Super Takumar 55mm f/2 - autumn colours

PhantomLord · Joined: 08 Apr 2013 Posts: 472 Location: Szczecin, Poland

Hi,

A few feeks ago I bought Super Takumar 55mm f/2 and it is my first Takumar lens (not last, that's for sure). It was bought cheaply out of curiosity about this Takumar thing. Now I know why Takumars has such great opinions, it renders beautifully, it's small, focus is incredibly smooth and it gives so much pleasure while using.

I didn't have much time to use it properly, however I notice that some autumn has come so I decided to give Takumar a try. All photos shot in the late afternoon, so ISO varies from 100 to 800 as it was quite a grey and windy day. Because of that it is quite hard to judge this lens's sharpness as every single leave was shaking and higher ISO did it's damage to the sharpness as well

All photos are JPGs straight out from Canon EOS 600d (in camera picture style set to Landscape). I decided not to put post processed RAWs in here, because in my opinion untouched JPGs are better to show lens's performance at a start.

Whole Flickr Super Takumar Gallery: http://flic.kr/s/aHsjKD7Zhw

1. ISO 100, f/2

2. ISO 100, f/2

3. ISO 200, f/2

4. ISO 200, f/2

5. ISO 800, f/5.6

6. ISO 400, f/2.8

7. ISO 800, f/2 or f/2.8

8. ISO 800, f/2 or f/2.8 (I could not decide if I prefer Portrait or Landscape layout Wink

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9. ISO 400, f/2.8

10. ISO 200, f/2.8 or f/4

Nordentro · Expire: 2015-01-29

Lovely, I agree, Takumars are great Wink

Lloydy · Expire: 2022-01-01

I was lucky enough to be in Nova Scotia, Canada, for the last 2 weeks when the fall was probably at its best. And which lenses did I choose to use? Takumars.
I like your pictures a lot, they are lovely compositions and show off the Takumar beautifully.

bernhardas · Expire: 2017-05-23

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caspert79 · Joined: 31 Oct 2010 Posts: 3221 Location: The Netherlands

Great value for money these Takumar lenses!