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04-12-2019, 01:06 PM - 4 Likes   #5986
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QuoteOriginally posted by wkraus Quote
Lovely combo, congratulations!
However, I would assume that the hood you pictured is quite a bit too long for the A50/1.2. You might check this using the method I explained here a while ago.
QuoteOriginally posted by stevebrot Quote
There is another photo that shows the length to be quite typical and similar to what I use when shooting film at that focal length.

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BTW...cool method for checking hood/filter stack depth.


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On my K 50/1.4 I use the hood that Pentax made for the K 85/1.8 and 105/2.8. It works great on full frame 35mm.




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Just how big is the 50/f1.2? This big...


SMC-K 50/f1.2


SMC-M 50/f1.4
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My trust Pentax MX, I used it extensively during my last year of my photography degree and shot a whole documentary project with it. The prints are a few of final images I chose at the end of the project that I printed in my darkroom.

When I first bought it during my third year of my degree, I was told that it could do with a CLA but it was working. So it arrived, I ignored the warnings of a CLA from the seller and I loaded the first roll of film...and halfway through it jammed. whoops! I then sent it in to Harrow Technical in London for repair and CLA. It had a new cocking rack assembly fitted and it works and feels like an absolute dream, that was a year and half ago now.
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I like the looks of this combo. Maybe not useful handheld but..

Takumar 500mm F5, version 2 (from 1961-1965) on a Asahi Pentax H2 second version from 1961-1962

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QuoteOriginally posted by Baard-Einar Quote
Maybe not useful handheld but..
Someone out there must have tried.
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QuoteOriginally posted by edom31 Quote
Someone out there must have tried.
It just screams, "FAST film"!
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QuoteOriginally posted by goatsNdonkey Quote
It just screams, "FAST film"!
I mean f/5 is plenty fast for outdoors on 35mm at for iso under 800

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QuoteOriginally posted by Turbotak Quote
I mean f/5 is plenty fast for outdoors on 35mm at for iso under 800
I imagine that f/5 on that lens is not as fast as it sounds. I guess you'd probably want to shoot it f/8 to f/16 for good sharpness.
I have the M 400/5.6 and it's best from f/11 to f/16. If this lens is similar and you want to handhold with a shutter speed of 1/500s, you'd probably want to use iso400 film at minimum, even in sunny 16 conditions.
iso 400 film would give you f/16 at 1/500, however focus on a subject in deep shadow and you'll lose a couple of stops. Not to mention darker conditions than sunny 16.

Anyway, would love to see some photos from this combo @Baard-Einar
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QuoteOriginally posted by Turbotak Quote
I mean f/5 is plenty fast for outdoors on 35mm at for iso under 800
I was thinking of iso 800 or higher, especially if you wanted to hand hold that focal length and also needed to stop down a couple of stops and also if you were getting a bit shaky trying to use a lens that heavy.

But, heck, I'd try to hand hold it with 100 iso film at least once!
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QuoteOriginally posted by stevebrot Quote
Agreed! The larger question is whether you will mate it to an Industrar-61 or Jupiter-8.


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Here you go Steve

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Here you go Steve
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QuoteOriginally posted by goatsNdonkey Quote
It just screams, "FAST film"!
Let's keep in mind this lens likely was used in attempts to capture wildlife photos for publication. Breakthroughs in lenses for small cameras meant new things could be tried and I would think Kodachrome II (25 ASA) was used with the lens stopped down a bit at no more than 1/30 or maybe 1/60 of a second and often much slower. No useable much faster color films were available until years later.
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QuoteOriginally posted by From1980 Quote
Let's keep in mind this lens likely was used in attempts to capture wildlife photos for publication. Breakthroughs in lenses for small cameras meant new things could be tried and I would think Kodachrome II (25 ASA) was used with the lens stopped down a bit at no more than 1/30 or maybe 1/60 of a second and often much slower. No useable much faster color films were available until years later.
My post, which you quoted, was a response to two posts just prior to it which brought up trying to hand-hold that lens. Obviously, few people would have tried to do that, certainly not pros.
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QuoteOriginally posted by goatsNdonkey Quote
My post, which you quoted, was a response to two posts just prior to it which brought up trying to hand-hold that lens. Obviously, few people would have tried to do that, certainly not pros.
At the 1968 Democratic convention David Douglas Duncan got many spectacular “head shots” of Hubert Humphrey and others using a LeicaflexSL and 400mm f6.8 Telyt lens, hand-held in the convention center. These were tack-sharp, even printed 16x20. He said he exposed Tri-x at 1/125 and f6.8 - but the indoor lighting was bright for the TV cameras of the time. I have one of those Telyt lenses, and use with its included shoulder stock - but Duncan didn’t use the stock. The lens is long, but light, with a “trombone” focus.
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QuoteOriginally posted by TomB_tx Quote
At the 1968 Democratic convention David Douglas Duncan got many spectacular “head shots” of Hubert Humphrey and others using a LeicaflexSL and 400mm f6.8 Telyt lens, hand-held in the convention center. These were tack-sharp, even printed 16x20. He said he exposed Tri-x at 1/125 and f6.8 - but the indoor lighting was bright for the TV cameras of the time. I have one of those Telyt lenses, and use with its included shoulder stock - but Duncan didn’t use the stock. The lens is long, but light, with a “trombone” focus.
Was the Tri-X iso 400, or the earlier slightly slower stuff? Did you push it? Back when newspapers were mostly in black-and-white Tri-X was a film used for published photos, and an early fast film.

I have hand-held my Spiratone Ultratel f8 500mm mirror lens on one of my Pentax cropped-sensor DSLRs, at iso 100 to 400. It is long and heavy for a mirror lens, but the main issue is it having the angle of view of a 750mm on those cameras, terribly magnifying any photographer shaking. Still, I got a few good shots, shooting subjects that were not moving.
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