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Latest Review Posted	Mamiya Sekor / Yashinon Tomioka Macro 60mm F2.8 I have this lens in the Yashinon variant. I was very fortunate to get a copy of this lens in pristine condition. My father always kept his equipment in pristine condition and this lens was well cased and cared for close to 40 years. It was given to me by my father as he no longer is involved in photography. He purchased this lens about 37 years ago. I was with him the day he purchased the lens at a military base exchange. This has become one of my favorite manual focus lenses as it is just fun to use with very predictable results. If you do your part the lens will render fabulous pictures. I believe my father even use to use it for portraits on his film camera something that I have not tried but as I recall it even did that well. First the lens is very sharp even wide open but like others have said it is unique. Its bokeh is very interesting and appealing to me. It just gets sharper as the lens is stopped down. The colors seem to be very accurate and warm. The lens is very heavy and well built I really like the secondary stop down ring. It allows you to focus and do your composition with the lens wide open and a quick turn brings the aperture down to where it was set. The front element of the lens is very deep so flare is well controlled even without a hood. It is probably my easiest lens to focus on my K-X stock focusing screen and even easier on my new focusing screen. Why I don't know but it just seems to be easier to get a nice sharp focus. Here is an example w...

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