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TEST Takumar 58/2 v Super Tak 50/1.4 v M50/1.4 v FA43/1.9
Hi Paul, I've found all Sonnars have a quite unique look and the Tak 58 certainly shares it - there's no doubting its heritage or design! Of course that look doesn't suit everybody; it's not as ultimately sharp as a double-gauss or even a Tessar, nor does stopping down yield any significant impro...
Posted by hefty1 on 17/08/2010 - 10:24
My First SLR
Very nostalgic. My first SLR was a Practika Super TL - I could not afford a Pentax but of course the screw mount was compatible. I eventually found my way to Pentax with my first DSLR, a ist DL2, which I was pleased to find that I could use my old Meyer Optik prime lenses with an adapter. I love ...
Posted by helios on 29/06/2010 - 14:08
My First SLR
My first SLR, was a Program A, purchased from Comet Speke Liverpool,(I was working up there). I next tried to get a second hand Super A, but had to settle for a P30. Then a Super A came along and so I swapped it for the P30 plus a couple of quid. The Super A turned out to have cracked housing...
Posted by Roscoe on 07/02/2011 - 13:16
My First SLR
Nice share Forgive me if I misjudge, but dichthuat looks like he is advertising a translation service through his link. Positive contributions welcome here but not back door advertising thank you.
Posted by RobL on 22/12/2016 - 09:12
My First SLR
My first was an Exa IIb - one of those on which the entire back came off to change films. It came with a 50mm Meyer Optik Domiplan and a Zeiss 100mm. Both lenses saw long service on its successor, an Exakta RTL1000 until some slob of a burglar stole the whole lot. That caused the eventual purchase o...
Posted by davidwozhere on 23/12/2016 - 19:17
My First SLR
First camera as a lad was an Agfa Silette rangefinder which I used to it's limits, including making a rig so it took 3D pictures. Needed to use a handheld light meter which was great training for exposure basics. First SLR wasn't mine, but a Voightlander Bessamatic my Dad very trustingly lent me whi...
Posted by RobL on 25/01/2017 - 23:27
My First SLR
Can I claim to be the one with the longest continuous ownership of a Pentax slr on this list? I had wanted a single lens reflex back in the early 1960s (remember the Wrayflex?) but nothing was just right. I then had a year in the USA on a science research grant, 1964-65, when Pentax released the ...
Posted by OldTaffy on 28/01/2017 - 16:04
My First SLR
I remember as a student gazing longingly at the Nikon cameras in shop windows, way beyond my limited budget. I suppose I kept that aspiration at the back of my mind and when I decided to get a DSLR I went into LCE with high hopes - I could finally afford one! What a disappointment, the lower priced ...
Posted by RobL on 28/01/2017 - 17:24
My First SLR
I was stubbornly pentax. i decided to buy an slr and i searched photo.net for information in 1998. there i decided to go manual lenses, primes, k-mount and a tripod. i went to a nearby city for shopping. after looking around i went to a big photo shop where the owner insisted me taking an autofocus ...
Posted by gr76 on 08/03/2017 - 05:37
Electro Spotmatic.
Here is the camera and lens, spotted by jonSchick in central London, last week. Beautiful, but not working properly. Our favourite Pentax repair specialist, tells me that it is no longer repairable... Not by him, anyway!. I bought it for the lens, which will clean up nicely. The body goes on ebay t...
Posted by mowog on 04/07/2010 - 16:06
K Series Family Portrait.
I found this site looking for a 3rd K2DMD body. I guess they are rare..I would really like to know the serial number range (1st and last) and how many were really manufactured.. I loved them! Then I started doing commercial work and had to change to Nikon. I put them away in the closet. 1970's ca...
Posted by Rico on 10/01/2014 - 04:35
K Series Family Portrait.
I think I told the story how I got a FREE KX body from a Camera Club member -- he was selling all his 'Film Gear' to Ffordes in Scotland -- 6x7 stuff, OM stuff etc etc and they sent back his KX as ' unsaleable, not working' so he gave it to me and after having a look and attaching a lens I found ...
Posted by Peter Elgar on 05/03/2015 - 16:42
A peculiar pair.
Interesting, but what do you do with your M42 lenses?..... Not a K adapter on a Spotmatic :lol: Was the "depth of field preview button" the biggest marketing con of all time, by all camera manufacturers. Most people can't even see where the image is in focus without katzeyes, split-image screens ...
Posted by Algernon on 03/08/2010 - 09:40
A peculiar pair.
Thanks for the offer, but those are the later sort - I think the top one is for an M-series and the lower one for something like a Super A. The one that came with my KX is wonderfully flexible, unlike the M-series type. I'm not sure whether this is due to the weave/fabric or the fact that it's o...
Posted by Dangermouse on 03/08/2010 - 20:57
Vintage M42 Gear
Front row second in is a Pentax K, third in is a black SV, back row are Heiland Pentax H1 and H2 I think. The Ashaiflex I think is a IIb I stand to be corrected on all these. K.
Posted by womble on 05/08/2010 - 19:32
Vintage M42 Gear
Front row second in is a Pentax K, third in is a black SV, back row are Heiland Pentax H1 and H2 I think. The Ashaiflex I think is a IIb I stand to be corrected on all these. K. That's close. The one is an H3 rather than an H1. Everything else is spot on. The IIb is the 'late' version obvi...
Posted by Blue on 05/08/2010 - 23:18
Vintage M42 Gear
Yep, I have an SMC Tak 135mm lens which has the coupling to allow open aperture metering. Problem is, the only "normal" M42 lens I have is the Super Tak 35mm which doesn't have the coupling. How do I use stop-down metering with the ES II? I am guessing it goes like this: Focus Set aperture to Ma...
Posted by Dangermouse on 07/08/2010 - 00:12
My Star Collection
the one at the back is part of the Chinese Space Agency's manned mission to Uranus
Posted by Smeggypants on 19/08/2011 - 02:46
My Star Collection
the one at the back is part of the Chinese Space Agency's manned mission to Uranus I thought they were small, long thin lenses? That's it, I'm cancelling my colonoscopy with Dr. Chow.... Regards
Posted by sam-joseph on 19/08/2011 - 03:06
ME-F
I don't know anything about this type of analogue(?) camera, but I do like the look of it and your picture! When was this camera in use? The ME F was the autofocus version of the ME Super. It was made between 1981 and 1988 and came in silver and black versions. The black version is much rarer than...
Posted by womble on 21/09/2010 - 23:25
