Gianfranco Irlanda wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > I feel a bit guilty for my absence from the list (or lurking, it > depends on the point of view...) of the recent times; I would > have liked to reply to many threads but in a way or another I > was always late so I decided to stay away a bit. > > I had (and still have) a lot of equipment tales to tell you but > this is just my 'daily news' one. > > A collector I know (who is, in the 'real life', a lawyer) told > me this morning that he had a manual focus Tokina lens (an > 80-200/2.8) in K mount for sale in a shop. I had a bit of spare > time so I went there. There was no 80-200/2.8 (already sold, I > guess) but on a shelf, among a lot of soligorokunaricoh chep > lenses, there was a huge cylindric case with 'Asahi Optical Co. > Japan' engraved on it. > Curious as ever, I asked if the case was empty or there was a > lens in it. The answer: "there's a 75-150"... > My memory of a Pentax 75-150 made me think of the small K mount > tele-zoom. Certainly the case was more than redundant. I asked > to have a look at it and... surprise! It was a screwmount lens. > A Takumar 75-150/4.5 (not sure of the exact name).
This _might_ be the Super Takumar-Zoom 1:4.5 / 70 ~ 150 mm, 224mm long. This was the first Asahi zoom lens, manuf. 1964-1971. 67mm filter. 14 elements in 11 groups. Wt. 2.34 lb. Data from "The Ultimate Asahi Pentax Screw Mount Guide ~ 1952 - 1977." keith whaley > Very long (I > had the impression it was longer than the SMC-A 70-210/4) and > quite heavy, although not very large. > I've never heard nor read of that lens (even JCO does not > mention it in his site). > I'm not a collector (although my amount of gear could give cause > for doubts...) and I thought that somebody in the list could be > interested in that lens. I recall a price of Euro 160 (US$172) > but I may be wrong (it could be Euro 180 - not sure). > > Ciao, > > Gianfranco > (hoping to be more present in the list from now on) > > PS: If anybody is interested in it, the shop's web address is > http://www.otticadecesare.it/ (the used stuff page is still > June 2002, but I guess they answer to the mail).
