I have a lovely M42 135mm SMC Takumar lens: clean glass, hardly any wear, original front and rear lens caps and metal lens hood. I got it to use with my ES once I realised the SMC taks have a slightly different mount than the previous ones (I have a much older Tak 135mm).

The only problem is the iris is a bit slow to open and close. I guess it has some oil on the blades although I cannot see anything. Is there anything much I can do to improve the situation? Will opening and closing the iris repeatedly loosen it up?

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Thank you! I started it because there were one or two bits and pieces I wanted but had no idea how much they would go for, and it rather snow-balled from there. It is a bit biased towards certain things, e.g. lots of LX stuff, very little MZ series stuff.

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Much nicer to my eye. It is a lovely photo and those trees would appear to have many more possibilities.

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I love the trees but am not so keen on the heavy black border

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Nice photo Pete. Sadly, the K 135mm f/2.5 doesn't come up very often and the A f/2.8 isn't common either. The M series f3.5 is very common though. I wonder how the three compare.

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I'll see if mine has arrived when I get home tomorrow. Funny how we are all getting very different messages!

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I got the 12-24 just before Christmas and love it. It tends to be left on the camera rather than the kit lens, and more often than not when I change lenses it is to the 50-135mm (or was ). I'm not a great fan of fish-eyes (although Galoot may yet convert me) so this is currently my widest lens.

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Only one sale in my ebay database which was for a brand new boxed one, body only. Went for £69.

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Have fun, it is a nice outfit

Welcome Dave and have fun with your new camera.

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