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SMC Takumar Macro 100mm f4 radioactive?
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 29, 2020 6:48 pm    Post subject: SMC Takumar Macro 100mm f4 radioactive? Reply with quote

I haven't been able to find out any information about this particular lens and I'm thinking about buying it. Does anyone own it and is able to measure it with a geiger?


PostPosted: Sun Nov 29, 2020 8:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not likely. Not necessary in a simple f4 lens.


PostPosted: Sun Nov 29, 2020 8:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Do you know that even you are radioactive (yes, because your body is for example full of carbon) ? If you do not stare open eye 24/24h on the lens, you will receive more radioactivity from the air than from the lens. BTW, 100/4 is not know as using tyhorium or other radioactive lenses.


PostPosted: Sun Nov 29, 2020 8:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've verified my S-M-C Macro Takumar 50/4 and the result was positive. However, the dose is truly miniscule compared to, for instance, S-M-C Takumar 50/1.4 or Zeiss Jena Pancolar 50/1.8.

No experience with the 100/4, but one would expect it to be more or less the same as the 50/4.


PostPosted: Sun Nov 29, 2020 9:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

They're Grrrrrrrrrrrrrreat!

Welcome Tonythetigger

50mm Macro-Takumars have 4/3 optics while 100mm Macro-Takumars have 5/3 optics. The 100mm is not on any list, even in the community-maintained database at https://camerapedia.fandom.com/wiki/Radioactive_lenses

Somebody guesses the reason for less radiation from 4/50mm Macro-Takumars than for 1.4/50mm Takumars (except 8-element) is use of lanthanum in glass formula. 1.4/50mm lenses used both lanthanum and thorium.


PostPosted: Mon Nov 30, 2020 5:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thank you!


PostPosted: Mon Nov 30, 2020 11:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

visualopsins wrote:

Somebody guesses the reason for less radiation from 4/50mm Macro-Takumars than for 1.4/50mm Takumars (except 8-element) is use of lanthanum in glass formula. 1.4/50mm lenses used both lanthanum and thorium.


Probably it's simply the difference in size. Rough estimation:

Lens diameter in a 1.4/50mm => about 35mm
Lens diameter in a 4/50mm => about 12mm

The lens volume - assuming a similar shape - would be about 25 times larger in a 1.4/50mm lens, compared to a 4/50mm lens.

Well, this is a really nothing but a rough estimation, but it explains why the 4/50mm has so much less radioactivity compared to the 1.4/50mm.

S


PostPosted: Mon Nov 30, 2020 11:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

stevemark wrote:
visualopsins wrote:

Somebody guesses the reason for less radiation from 4/50mm Macro-Takumars than for 1.4/50mm Takumars (except 8-element) is use of lanthanum in glass formula. 1.4/50mm lenses used both lanthanum and thorium.


Probably it's simply the difference in size. Rough estimation:

Lens diameter in a 1.4/50mm => about 35mm
Lens diameter in a 4/50mm => about 12mm

The lens volume - assuming a similar shape - would be about 25 times larger in a 1.4/50mm lens, compared to a 4/50mm lens.

Well, this is a really nothing but a rough estimation, but it explains why the 4/50mm has so much less radioactivity compared to the 1.4/50mm.

S


Thank you!