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Forum: Lens Clubs
12-31-2011, 01:55 PM
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Some of my favorites of December were taken with my Super-Tak 50/1.4:
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Forum: Lens Clubs
12-12-2011, 02:39 PM
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A few random shots just messing around while on a study break :)
Both super-tak 50/1.4, wide-open.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
07-22-2011, 10:42 PM
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Thanks! Eagles : D It was quite epic.
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07-21-2011, 07:39 PM
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Nice ones!
Some from a recent roadtrip, all with the S-M-C Tak 28/3.5.
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07-07-2011, 11:38 AM
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Absolutely love the second one. Great shot
Really like the composition in your first one, and the second one has a very nice pop to it (:
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Forum: Lens Clubs
06-04-2011, 09:56 AM
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We had a bit of fun mutilating this doll for a school project....
K-5, S-T 50/1.4 :cool:
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Forum: Lens Clubs
05-15-2011, 01:15 PM
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It's been way too long without shooting my Taks :) though, for a school assignment, I'll be making a film with these lenses soon
Both with the 50mm f1.4.
My tak 50/1.4 always continues to surprise me. I call it soft wide open, it gives me this. I say its flare is ugly, it turns this shot epic. Then once I use it a lot, all my shots from it turn out crappy.
Regardless, this 45-year old lens has great qualities and once in a while gives me shots that just sends me to photographic nirvana
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Forum: Lens Clubs
04-10-2011, 10:47 PM
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Thank you porga! :)
Niiiiiiiiiceeee....sister. :p and shot too
Thanks V5!
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Forum: Lens Clubs
04-09-2011, 11:01 PM
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Thank you!
Thanksss
Thank you fig! I agree, the speed kinda turns me off at times...But then that dock shot was at ISO 1600, and I'm amazed how clean it is at 100%. Really like your street cleaner shot, the OOFness really adds something to it IMO
Hmm that's interesting, I've actually been taking a look at those vivitars...Good to know :cool:
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Forum: Lens Clubs
04-09-2011, 11:43 AM
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Nice shot arjay!
Some from the S-M-C Takumar 28/3.5. While I don't share the same complaints about sharpness of this lens as some other people (I find it quite great, actually), sometimes this lens just feels all wrong. Way too slow for a "normal" for my liking, noticeable barrel distortion....but the focal length is just too awesome. Going out with only this lens on me is a joy. Though this just makes me wish for full-frame even more, so that I could use my FA43 like this....
All with the 28/3.5.
"Early Worm"
"The Mariner"
"Waiting, Waiting..."
"NO PARKING."
"Til Forever"
"One"
"Haven"
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Forum: Lens Clubs
04-01-2011, 05:28 PM
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Agreed, though I think I'm a bit unhealthy with this. Seriously, while reading a book or whatever, I'll just sit there and spin my super-tak 50's focussing ring...:o
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Forum: Lens Clubs
03-25-2011, 08:24 PM
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Another from my Single in March challenge:
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03-24-2011, 10:34 AM
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Porga, Alisant, love those portraits/candids there (:
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03-24-2011, 10:30 AM
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Replying all to my threads that I need to reply to at once, it seems I have a trend here in saying.....thanks very much, v5 : D
Thanks eddie! Looking forward to seeing those shots (: Putting a tak only on your camera for a month is pretty interesting, cause for me, as soon as I put my modern lenses back on I somehow forget to meter :p
Nice stuff yeatzee!
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Forum: Lens Clubs
03-21-2011, 08:33 PM
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My shot today with the super-tak 50/1.4, taken for the SiM challenge.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
03-16-2011, 09:53 PM
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Sounds good, looking to see those shots!
Also, the lens database puts the 300/4 at just under a kilogram. Sometimes I wonder if all this "compact" stuff we keep swooning for isn't making us all weak compared to our cannon-carrying canon peers :p
And, yeatzee, you'll need to up the ante now on your macros - time to start reversing on your 300mm! :lol:
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Forum: Lens Clubs
03-13-2011, 12:48 AM
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A while ago, I posted about some discoloration from my super-tak 50/1.4 that caused it to do this:  when shot into the sun. I sent it back to the store, who refused to refund it but sent it to the repair shop. They could find anything wrong with it, and I've lived with it since. In practice, it's only shown up on a grand total of two shots (out of quite a few now, considering it's my single-in-march lens), a good number of which were shot into the sun.
However, in this shot, I think it (you can see it in the top left) adds to the shot quite a bit. When converted in this way, it adds some film-like quality to it that I don't mind at all....
One of my extras from single in march.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
03-12-2011, 01:18 PM
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I guess the build thing is a each-their-own thing, then :o I love it though.
Personally, I actually don't find Av mode amazing (though YMMV, for all I know my K-x is screwy), because (and I'm mainly basing this on my 50/1.4 here) the exposure can be a little inconsistent across the range, due to the deceptive brightness increase/decrease at various apertures.
For example, at f1.4 to f2.4, the viewfinder barely changes in brightness, and so the exposure isn't changed at all, but the final result is noteably different in luminance. In general, my K-x overexposes 1.4-2, 2.8-4 is good, and 5.6 and up underexposes. Again, YMMV as my k-x doesn't have the same metering system as your k-7/k20d (I believe).
Sidenote - I just tried out Av mode some more and it seems more consistent than what I wrote above. 1.4-2, and 5.6 and up are exposed brightly, and the settings in between are slightly underexposed, but the key is that they're underexposed uniformly. So you could probably get used to how your camera reacts to each aperture and pretty quickly set some exp comp (and I'll mention one last time, only if it even does this on your camera).
Personally, I prefer to use my taks like presets (none of them are). Select the aperture I want - 1.4 for dreaminess, 2-5.6 for tack sharp, or 8/11 for DoF. Slide it down to manual, meter it (for some reason my metering in manual is much more accurate than Av - Av tells me to do a 1/50, which is quite underexposed, and manual gives me 1/10, which is just about perfect (at f4)). Slide it up to auto, focus, and soon as I've got it, back down to manual and take the shot.
Sounds cumbersome but I've gotten pretty quick at it.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
03-12-2011, 12:12 PM
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Hey Yeatzee, I haven't had that many M (and no K) series lenses before, but I did have an M50/1.7 and M200/4. From my memory of them, the taks blow them out of the water in terms of feel (though it does help that I absolutely love the fluted focus grip of the Super-taks - it's for that reason alone that I'd prefer my Super-tak 50/1.4 over the SMC, which has a K-like rubberized grip. And also for that reason that the S-M-C would be an awesome best of both worlds).
In terms of image quality, well, for the 50s the optical formulas are essentially identical anyways. That said, I recently took a shot with my ST50/1.4 for single in march whose sharpness at 100% was one of very few that I've taken, with any of my lenses, that made me really stop and go WOW, for no reason other than sharpness. Not saying that Ms and Ks can't do that, that was just my recent experience.
@Rendering - it does kind of survive through post - esp harsh bokeh, that sort of thing. How a lens handles colours (ie proportionally to one another) does survive through post too, but that's a bit more iffy.
To be honest, I wouldn't pick based on IQ - they're within hairs of each other that sample variation would push it either way. What I WOULD decide with is
1) build quality (which is truly superb. The Ms, I wouldn't know about the Ks, have nothing on it, and I was impressed by my first M.
2) Metering's a lot more quiet than the M and K lenses because the camera doesn't stop down the aperture when you green button - you just do it yourself with the lens (an adapted takumar may as well be a takumar that you're holding in your hand and fiddling with the aperture ring - it has no connections to the body at all). So metering is silent, more or less, which does help (my friends often got fooled by metering with an M and assumed I'd already taken the shot).
3) Nostalgia/heritage - these are more fun things for me, but it is interesting to know how much history is behind lenses you're using. Though you have some great legacy lenses too so this might not be as big for you.
I do admit that the adaptor is pretty annoying, but that's why I have two trios that I decide between - my modern lenses, or my taks. That way, I never have to fiddle with the adaptor ring (this is for when I'm going out for a hike or whatever). I try not to mix moderns with taks, as the frustration of getting the ring out of the way and keeping it dust-safe is a bit annoying when I just want to get a shot.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
03-06-2011, 11:16 PM
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A few more with my taks, here's a bunch from my S-T50/1.4:
6-shot vertical pano
The star of the show from that day, picked for my Single in March photo:
The SMCT 135/3.5 was brought along as well, and pulled its weight pretty damn well:
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Forum: Lens Clubs
03-06-2011, 12:41 AM
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Took out my new SMC-T 135/3.5 for a spin today (which completes my takumar trio of 28/50/135)
Stopped down, this thing is SHARP!
Crop of the above...
And wide open, its bokeh isn't horrible, though in trying scenes it does get busy. This is pretty nice though:
Sometimes it has a dreamy look wide open, and sometimes it's sharp. Opinion at 3.5 is undecided yet, but so far so good overall :D
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Forum: Lens Clubs
03-01-2011, 11:37 PM
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My first shot for the single in march challenge, I actually quite liked it for a shot I scrounged the house for:
Taken with the ST50/1.4 at 2.8 (+/- a click)
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Forum: Lens Clubs
02-24-2011, 09:39 PM
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"Office Woes" 
Somewhat inspired by a short story we had to read for class, Japanese Quince. |
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Forum: Lens Clubs
02-21-2011, 06:17 PM
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Vancouver's being hit by some pretty heavy snow; the 3 days immediately preceding today were totally sunny and could've been mistaken for summer. While some of us dread walking to school with soggy shoes, other people eagerly watch the snow fall....
Taken with the ST50/1.4
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Forum: Lens Clubs
01-30-2011, 08:06 PM
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So here I am, practicing math questions for my upcoming mid-term. 30 seconds later, I find myself working the focus wheel on my super-tak 50/1.4, with no memory of ever picking it up.
The same thing happens any time I'm writing an essay or doing any homework. Why can't it be in shabbier condition, or less smooth? My modern lenses are too loose in their focusing, and the SMCT 28/3.5 I have feels a bit sludgier; the Tak is perfect. So perfect, that I'm going to fail this exam....:(
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