Super Takumar 50mm F1 4 8 Element

Super Takumar 50mm F1 4 8 Element. Asahi, Pentax Super Takumar 50mm f1.4 rare 8elements Catawiki It has garnered something of a legendary reputation online, and is known for its sharpness, bokeh, and propensity for flare Introduced along with the then-new Pentax Spotmatic, this lens has a small caveat attached to its use on early film cameras..

The first form retains the cosmetic style of previous lens types with an orange "lollipop" as the centre of the depth of field (DOF) gauge and a short orange bar ending next to the orange letter "R. The first version of the Super Takumar 50mm f/1.4 had 8 lens elements

Super Takumar 50mm F1.4 (8Element), Photography, Lens & Kits on Carousell

The first form retains the cosmetic style of previous lens types with an orange "lollipop" as the centre of the depth of field (DOF) gauge and a short orange bar ending next to the orange letter "R. The first version of the Super Takumar 50mm f/1.4 had 8 lens elements The earliest versions of the lens were made with an unusually high number of elements (8)…

Super Takumar 50mm F1.4 (8Element), Photography, Lens & Kits on Carousell. Engineering a 50/1.4 lens at that time meant that you're part of an exclusive few who could actually manufacture something so complicated for its time that many companies made it their mission to. The Super-Takumar 50mm f/1.4 was sold 1964 to 1966, it was hailed as Pentax's best lens and rightfully so because this lens performs rather well

"Hybrid", 3rd version of Super Takumar f1.4/50mm?!. I have quite an assortment of Takumars and have 2 of these 8-element 50mm Notice the cemented triplet with curved surfaces - very difficult and expensive to manufacture and it's said Asahi lost money on every copy sold; hence it didn't last very long