A Takumar 100mm f2 on a Pentax S camera.

Many thanks to Solomon for lending me his Takumar 100mm f2. It's a very rare lens. Only a few hundred (at most) of these lenses were made, in the mid 1960s.

The Pentax S, also quite rare, is mine. It was only produced in small numbers between 1958 and 1959. The more common models were the AP (Pentax's first modern SLR camera) and the K, which followed the S.

Happy Midsummer! Shot with Super-Takumar 50mm f1.4

Photographed with an Auto-Takumar 55mm f1.8. The black (not zebra) version. One of the most fascinating bokeh lenses I've tried, with a great mix of smoothness and contrast/shapes in the blur.

Lovely Super-Takumar 50mm lens decorated fairy LED lights. Used a square aperture filter to give square shape to the bokeh. Notice how it looks warmer on the inside of the lens due to a yellow tint that the glass gets from years of decay of its radiactive thorium glass element.

Pentax K20D. Super-Takumar 50mm f/1.4. ISO 100.

Super-Takumar 55mm F2.0.

1959 Takumar 35mm f2.3 Lens

2023-07-12_06-45-44

Super Takumar Asahi Pentax f/4.0 macro.

Shot with Super-Multi-Coated Macro-Takumar 50mm f1.4. on Fuji X-T2. A 50 year old lens.

Tele-Takumar 200mm 1:5.6

Sony a7II with S.M.C. Takumar 24mm f3.5 lens

Super-Takumar, not SMC

Adding to my album of photos with a SMC Takumar 50mm f1.4.

SMC Takumar 1:3,5/28mm

Pentax6×7 smc takumar 2.4/105

at a farmers' market

Lens – SMC Takumar 1:1.4/50

Taken with a Takumar 17mm Fisheye lens.

Sony A7RII and SMC Takumar 24 mm f 3.5

With a Takumar 58mm f2.4.

With an Auto-Takumar 35mm f2.3.

Auto-Takumar 55mm f/2.2

Pentax SMC Super Takumar 55mm, edited in Aurora, custom filter Sun Forest

Super-Takumar 55mm F2.0. Taking advantage of the lens wide open and the bokeh it produces.

With the front element of the lens reversed.

I've just posted a YouTube review of this extra-ordinary lens if you're interested:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCaOWyZbEls

Adding to my album of photos with this rare, Sonnar design lens from the 1950s.

Super Takumar M42 55 1.8

sony a7r, Takumar 50mm macro, f4

PENTAX K10D & TAKUMAR 35MM F3.5

In a country garden... Zinnia & Marigold

Asahi-Kogaku Takumar 100mm f:3.5

Adapter M-37 to Pentax bayonet

Extension tube

Pentax K-1

Like the famous Meyer Trioplan, the Takumar 100mm f:3.5 has a triplet design. While it lends itself perfectly well to "straight photography", it is also capable of beautiful bubble bokeh, as you can see in my neighbouring images and albums.

SOOC

Snapped with a SMC Takumar 50/1.4 wide open.

I've recently posted a YouTube video about the similarities and differences between different Takumar 50/1.4 versions...here...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG_69I45H2k&t=11s

With a Takumar 58mm f2. A small crop.

Snapped with a Super-Multi-Coated Fish-eye-Takumar 17mm f4.

Dos Hermanos Islands in Maira-ira beach (aka Blue Lagoon)

Pagudpud, Ilocos Norte

Philippines

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Honeywell Pentax SP1000 (film SLR); SMC Takumar 55mm f2.0 with CPL

Fujicolor Proplus II ISO 100

November 8, 2008

Snapped with a Takumar 55mm f2.2, early preset version, with colour/contrast pp!

Bold

Sony A7RII and SMC Takumar 24 mm f 3.5

Shot with an SMC Takumar 35mm f/3.5 lens @f/5.6

Fuji x-T30, macro Takumar 50mm

Engie, 11 years old, belgian shepperd

With an Auto-Takumar 35mm f2.3.

Re-visiting my photo files from April 2015.

Here's my YouTube review of the lens:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCaOWyZbEls

Adding to my album of photos from the Takumar 58mm f2.4

With a Takumar 100mm f2

Super-Takumar 50mm 1.4 is one of those lenses that happily swirl in right conditions.

This is not ideal or the best example of Tak swirl but it gives a hint how it may look with some spring or summer subject.