Site Supporter Registered: November, 2010 Location: California Posts: 2,223
4 users found this helpful
| | Review Date: October 8, 2013 | Recommended | Price: $320.00
| Rating: 10 |
| Pros: | Very small and cute, easy to use, it looks like a Leica lens | | Cons: | M37, it needs a $3 adapter ring (Ebay) to M42 | | Sharpness: 10
Aberrations: 10
Bokeh: 10
Handling: 10
Value: 10
Camera Used: K5
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I bought this lens for portraits, and it is good. It has something that makes the person good look. Wide open is not the sharpest, but at 2.8 starts to show sharpness and by 4 is absolutely sharp and keeping a great bokeh. I will post photos later, once I have enough to compare.
K5+Takumar58mmf2.4-Hybiscus1-1 by Palenquero, on Flickr
K5+Takumar58mmf2.4-Hybiscus2-1 by Palenquero, on Flickr
K5+Takumar58mmf2.4-Lamp1-1 by Palenquero, on Flickr
K5+Takumar58mmf2.4-Fuente1-1 by Palenquero, on Flickr
K5+Takumar58mmf2.4-VitoNewSweater1-1 by Palenquero, on Flickr
K5+Takumar58mmf2.4-NavelOranges1-1 by Palenquero, on Flickr
May 2014- Update
This small little gem is giving me as much satisfaction as the Asahi Takumar 58/2. I made a comparison between the two lenses, the Asahi-Takumar 58mm f2 and the Asahi-Kogaku Takumar 58mm f2.4:
@f/11
 1-Takumar58mmf2@f11-Casita-1 by Palenquero, on Flickr
 2-Takumar58mmf2.4@f11-Casita-1 by Palenquero, on Flickr
@f/8
 1-Takumar58mmf2@f8-Casita-1 by Palenquero, on Flickr
 2-Takumar58mmf2.4@f8-Casita-1 by Palenquero, on Flickr
@f/5.6
 1-Takumar58mmf2@f5.6-Casita-1 by Palenquero, on Flickr
 2-Takumar58mmf2.4@f5.6-Casita-1 by Palenquero, on Flickr
@f/4
 1-Takumar58mmf2@f4-Casita-1 by Palenquero, on Flickr
 2-Takumar58mmf2.4@f4-Casita-1 by Palenquero, on Flickr
@f/2.8
 1-Takumar58mmf2.8@f2.8-Casita-1 by Palenquero, on Flickr
 2-Takumar58mmf2.4@f2.8-Casita-1 by Palenquero, on Flickr
@f/2 - WIDE OPEN
 1-Takumar58mmf2@f2-Casita-1 by Palenquero, on Flickr
@f/2.4-WIDE OPEN
 2-Takumar58mmf2.4@f2.4-Casita-1 by Palenquero, on Flickr
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Junior Member Registered: April, 2011 Location: Shanghai Posts: 46
1 user found this helpful
| | Review Date: April 9, 2020 | Recommended | Price: $450.00
| Rating: 10 |
| Pros: | small but lovely build, good photo quality & rare?!!!!! | | Cons: | None | | Sharpness: 10
Aberrations: 9
Bokeh: 9
Handling: 10
Value: 9
Camera Used: K5
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I always wondered when finally someone who actually owns an "m42" takumar 58/2.4 will post his/her lens and test picture here....I've been waiting for years.....nothing happened. So here I come.
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Site Supporter Registered: April, 2016 Posts: 201
1 user found this helpful
| | Review Date: July 25, 2016 | Recommended
| Rating: 10 |
| Pros: | natural reproduction of depth | | Cons: | no | | Sharpness: 10
Aberrations: 10
Handling: 8
Value: 10
Camera Used: K1
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  I bought this lens, because I had read about the Voigtlaender Heliar, which had been a favorite lens for professionals in the last century. Indeed in any situation with soft or front light it is a superb lens, which has no faults and the images have a kind of three-dimensional aspect. This lens is one of my very best lenses.
The handling rating is caused by :
- the focusing index is not on the upper side
- the flange of the lens look like to miss 0.5mm for the standard with the mounted M37 adapter (my lens has a chrome barrel and is a M37 lens)
- the lens does not protect the contacts of the camera and a small amount of light could pass inside the camera via the original M42 adapter because the barrel diameter of the Kogaku lens is much smaller
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