larger images? I uploaded my images here based on the allowed size for a jpeg. Are you linking from another site? I don't have a flickr account or the like. I do have my Apple (dotmac) made webpage, though. I don't think I can link from it, however. I know many of you easily have posted enough image to fill the alloted MB space here.