Love it, Bruce.

The Super Takumar was probably a 135mm f2.5.
I don't think a f2.8 was made in that focal length.
The f3.5 is much narrower (49mm filter size).

On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 6:43 PM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote:
> Trekked down to The Pilot Tavern in Toronto's trendy Yorkville area
> this aft to catch some of Canada's jazz A-listers slumming it. Barry
> Elmes, Artie Roth, Kelly Jefferson, and Lorne Lofsky putting their
> stamp on standards -- it gets no better than this.
>
> But what really took me by surprise was seeing a guy near me pull out
> a K-01 with what I'm pretty sure was a Super-Takumar 135/2.8 on it.
> I'd never even seen a K-01 in real life before let alone in a place
> usually disfigured by Canonistas and Nikonites. I had only just got
> over the shock of that when another guy arrived and produced a K-5
> with a DA*55/1.4 on it. WTF? Was I dreaming? The only other cameras in
> sight were the usual iPhone wavers.
>
> If I had brought my kit we might have attained some sort of strange
> critical mass and caused temporal havoc, so it's just as well I'd only
> come for the music.
>
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