Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2021/05/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Fri, 14 May 2021 Don Dory <don.dory at gmail.com>wrote: >Lovely composition. Is your Takumar one of the radioactive versions? ========================================================================================================== Thanks, and I don't know. I do know it's the 8 element version according to the details I found on this website: <https://takumarguide.weebly.com/1--14--50-358-8-element.html> >From the serial number, I gather mine is the fourteenth in from the start of batch eight. My lens came on an all-black Spotmatic that I bought third-hand from a friend of mine in 1968. < http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Gear/Spotmatic_AMR.jpg.html > I eventually had three Spotmatics, and to tell which camera took which picture, I filed small triangular notches in the film aperture - one for the black camera, two for one of the silver ones, and three for the last silver body. -- Alan Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services (Retired) UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978 UPAA Master of the Profession 2014 amagayneroshak at gmail.com <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/> "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt