I was going through my takumar screw-mount lenses trying to put rough dates on them, to figure out if any of them are as old as the yet-undated spotmatic I asked about. Some of them are, in fact, older than I am. Based on serial numbers, I also have an interesting case.
I have a 24/3.5 Super Takumar serial number 4420441. According to Gerjan van Oosten's authoritative book "By the time serial numbers had reached 4400000 virtually all lenses were of the SMC type". Yet, this lens has no light-meter cam or pin, and the part number on the Auto/Man lever is 43961 which is correct for the Super Takumar version. Clearly it is a Super Takumar. Might it be multi-coated anyway, as some of the last Super Takumars apparently were? I can't see anything obvious, except perhaps an ABSENCE of color on the glass when I hold it angles to the light, but then again I can't really see the difference between my SMC Takumar 28/3.5 and its Super Takumar brother that way either. DJE
