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"we're all citizens of a different town now.
A town of people living in the sweet hereafter"
.........Russell Banks/Atom Egoyan "the Sweet Hereafter"
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Toshihiro Oshima and Velco Dojcinovski present CONVERSATIONS
- a three part series of photographic dialogue
Part 1: THE ABSINTHE DREAM (Melbourne, Australia)
McCulloch Gallery, 8 Rankins Lane Melbourne
Friday March 13th - Sunday March 24th
My very first prime lens was a Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 55mm f1.8, from 1972. I've very much enjoyed using it on film and digital cameras over the years.
In July 2013, I acquired my second version of this series - an Auto-Takumar 55mm f2.2. And since then I've been researching and collecting other versions - the latest being a Takuimar 55mm 2.2, dating to around 1958.
I've just posted a You Tube video guide to all the Takumar 55mm lenses - it's here if you're interested:
Adding to my album of photos taken with a Takumar 55mm f2.2, early preset version. Taken on a lovely bright day...but nearly directly into the sun.
I recently bought a Super-Takumar 50mm f/1.4 to use on my D90 with an infinity focus adapter. Results are interesting. Wide open, it is very soft and the focus doesn't seem to correlate with what I see through the view finder. I'm not sure if this is the lens or the adapter. Despite this, wide open it has unusual qualities which I like, things seem to glow and look almost more like a painting than a photo.
And, of course, the Bokeh...
I've just posted a review of this old fisheye lens. Including a comparison with modern digital lenses.
It's here if your interested. It would have been a lot longer if I'd kept pronouncing the lens's name in full!
By Michael Dumas - 4 images - Canon EOS 40D with Legacy Takumar 1:1.4 50mm Super-Multi-Coated Prime (M42 mount) & Fotodiox M42-EOS adapter & Polarizer - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives on Vancouver Island, where he works as a writer.
Photo of a detail in a print of an artwork by Michael Dumas
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.