takumars are single coated manual aperture lenses for the most part. Super takumars were single coated with automatic apertures. the final smc takumars were smc coated. Those are the most desireable especially on lenses with a lot of elements like zooms or wide angles.
J.C. O'Connell (mailto:[email protected]) Join the CD PLAYER & DISC Discussions : http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cdplayers/ http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/cdsound/ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of CheekyGeek Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 12:39 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Takumar vs Super Takumar ?? Frankly, I would not worry much about the slight differences between them. They are all superb fun. If you find one reasonably priced BUY IT. Take for example the 50mm f1.4. I learned on this list just a few days ago that there are two versions of the Super Takumar, an earlier 8 element design and a later 7. The 7 element design continued up to the last SMC Takumar and only the coatings changed. I suppose the conventional wisdom would be that the coatings only got better over time, but some people actually desire the earliest model for portraiture BECAUSE it is a bit softer wide open. There is nothing like the feeling of the old Taks (any of them) and I especially appreciate that they are designed to NOT ROLL OFF your table top. :) Darren Addy Kearney, NE -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
