The Takumar Lenses

# 383 is brilliant metaphor...open doors...ears...age though not monotone.

Recall Mom saying, "...looks like a standing cab, with the doors open."

And Carter's (364) keeps drawing my attention...lovely picuture! Hope survives.
 
SLR, RF blurred view of tools? To me, Camera's are either fixed ("box") or rangefinder (RF) but I understand the situations. Just notions.
 
Mine is the f4.0, I like it, it does require (as you know) careful focusing. The one above that you just posted shows off the 105mm: at it's best with two nice looking kids. Someday we have to get together and complain about the problems of the Pentas 67 6x7 bodies.
 
charjohncarter said:
Mine is the f4.0, I like it, it does require (as you know) careful focusing. The one above that you just posted shows off the 105mm: at it's best with two nice looking kids. Someday we have to get together and complain about the problems of the Pentas 67 6x7 bodies.
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Thanks, John! I think with the weight of the rig and the sometimes very shallow depth of field, careful focusing is required with most 6x7 lenses. I shoot much more deliberately and judiciously with my 6x7, especially when you only have 10 shots per roll!

Pentax 6x7, S-M-C Takumar 6x7 105mm f/2.4, Ultrafine Xtreme 400, developed in LegacyPro L110 at 1:31 for 5.5 minutes.


2019.09.22 Roll #219-04027-Pano-positive.jpg by dourbalistar, on Flickr
 
Super-Takumar 1.9/85 on Lumix G7
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Quick question for my fellow members of the Takumar fan club. I have a seven-element 50mm f/1.4 with the built-in warming filter (aged, amber-colored radioactive lens elements). I use either Sunny 16 or a light meter app on my phone and was wondering if I am losing enough light due to the color of aged lens elements that I need to compensate in my exposures.

Thanks!
 
charjohncarter said:
I don't know the answer to that question, but I have two of these lenses and I have never found a need to apply a correction. Both of them have responded to the UV light treatment.
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I'm sure many of you have seen this, but there is one site (probably long gone) that suggested "repairing" the affected Takumar lenses with a sledge hammer. :)
 
I have one of the affected lenses, as well. I have put it under different lamps, left it in the window, left it outside in sunlight, and it's still yellow! (Possibly less than it was, but it's hard to tell.)


To respond to AAlfano's question about exposure compensation, I'm sure it would be needed. A simple 81B warming filter requires 1/3 stop compensation and there is definitely more light loss than this in my 50mm 1.4.


- Murray
 
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