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.

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

Adding to my album of photos with a Takumar 58mm f2.4.

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Trying out the Takumar 55mm f2.2, early preset version stopped down.

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.

impressions @ port of Hamburg

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.

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

Super-Takumar, not SMC

Super-Takumar 55mm F2.0.

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

at a farmers' market

Lens – SMC Takumar 1:1.4/50

Sony A7RII and SMC Takumar 24 mm f 3.5

With a Takumar 58mm f2.4.

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

Auto-Takumar 55mm f/2.2

SMC Takumar 1:3,5/28mm

Taken with a Takumar 17mm Fisheye lens.

Super Takumar M42 55 1.8

sony a7r, Takumar 50mm macro, f4

With an Auto-Takumar 35mm f2.3.

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

With an Asahi-Kogaku Takumar 58mm f2.4.

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

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

Takumar 55mm f1.7 a7ii

PENTAX K10D & TAKUMAR 35MM F3.5

Snapped with a Macro Takumar 50mm f4.

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.

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

At Chiswick House, West London.

Snapped with a Super-Multi-Coated Fish-eye-Takumar 17mm f4, and some vignette to accentuate the mist!

whispered to me by a stranger while i was taking this shot...

Takumar S-M-C 28mm 3.5

With a Takumar 58mm f2.4.

With a Takumar 100mm f2

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

Fuji x-T30, macro Takumar 50mm

Engie, 11 years old, belgian shepperd

One of my oldest and rarest M42 lenses - the Takumar 58mm f2, from 1957. The lens has a Sonnar design that was dropped for subsequent 55mm lenses.

My M42 lenses are about to actually get used! Bought a Pentax Spotmatic SPII camera, should be arriving soon..

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

With a Asahi-Kogaku Takumar 58mm f2.4.

Super Takumar 1,4/50mm

SMC Takumar 1.4/50mm

Takumar 50 1.4