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SMC Takumar 1:3.5 / 35

To complete the kit accompanying the paternal SP500 after 55mm and 135mm , the youngest: a wide angle, 35mm. 35mm, it is not very wide angle, but it is a focal length that I like because, unlike 28mm, deformations straight lines (barrel effect) are not too pronounced. Practice, especially for photos of the building.

• Type: Fixed focal lens manual
• Manufacturer: Asahi Pentax
• Model: Super-Takumar 1:3.5 / 35
• Focal Length: 35mm filter holder
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• 49mm Aperture: f/3.5 to 16

A small feature of this range of objectives: the objective of medium length is physically longer than the general angle. Pictured from left, they are focal increased: 35, 55 and 135mm, left to right. This is not the case with ranges latest: hunting millimeter and progress of optical helped shorten the 50mm, while the large angles are nearly incompressible: the distance to the film being in any way higher than their focal length, they contain necessarily divergent lenses to compensate for this difference. That is why the goals most compact frame Pentax are now 40mm: the shorter focal length for which we can do without negative element in front of goal.

This is not troublesome for the money by cons for SLR APS-C is a bit annoying, since the objective corresponding to a 50mm would be 28mm, which one would like that it is the smallest (and most open) possible ... No simple remedy to this concern, but much closer to the front of the sensor housing, thus eliminating the compatibility of these cases with optic old - a strong point of Pentax in the heart of its marketing communications ...

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SMC Takumar 1:3.5 / 135

The following objectives SP500 : after 55mm the 135mm. A short telephoto lens handy, cf. what I said about SMC Pentax-M 135mm f: 3.5 .

• Type: manual lens fixed focus
• Manufacturer: Asahi Pentax
• Model: Super-Takumar 1:3.5 / 135
• Focal Length: 135mm
• Holder Filter: 49mm
• Aperture: f/3.5 to 22

Comparison with SMC Pentax-M 135mm f: 3.5 shows the evolution of optical Pentax during the 1970s: they both have a filter holder 49mm (while the immediate successor of the SMC-Takumar, SMC Pentax (not M) bayonet was in 52mm), but the Takumar is more end, the tube being adapted to mount M42, narrower, and it is against the longer, have not benefited from advances in optics of the Pentax-M.

In terms of image quality, I have not noticed any obvious difference, in terms of convenience, note that the Pentax-M 135mm features a retractable sunshade, in-lens ;: the advantage of having a little more leeway in terms of size, I suppose. The Takumar was sold with a metal hood, but I noticed it caused a significant vignetting of the images: it is too long, while the literature gives the Pentax as suitable for this purpose ... 'll Understand.

Note on the right picture, some features of the draft final optical Asahi Pentax screw: the small pin that protrudes into the frame. When the lens is mounted, the housing press stud is now open aperture, it's only permanently active when the cell to measure light that the diaphragm is released. On the side near the frame, button, zipper Auto / Man : it only serves to disengage the previous mechanism, where we mount the lens on a box of another brand which the spike clutch would end down permanently. Obviously, given in 2008, the reference Auto let wait much more ... The charm of old equipment!

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Super-Takumar 1:2 / 55

After the presentation of SP500 , its goals - the good old Takumar mount M42 ...

As was the practice before it starts to sell the zoom with a vengeance, the kit that we had suggested to my dear father consisted of housing, some eccessoires and three goals : a target of average focal length (55mm) wide angle (35mm) and telephoto (135mm).

• Type: manual lens fixed focus
• Manufacturer: Asahi Pentax
• Model: Super-Takumar 1:2 / 55
• Focal Length: 55mm
• filter holder: 49mm
• Diaphragm: f / 2 to 16, six blades

is the basic objective of all, curiously, while the other two are in the range SMC Takumar ( super multi coated ), this n is that the range Super-Takumar, including multi-layer coating is deemed to be a little worse ... But this is by far the one I used most often, and it has never particularly been a problem. In a pinch, by comparing all things being equal with the target MSC, there is slight color shifts ... And yet, it is not clear.

course, it would certainly be better with the SMC Takumar 1:1.4 / 55, which was absolutely unaffordable at the time but found for cheap now ... But it takes very good pictures with it.

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Asahi Pentax SP500

a break in the descriptions of my equipment to mention a few devices that I used or that I use although they are not mine, and in particular apparatus and step-father's paternal. Starting with a device which, if not the buyer, I was one of the first topics: Asahi Pentax for my dad.

• Type: SLR
• 35mm Manufacturer: Asahi Pentax
• Model: Spotmatic SP500
• Year of manufacture: 1980-1986
• Purchase date: early 1972 (not by me, I was a year!)
• Mounting: screw type M42
• Shutter: double curtain side-scrolling, 1 s to 1 / 500 th (actually the speed at 1 / 1000 th works although it is not marked on button speeds), Bulb

see this unit talk about the entries in photos and days ; the latest was illustrated by the same photo as this one.

In any case, a device particularly robust, as his successor the Pentax K1000 that I bought a copy a few days ago. The K1000 is identical to the Spotmatic (rather than the SP1000 SP500, but they are virtually identical) to the flash shoe near (the Spotmatic do not) - only changes the lens mount. The mount of M42 Spotmatic is much smaller than the K bayonet who succeeded him, so they appear larger than the K1000: more space free on the front ... But I have a case is designated for the Spotmatic (as marked Honeywell Pentax, the brand under which Asahi Optical Co. for providing its Spotmatic the Americas): it is exactly the right size for the K1000.

Asahi Pentax was the last major manufacturers to have kept the screw mount, until the early 1970s. They were not bad, these horses, but we must recognize that change is on target when mop requires a certain dexterity. Moreover, if a tip at the frame allowed the development diaphragm open, it had to close it when measurement of light, while with K-mount, everything is done and it is open aperture at the time of shooting it is adjusted. This allows you to work simultaneously on the development and measurement of light, then it is difficult to adjust the focus iris closed, especially if you are at f: 16 or beyond ... On the other hand, no need for button control depth of field (which is a clutch mechanism under open aperture), because the passage in the measurement mode automatically.

I took my first pictures with this camera in the 80s when I was 11 or 12 years (the advantage a rugged) I made a half-dozen rolls during my years of college and high school from 1982 to 1987 (with some moderation, therefore, the development costs being fabulous in terms of my money pocket) I borrowed again during my trip to South Africa in 1997. But it is always a pleasure to handle, although I now use my own equipment to take pictures. To recover the memory of those early gestures clicks.