Takumar f2.8/105mm ( preset ) candid portrait Vietnam

[kuuan]

some candids in north Vietnam taken with the small preset Takumar f2.8/105:
( on Pentax K-x, after resizing one click on 'sharpening' in PS )















best greetings from Hanoi,
Andreas

[Spotmatic]

Terrific results, bokeh and colors!

Now that you are in Vietnam you should as well visit the Pentax lens manufacturing plant in Hanoi, though I do not think they will give you a tour

The reason why I'm asking this is I really want to see how that plant looks. Maybe you can also find out how they assemble the FA Limiteds now

The address:

PENTAX VN Co., Ltd. / VIETNAM
Sai Dong B, Industrial Zone, Thach Ban Village, Gia Lam District, Hanoi, VIETNAM
tel: (84)-4-8750418

[kuuan]

Hi Peter,

oh, what a terrific idea! I knew they had a plant around here, but I had not made the effort to find out the address. Now that you gave it to me I should try to go there, better to call first to find out if they let me in? - However I think there is little chance they will..

Btw. unfortunately I still have had not much time to try out the Super Tak f.19/85 I got from you. I had made some stations travelling up north from Saigon which meant going light, now only carry 4 lenses, and the hard choice was between the S.T. 1.9/85 and the preset 2.8/105. I chose the 105 for being smaller, lighter, less obstrusive too..but I sure hope that I soon will be doing more with the S.T. 1.9/85!

best greetings,
Andreas

[Nesster]

Excellent portraits, I do love the 105's! And your photography of course

Ha! a tour of a Pentax lens factory! that would be cool.

[Spotmatic]

[poilu]

nice series Andreas, thanks for the visit
my favs #1#3

[kuuan]

[N]

Terrific results, I love the bokeh!

And everything is pretty sharp... Amazing

[CarbonR]

The first ones are my favs, very nice colors, I wouldn't expect that from the lens

[Attila]

Stunning portraits ! I like all of them, nice vibrant colors!

[ManualFocus-G]

Excellent candids! Nice one Andreas!

[patrickh]

Great portraits. Well done



patrickh

[kds315*]

WOW Andreas, wonderful captures!!

[LucisPictor]

[djmike]

This is great series. Bravo!! Takumar f2.8/105!!

[mo]

looks like you and the K-x are working well together.Do you still not like the colours as I think these are amazing.

[kuuan]

thank you everybody for your favourable and kind comments.

Some of you mentioned the pleasant bokeh. I actually decided to show these from because of a recent thread asking for a good 100mm with good bokeh with rather rounded circles even when stopped down. This preset 'only' has 8 blades but I think it does quite well in those respects. ( http://forum.mflenses.com/help-me-choose-a-good-100mm-t29669.html )

I am specially pleased that some of you mentioned liking the colors. I have been battling with liking the colors the K-x produces as compared to my earlier *istDs. However I had been using RAW on the *ist only, the colors of the jepgs were quite ugly, and, because I had read various reports that users could not come up with matching quality converting RAWs themselves and sometimes do not have access to a PC for days filling SD cards had been using mostly jpegs on the K-x. Trying to get better colors recently I again only use RAWs and now, Mo, I do like the colors much better!

to clarify about the subjects:
in the original post first pic was taken in Hanoi, all others are tribals in the far north bordering China, but the second pic which is of a local tourist there.

I guess the better one had been shown, but here a few more, again one click on 'sharpen' after resizing in PS, and again from north Vietnam, first one in Sapa:



these from Bac Ha, selling the local brew ( ogghh, really strong stuff! )







and a 'global' image from Hanoi:



best greetings,
Andreas

[pich900]

Simply BEAUTIFULL portrait, a great reportage from your country, perfectly catch with a lot of emotion and simplicity .......
This lens provides actually superb colours and a lovely bokeh, are the shots all wide open???

[kuuan]

[mo]

Good to hear kuuan as these skin tones are spot on.I hear most local brews are potent...

[kuuan]

booze of tribal Bac Ha is renowned to be very strong. We found out after my buddy got badly drunk the first night there

not candid, but being photos from Vietnam, I want to show you this one too:
ladies dressing up and modeling for their boyfriends to take their photo in public spaces, parks, is a big pasttime here
I was lucky to catch some too



cheers,
Andreas

[Orio]

very good series, I like the candids, especially the "global" one

[karabud]

Excellent photos!

[Transit]

Any luck finding the Pentax factory ?
Pete

[kuuan]

hey, welcome to the forum Transit!

now Pete that you ask me in your very first post here about my luck finding the factory:
I had located it on my city map, and it is not too far, had planned to go there tomorrow anyway, on my last day in Hanoi.
So far I had been too chicken to call to ask for an appointment, but your post made me call earlier today. I was put through to someone who spoke English very well, from his accent I would say he is Japanese.
He asked me how many people were in the tour, thus I had the impression that tours for groups are done and can be arranged!
But well, it is only me. He told he must talk with the management, I gave him my handphone number, hopes he will call me back tomorrow to have me come. But my impression is that he was - typically for Japanese - simply not saying 'no' straight out, but that he may have meant it
I sure hope that I am wrong and that I get a tour tomorrow!