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Couples no. 28. Budapest, October 1989. Pentax Super A, Pentax 35 mm, f4 1/15 Agfachrome 100, Nikon Coolscan V ED.
The Angsana tree branches blown by the storm in the late evening. A capture at the fields of Bayan Baru, Penang.
Image straight of the scanner.
|PENTAX Super A| Helios 44-M-5 58mm F2| M42| Fujifilm Provia 100F| X-Pro| Wide Open |
A close-up capture of the weed - the common "Mimosa Pudica" growing beside my Aloe Vera plant. Shot on my balcony. Using old M42 extension rings with the M42 Fujinon lens. T-Max100 gives fine results here.
PENTAX Super A, Fujinon 50mm F1.4, Panagor Extension rings 18mm +11mm, Kodak T-Max 100, Self-Development, Ilfotec LC29, 14min @1/29, Wide Open
Another shot of 4-6-2 No. 34028 'Eddystone' leaving Corfe Castle for Norden, this time taken with a Pentax Super A using an SMC Pentax-A 50mm f1.7 lens and Fuji Reala 100ASA film.
If you have a collection of 35mm SLR cameras from the 1970's and 80s with a variety of different mounts then buying a complete set of lenses for each lens mount rapidly becomes an expensive process even if each individual lens doesn't cost very much.
But there is an answer to this problem... Tamron Adaptall lenses.
Today Tamron make fixed mount lenses much like everyone else's lenses... but back in the 1970s and 80s they made a range of lenses with interchangeable mounts. And these mounts weren't like the dumb mounts you might be using to mound old lenses on your compact system camera.
These mounts integrate completely with the lens to create something that operates just like a fixed mount lens.
Tamron made 3 main ranges of interchangeable mounts:
1969-1973: Adapt-A-Matic
1973-1979: Adaptall
1979-2006: Adaptall 2
These mounts, particularly the amazing Adaptall 2 mounts made from 1979 onwards, were masterpieces of engineering that no other manufacture was ever able to compete with. Put the correct Adaptall 2 mount on your lenses and all the automatic exposure modes (including fully automatic and shutter speed priority modes) and metering facilities of your camera worked just as if you were using a fixed mount lens.
But as camera technology advanced and more and more communication between lens and camera was needed even Tamron's genius engineers met their limits. In particular autofocus SLR cameras defeated their engineering ingenuity, and Tamron never managed to create an interchangeable mount system for these cameras.
I've been meaning to build a small collection of Tamron Adaptall 2 lenses for my collection of 1970s and 80s SLRs for a while, and recently I've been making good on this ambition. Here you can see 5 Tamron lenses along with a Pentax Super A, and with the correct Pentax K-A mount all the Super A's many automatic modes work very nicely. The lenses in the picture are from left to right behind the camera:
Tamron Adaptall 2 24mm f/2.5
Tamron Adaptall 2 SP 90mm f/2.5 Macro
Tamron Adaptall 2 80-210mm f/3.8-4
Tamron Adaptall 2 70-150mm f/3.5
And mounted on the camera:
Tamron Adaptall 2 SP 28-80mm f/3.5-4.2
Ex GWR 78XX Manor class 4-6-0 locomotive No. 7820, 'Dinmore Manor' halting at Quorn & Woodhouse station on 1st February 2015. One of two visitors to the Great Central Railway at the Winter Steam Gala 2015.
Pentax Super A
Ilford XP2 Black & White film
Oulu, October 2017, Pentax Super A (Pentax Super Program), Pentax 35 mm, Ilford Fp4+, f5,6, 1/125, Xtol 1+1, 21 C., 8,5 minutes, Pacific Image Prime Film XE.
Mr.Ganeson winding up for the evening football game. A veteran from the 80's Penang State team squad, spend the evening to play football with the rest of the team...with his son in tow. Still fit and committed to the game....I wish I can still join them.
PENTAX SUPER A, Asahi Opt.Co Super Takumar 1:3.5/135mm, M42 Adaptor, K-Mount, Aperture priority, Fuji Superia 200, Expired, Wide Open
"It was one of those times you feel a sense of loss, even though you didn’t have something in the first place. I guess that’s what disappointment is - a sense of loss for something you never had."
by Deb Caletti
–Pentax Super A - Fujifilm
Formby Beach, Merseyside. Kodak Infrared film rated at 200ASA with 25a red filter, ID11 1+1 at 12 min
Oulu, June 2018, Pentax Super A, Pentax 135 mm, Ilford Fp4+, f8, 1/500, Kodak D-76, Pacific Image Prime Film XE.
PENTAX super A / smc PENTAX-A 1:2 / 50mm
Film: Kodak BW 400CN
Black and white scan from small format negative.
GWR Manor class 4-6-0 locomotive No. 7828 'Norton Manor' steaming in the yard at Minehead on 22nd March 2013. One of a pair of photographs taken with a Pentax Super A using an SMC Pentax-M 75-150mm f4 lens and Kodak Professional 400ASA black & white film.
Dignity and impudence!! (or "Who's the daddy?!")
(I was too lazy to set up the tripod for this shot, so it was shot at 1/6 sec hand held! Even shake reduction can't help at that shutter speed!! So don't bother with this photo at large size...)