Takumar 200mm f5.6 & SMC Takumar 135mm f3.5

I've just managed to acquire both of the above lenses for a very reasonable price. Still waiting for them to arrive and hoping they are 'as described', but in the meantime I would be interested to hear views on the IQ of these lenses. I'm not concerned about their 'slowness' as I have them earmarked for specific duties where this will not be an issue.

Thanks in advance for your comments.

Regards
David

I've got the S-M-C Takumar 135/3.5. Workhorse telephoto of the 1970s, I don't have any other M42 telephoto lenses to compare it to but it handles sweetly and seems sharp enough.

I have never got on with M42 lenses on my K-m, so the three I own are used on a Spotmatic or SV when I feel the urge.

Anyone out there got any shots they can post that were taken with the pre-set Tele-Takumar 200mm f5.6?

Just bought one, not go it yet. Seems to be quite scarce and I have not seen many images taken with this lens.

Regards
David

Need daylight...can you wait ?
Try it in Av with that lovely silky stop down before shooting

Pete

Here it is wide open. It has a bucket load of iris blades so stopped down bokeh is very smooth too. The focus confirm hexagon seems to be quite accurate. The main shortcoming is the long closest focus distance. I have a permanent hard hood on it.

1/3200 f5.6 iso 500 K-5 Av with no compensation




and the crop thereof

Can I ask what a "preset" lens is?

The best way I can explain it there are two rings on the lens, one for setting the aperture, the other to open it up to focus then it is closed for the shot.

Quote from Pentaxforums.com.


There should be two aperture rings. One is used to "preset" the aperture, the other one is used to actually stop the lens down to that aperture.
In use, you would set the aperture ring to the shooting aperture (lets say f, which, with old viewfinders, could make for a very dim focusing screen.
So, you would open the lens up with the second ring, focus and then turn it until it stops, which would put you at the preset aperture for shooting.
It was a way of allowing for fast aperture setting without having to count clicks.

Which confirms what montyaus said. BTW where the smiley face is should be f8

Yes they perform best at about f8.

Goes for most lenses in my experience, the main difference is that with better lenses you can use larger apertures before the softness gets annoying.

In my limited experience I have found my better lenses are very Sharp at f4,the 150-500 in good light works very well wide open at f6.3.