| Author: | | Veteran Member Registered: January, 2011 Location: Minahasa, North Celebes (Sulawesi) Posts: 586 | | Review Date: July 23, 2011 | Recommended | Price: $65.00
| Rating: 9 |
| Pros: | Pleasure to use mechanism, very smooth bokeh, build quality exellent | | Cons: | Sharpness is beatable by cheaper lens | | Sharpness: 7
Aberrations: 8
Bokeh: 10
Handling: 10
Value: 10
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Got this one accidentally when looking for an adaptall mount. Interesting lens, though. The front elements glowing blue, different from my other lenses. Really nice to operate, smooth movement, easy focusing. The adapt-A-matic mount is really simple, in and out, my copy comes with M42 mount. IMHO this lens gives nice results, colors are rich, with 9 aperture blade, bokeh is very pleasant, painting-like. My only complaint is that my copy at wide open gives "glowing" effect and slightly lower sharpness than my other "off-brand" 135mm lens, but that probably could be caused by the fact that my copy suffers from early stage of fungus, otherwise I believe this lens will sing pretty nicely.
Sample shots, all at F/2.8:
 | | | | | | | Site Supporter Registered: November, 2010 Location: California Posts: 2,223 | | Review Date: April 10, 2012 | Recommended | Price: $180.00
| Rating: 10 |
| Pros: | Adapt-a-Matic, the last lens designed w/o computers | | Cons: | None (well, maybe the 1:2 ratio could be 1:1) | | Sharpness: 10
Aberrations: 10
Bokeh: 10
Handling: 10
Value: 10
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After I completed my Takumar collection, I decided to start collecting some of the best lenses such as Adapt-a-Matic. The best of the bunch is 105/2.8, then the 28/2.8, and the 135/2.8, all of them with a great color rendering, and a great image quality. This is a great lens, I recommend it.
| | | | | Site Supporter Registered: June, 2008 Location: Idaho Posts: 2,375
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| | Review Date: October 15, 2017 | Recommended | Price: $50.00
| Rating: 8 |
| Pros: | Sharp, good bokeh, fast | | Cons: | Manual focus and f-stop, close-focusing | | Sharpness: 10
Aberrations: 9
Bokeh: 10
Handling: 7
Value: 10
Camera Used: Pentax K-1
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I had the screw mount version of this from my past days and wanted to convert it to K mount for use with my K-1. After looking for K adapters on ebay, I came across the same lens already with a K mount for a price I couldn't pass by. What I got was a pristine lens along with its case, neither of which appeared to have ever been used.
The lens is very sharp although it falters a bit wide open, but not much (it's use for astro-photos is what made me search for the K mount version). Color is well controlled. Unfortunately, the mount it came with is not the fully coupled adapta-matic mount so focus and aperture settings remain manual with my K-1 (reasons for the lower handling and overall ratings). That said, the lens delivers great images in manual mode. Focus is fine and smooth and the rounded aperture blades deliver good bokeh. Close focus isn't all that great (about 1.5 meters) but acceptable. A nice heavy, all-metal lens.
For the price, I couldn't beat this addition to my lens collection and the fact that it fits my K-1 is an added plus
| | | | | Pentaxian Registered: December, 2007 Location: In the most populated state... state of denial Posts: 1,852 | | Review Date: October 21, 2022 | Recommended | Price: None indicated
| Rating: 9 |
| Pros: | Built, optics | | Cons: | Weight, | | Sharpness: 9
Aberrations: 7
Bokeh: 6
Handling: 10
Value: 10
Camera Used: Spotmatic, K5IIs
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I have the Auto-Tamron F version with 6 blades in the Iris. 4 elements in 4 groups
A very good 135mm from the 1970s which shows CA in the digital cameras
Well built, solid. Focus ring was a bit stiff and the built-in hood had good friction.
Nice color rendition and sharpness, with some blue CA that can be fixed.
Bokeh is so so, like most 135mm.
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