Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/04/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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.htm> > 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 > > >