Well I started it so I might as well contribute.
m42
Super Tak. 1.8, SMC Tak 1.8 x 2 (So they're 55's close enough I guess.)
SMC Tak 1.4
K mount
SMCP 1.8 (see note above.) SMCP-M 1.4 x 2
That makes 7 so I guess I'm a piker by comparison to some on this list.
I almost never use them since I find I have the 43mm ltd on my cameras a lot more. (I am looking forward to using the SMCP 1.8 55 as a portrait lens on the *ist-d, if I can ever afford one)
John Francis wrote:
Peter J. Alling mused:
All right how many 50's do we all have? JCO doesn't count since I think he has at least a hundred.
I've only got three; the A50/f1.7 I've had for ages (I believe I got it in 1983 when I bought my Super Program), the A50/f1.4 I picked up through rec.photo.marketplace before all the sales moved over to eBay, and the F50/f1.7 I was given by a neighbour together with his SF-1 and Takumar 28-80.
I should also have an ME Super & M50/1.4, but that mysteriously vanished.
The original reason I ended up with Pentax was because of the quality of the M42 50/f1.4; I bought one of those, and a Spotmatic II, with my first paycheck. I'm not sure which of the variants it was, but it was the version current in 1972 (probably a Super Multi Coated Takumar).
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