Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/04/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I think a guy or gal can use any lens they feel like using if that's the lens they are in the mood to use that day. On 4/24/15 8:51 PM, "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote: > Hi Mark, > The lens you admired then is the lens I admire now. Produced around > 1971, someone took good care of it before I got my hands on it a few > years ago. I am having fun with it, and it, in turn, is giving me some > good images of my great-grandkids. What else can I ask for? > > Jim Nichols > Tullahoma, TN USA > > On 4/24/2015 7:41 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: >> " Super-Multi-Coated Takumar" may have been a mouthful but it was on the >> lips of all the photo people I knew who hung out at the school darkroom >> and >> all sat at the same table over French fries at the student lounge which >> was >> called the Red Carpet. >> This was the lens and camera, a Spotmatic that I used often as I'd check >> it >> out from the school on the weekend. It was so much lighter with far better >> ergonomics than my new Nikon f2 with 45mm GN lens which only focused to 3 >> feet. >> We all loved this lens and this camera at my school, Webster College in >> St. >> Louis in the early 70's it was the first to get checked out. A Canon FTb >> was >> the last as it always pulled the film out of the cassette on the last >> frame. >> It also came out in 1971 I see now. >> The Pentax Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 50/1.4 was the first lens anybody >> could get their hands on which had this advanced coating which everyone >> was >> very hyped on and was developed by Pentax in conjunction with Zeiss said >> to >> have as many has 6 micro thin coatings the same lens service the idea blew >> everybody away. Its all they talked about in any of the photo magazines.. >> Was said to ad noticeable contrast to your final image and it turned out >> to >> not be hype. And contrast by the way is a good thing. The Hasselblad >> lenses >> the next year had T* on them which indicated the same thing though >> Hasselblad claimed they'd been doing that previously a bit anyway for a >> year >> previously. Soon any lens which was not super multi coated or T starred >> was >> not worth a hill of beans in this crazy world. Other companies had other >> nomenclatures. >> >> On 4/23/15 6:13 PM, "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote: >> >>> George, >>> >>> I realize I am going against the grain here. I am resisting the >>> conventional "wisdom" that, if it is not made by Leica or Zeiss, etc, >>> then it has to be junk. The same holds for earlier models. I feel a >>> lens should be evaluated on what it can do for ME, not what the >>> "experts" claim. >>> >>> This is to show, especially to me, that my lens of choice, which happens >>> to be a Pentax Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 50/1.4 (7-element lens) from >>> around 1971, can do a reasonable job for me without having to spend a >>> small fortune for the latest and greatest lens, that is admittedly >>> somewhat better, but at what cost? >>> >>> Since I'm getting few comments, I suspect no one else cares. >>> >>> Thanks for commenting. >>> >>> Here is my favorite image made with this lens, several Christmases ago: >>> >> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Katie+Grace+_amp_+Kristin.jpg.ht >> m> >> l >>> Jim Nichols >>> Tullahoma, TN USA >>> >>> On 4/23/2015 4:30 PM, George Lottermoser wrote: >>>> On Apr 23, 2015, at 4:00 PM, Jim Nichols wrote: >>>> >>>>> This third image, shot from my neighbor's yard across the street, shows >>>>> that >>>>> things are greening up at my house, and the bushes are in real need of >>>>> trimming. As a general purpose lens, this lens provides plenty of >>>>> detail >>>>> without enhancement. This raw image was converted with no special >>>>> adjustment, and the image was resized. >>>>> >>>>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/House.jpg.html >>>>> >>>>> Comments and critiques welcomed. >>>> As you're presenting "lens tests" with the subject line "Lens Choices" >>>> It would be a bit more interesting if you mentioned what lens we're >>>> looking >>>> at a sample from. >>>> >>>> Not in the text and not in the EXIF - so what "Choices" are you making? >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> George Lottermoser >>>> >>>> http://www.imagist.com >>>> http://www.imagist.com/blog >>>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/