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Forum: Lens Clubs
04-09-2015, 12:39 PM
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Shots some pics with my K20D yesterday, using my super tak 55 1:1.8 ..just a tad sharpened in Dark table ...
 Sibling Rivalry
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Forum: Lens Clubs
03-31-2015, 12:31 AM
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A few images from my first big night outing of the new year, taken with SMC Pentax-M 28mm f/2.8 on K-50:
These images are xposted from "post your photos" section. I really do love this lens for astrolandscapes and astrophotography.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
02-11-2015, 06:42 AM
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My cheap FA 100-300 f4.7-5.8.Sometime it soft but the color is good.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
03-13-2015, 11:30 AM
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Forum: Lens Clubs
02-27-2015, 12:59 AM
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Forum: Lens Clubs
10-25-2014, 07:44 AM
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vanishing point (20-40ltd)
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Forum: Lens Clubs
10-09-2014, 08:49 AM
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I agree; its my best Takumar too. However, I nominated the Super Takumar 50/1.4 (8 elements version) as the greatest lens because not only is it a great optical design and a joy to use, it is such an iconic lens. It helped cement Pentax's reputation as a top lens designer/manufacturer. And it is one of the few Pentax/Takumar lenses that many serious non Pentax camera users know about and want to try.
Anyway, here's a recent snap to show off the pre-set Macro Takumar's image quality...I don't think I've posted it anywhere else:
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Forum: Lens Clubs
07-03-2014, 05:46 AM
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Little pole barn house on the prairie about to be consumed by a big storm a few days ago.
ST 35/3.5 @f8
At work at the airport several hours earlier with the ST SMC 50/1.4
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Forum: Lens Clubs
07-20-2014, 06:11 AM
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ST 35mm 3.5
Western Colorado vista
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Forum: Lens Clubs
07-13-2014, 07:27 PM
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DSC07927 -- S-M-C Takumar 28mm f/3.5
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I went too far in dressing up my takumar lenses on a red body. The M42 to C/Y adapter is now stuck on my Contax body, sometime it loosen up and sometime it get stuck. The stuck adapter reminds me of 3rd party M42 to K adapter
Now my Contax body is turned into a m42 body with a deep scratch from my attempt to remove the stuck adapter. The Takumar in the picture is the Super-Takumar 50mm f/1.4 with 8-element.
[update] A spanner helped me to release the stuck adapter from the red Contax body. I love my Takumar and I do strange things to find a non-Pentax body to dress it up. Shame on me....
All product shots were made with S-M-C Takumar 50mm f/4.0 Macro
Cheers,
Hin
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
02-18-2014, 01:32 PM
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I can definitely confirm that it works with my K10D and firmware 1.31.
Create the file MODSET.TXT (not only MODSET as described above) on SD card with following content:
[OPEN_DEBUG_MENU]
The text must end with an ASCII ceriage return / line feed LR LF (that is hex code 0D 0A)
I made it by editing the file while the sd card was in the K10D and the camera was connected via USB. I used the ordinary Windows notepad.
After safing the file disconnect the camera and switch off. The debug menu opens now when you start the camera with open sd card door.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
02-02-2014, 05:49 AM
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SMC Takumar 2.5/135 v.II
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
01-26-2014, 09:51 AM
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Not sure if this is surrealistic, but when messing around in Photoshop, I could tell it was different with some extreme lighting effects.
2 square nails in some very old wood.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
11-02-2013, 05:21 PM
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An alternate version of my "Single in November" shot, cross-posted from there:
Piper (Closeup) by g026r, on Flickr
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Forum: Lens Clubs
10-27-2013, 07:00 AM
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Forum: Lens Clubs
09-13-2013, 12:37 PM
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Takumar 58mm f2,4 on Canon EOS 5dmkII
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Forum: Lens Clubs
09-13-2013, 10:20 AM
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I had been waiting for almost a month for the moon-between weather, smoke, daytime moon, etc. Much better than the F100-300 I had tried before. Tele-Tak 400/5.6 ISO320 1/80 F16 Heavy Crop
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Forum: Lens Clubs
09-26-2013, 06:20 PM
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Forum: Lens Clubs
10-07-2013, 09:33 AM
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If you can't afford that 100/2, you can always try the Auto-Takumar 55/2, for the heady price of around $70. Here are a couple of my photos from the Single in October challenge:
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Forum: Lens Clubs
07-12-2013, 05:29 AM
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Yesterday I received a copy of the new Exel magazine (battered and bent, thanks to the post office) with a spread of my photo of the Tacony Palmyra Bridge, taken with a K-7 and the 18-55 kit lens:
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Forum: Lens Clubs
07-07-2013, 08:59 PM
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
06-30-2013, 05:46 PM
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That's an odd quote. The company I work for processes high temperature plastics. Granted, plastic can very different than glass but having bubbles in our plastic is actually a sign of poor quality control. Bubbles will cause an inconsistency in factors such as thermal expansion and mechanical strength among other things. We get rid of them by putting the hot plastics under vacuum and the bubbles get sucked up to the top. It sort of looks like the plastic is boiling as the bubbles at the top pop. From there the plastic is ground, machined, etc. The plastic ends up being whole, solid, complete, and void-free.
I would wonder if the bubbles would cause shifts and jerks in the index of refraction as the light passes through the glass.
From my own experience I would avoid something where I could see bubbles.
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