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Asahi Super-Multi-Coated MACRO-Takumar 100mm f/4 on NIkon Z8 with Fotasy M42 adapter. This crop is about 20% of the original frame. (Ignore EXIF lens data – I had selected the wrong Non-CPU lens setting.) I've been a professional photographer since 1970 (retired now), and this 50+ year old lens is one of, if not THE sharpest lenses I've ever used.
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.
This bee is rather spoilt for choice!
Snapped with an Auto-Takumar 35mm f2.3. I've applied a detail extractor and added contrast, but this lens is already quite eccentric wide open.
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.
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.
With the front element of the lens reversed.
I've just posted a YouTube review of this extra-ordinary lens if you're interested:
From this angle, I feel these flowers look like they are behind bars, but of course in reality they are being protected from the street. Snapped with an Auto-Takumar 55mm f1.8, black version.
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...