My K10D + M42 lens

Here is my 2007 bought K10D with a 35mm f2 Super-Takumar I use with the Screw/Bayonet Adapter -- it is very sharp even at FULL APERTURE unlike a later version I had bought in the 1980's with the 49mm filter thread which was a real DOG of a lens and needed stopping down to f11 at least !
It is DUSTY --it is a WORKING CAMERA -- not one for a glass cabinet and I do not keep 'Scrubbing' at a lens every time there are a few specks on it!

Brilliant, what a testament to Pentax, what era was this lens Peter, my oldest is about 1980. And I like the unintentional "selfie". Lovely to see a set-up that is obviously used.


Regards John

Thanks John -- well I got it some years ago from a Gent here in Brentwood who had PENTAX as a Retirement present -- he let me have it with a 1960's SV and a 150mm f4 Super-Takumar and Extension tubes all for £ 25-00 !
I think it is a 1970's lens -- the 'second version' of the 35mm f2 Super-Takumar -- the 'third version' with the 49mm filter thread was the Dog of a Lens --it cost me £ 69-00 from David S. H. Leung Camera dealer of Goodmayes. My 'Selfie' is ME taking it in our Bathroom on the toilet seat on some old blue blind I use, with natural light and my daughter's Olympus mju 760 digital I won in a competition and David Bailey presented the prizes in a Gallery in London -- I gave camera to my daughter.