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S-M-C/Super-Takumar 135mm F3.5 | | | | Sharpness | | | Aberrations | | | Bokeh | | | Handling | | | Value | |
| | Reviews | Views | Date of last review | | 49 | 383,873 | Sat August 28, 2021 | |  | | Recommended By | Average Price | Average User Rating | | 92% of reviewers | $46.28 | 8.53 | | | | 
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| Author: | | Junior Member Registered: September, 2007 Location: Sydney Posts: 30 | | Review Date: September 20, 2007 | Recommended
| Rating: 10 |
| Pros: | Sharp wide open, nice Flat field, easy to use. | | Cons: | Very few, Lens Hood is long. | |
Well I have owned one of the Super Multi Coated f3.5 versions of these lenses for many years and Overall, it is a really Nice lens to use.
As noted it is easy to focus, superb in fact and in my Opinion, has excellent colour rendition and Contrast.
I have found it to be beautifully Sharp even wide open and is one of my favourite lenses.
It has a nice 'Balance', when mounted on an Older 35mm Pentax and is easy to use at Longer exposure times or slower films.
Highly recommended.
| | | | | | | Pentaxian Registered: April, 2007 Location: Toronto/Victoria Posts: 460 | | Review Date: April 22, 2007 | Recommended | Price: $30.00
| Rating: 8 |
| Pros: | Compact, smooth focusing, sharp | | Cons: | Finicky to use | |
Maybe it's the lack of SMC, but I find this lens produced subdued colours which I don't mind. Much easier to PP later.
All apertures are excellent. Nice compressed view.
The focusing is quite smooth, maybe a tad looser than my M50/1.4 which is my reference for manual focusing.
I'm a bit lazy so I don't like the way it meters so I generally use it wide open all the time. Thankfully I have no quality issues with that.
| | | | | Senior Member Registered: December, 2006 Location: Chicago, IL Posts: 143 | | Review Date: January 16, 2007 | Not Recommended | Price: $10.00
| Rating: 6 |
| Pros: | | | Cons: | M42 mount | | Sharpness: 6
Aberrations: 7
Bokeh: 7
Handling: 6
Value: 6
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S/N series 1740000 Good for a starving artist, if the artist had a Pentax.
You want to use this lens with your subject in bright daylight. Otherwise, shade or dim light will show off its lack of contrast and softness. Best used for big things not too far away on sunny days, stopped down a few stops,, in my opinion.
Closest focus point is 5 feet. Not hard to focus.
So far, this is the best image I've made with this lens after PP to gain contrast.
http://www.snowdomer.com/jpg/tiger135_crop.jpg | | | | | Pentaxian Registered: September, 2006 Location: Horn Island, Torres Straits, Q Posts: 4,715 | | Review Date: January 10, 2007 | Recommended
| Rating: 8 |
| Pros: | Great IQ, great bokeh, quite sharp | | Cons: | Heavy, manual, non SMC | | Sharpness: 7
Aberrations: 7
Bokeh: 9
Handling: 8
Value: 9
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I have the Super Takumar edition passed on to me with my father's Spotmatic.
This edition has a different lens grip with long knurls and no rubber cover. The lens hood is a screw on design which reverses over the lens barrel for storage staying in place by friction, not bayonet. With the narrow filter size (Pentax Standard for the time 49mm thread) it seems to make the hood into quite a long narrow tube even though it is only 50mm long.
Regarding IQ, it has all been said in the K Mount M135 review as the optics are the same, allowing for the fact that this edition does flare more easily due to the lack of SMC coating. I never use it without the lens hood and avoid pointing into sun or suns reflective surfaces unless that flaring is what I am looking for. Six aperture blades quite heavily curved on their inside edge which contributes to the great bokeh in this lens. 3.5-22 aperture range.
It is heavy so I only put it in my kit if I decide ahead of time that I want to make use of its distinctive characteristics. The DA50-200 covers the same territory more efficiently and is lighter to carry. The torque this lens puts on the tripod mount is not a threat to the camera structure due to its small size. I find that the lens is far easier to focus when on a tripod due to its 200mm (SLR) angle of view. Focusing manually is fine as the focus ring has a long throw (340degrees) making very fine adjustments possible.
These lenses are relatively easy to come by and are just fun to have if you enjoy precision optics for the technology as much as for their optical performance.
An example is here: http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n73/ArjayBee/IMGP4871_web.jpg | | |
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