Old and New -- Takumar 200mm F3.5 Preset and D600

Colorado CJ · Joined: 29 Jul 2012 Posts: 210 Location: Northern Colorado

I am a new Nikon shooter. I've been a Pentax guy and have shot many years exclusively with M42 lenses, namely Pentax Takumars. I have a large collection of pristine Takumar lenses that have been gathering dust since getting the D600, which I have not been happy with at all.

Well, today I shot my first test shots with my favorite lens, the Takumar 200mm F3.5 Preset lens. I am using my D600 with a modified Bower infinity adapter.

So far it looks VERY promising Very Happy

My dog Freya stood in for the test subject. BTW, 200mm on a full frame is A LOT different than 200mm on a crop sensor. I could almost use this as a portrait lens!

Freya-D600-Tak-200mm-F3.5-Preset-1 by Colorado CJ, on Flickr

Freya-D600-Tak-200mm-F3.5-2 by Colorado CJ, on Flickr

Freya-D600-Tak-200mm-F3.5-Preset-3 by Colorado CJ, on Flickr

So far I am very happy. I thought that I would no longer be able to use my favorite lenses, my Taks. Now I see light at the end of the tunnel. I'll have to do more testing, but so far the optical element in the adapter doesn't look like it affects image quality, or sharpness. I need to shoot a few landscapes to see how well the adapter works on the edges as well as distortions.

DigiChromeEd · Joined: 29 Dec 2009 Posts: 3462 Location: Northern Ireland

No. 1 is a cracking shot, I like it a lot. I've heard good things about this lens before. What aperture did you use?

Colorado CJ · Joined: 29 Jul 2012 Posts: 210 Location: Northern Colorado

Thanks. It is an excellent lens, my favorite 200mm lens. These were all shot wide open. It gets even sharper stopped down!

Minolfan · Joined: 30 Dec 2008 Posts: 3439 Location: Netherlands