SMC Takumars

Read the discussions on lenses;SMC Takumars against the M series etc. I bought a 135mm f 2.5 SMC Takumar from the Brentwood Gazette when their ES Pentax packed up for £10. It is really sharp,better than a 135mm Pentax-M f 3.5 I got with a ME Super. It also performs well with extension tubes for butterflies. Good job I got another Spotmatic screw camera with various other bits and pieces including a Weston V for £25 through the Brentwood Photographic Club!

Using the mount adapter K, you can use your screw thread lenses on the ME Super and have the advantages of the electronic body as well.

Hi Peter,
The 135/3.5M lens was realy a "budget" lens. When you consider the cost, the performance of it is amazing. If you need it. Pentax did make the 135/2.5 in bayonet mount. It is part of the original "K" series. It was based on the same design as the 6 element SMC Takumar. There were some other 135/2.5 Takumars before the 6 element version and these are not "quite" so good. Hopefully you Tak is the later one.

Regards
Kim

Thanks to John Riley and Kim C for replying;yes, I have the K mount adapter and have used all my screw lenses on my bayonet Pentax's. I sold off most of the screw bodies and went bayonet in the 1980s with an ME Super and MX from David Leung Goodmayes. I also got a 120mm Pentax M f 2.8 lens (gone with my ex-wife!)and kept the screw Electro-Spotmatic Japanese home market camera I bought in Japan in 1973,with the 24mm f 3.5 SMC and 105mm f 2.8 SMC Takumars for about £49 each including Customs Duty and Purchase Tax. The Electro-Spotmatic developed trouble using it on'Auto'as if I took several shots very quickly in sucession the CdS metering evidently had a 'memory'and over-exposed subsequent frames. I spoilt quite a few press pics that way! I sold it to a Pentax collector in Brentwood Photographic Club with original box for £85 ! A good price for a dodgy camera!

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You've got a bit of catching up to do, Peter, and we look forward to your sig in, say, five years time;

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G