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Takumar 35mm f/4 (Asahi's first wideangle)
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 5:03 pm    Post subject: Takumar 35mm f/4 (Asahi's first wideangle) Reply with quote
ome shots with Asahi's first wideangle for the 35mm format (and probably also the first 35mm SLR wideangle from Japan), which dates from 1958-1959. This is a full-manual lens, so not even pre-set. It's fairly rare because it was quickly replaced with the slightly faster (and reportedly better) 35mm f/3.5 Takumar.

The close-up shots are all wide open, the landscape shots are at f/8. Of course, there's zero CA in this not so fast lens.

Enjoy! !

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 5:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Nice really nice! Congrats for this rare bird!


PostPosted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 7:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'm jealous, this is the missing 35mm Takumar in my collection, I already miss two of them on ebay gone for approximatively 50€, when I didn't have enough money to put in...


PostPosted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 7:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Those are really fantastic shots- my faves are #3 and 4 - and it really makes my heart glad to see this old glass in use now, probably with better results than the designers ever dreamed of.

Truly, this is a perfect example of what our hobby... erm... obsession... is all about.


PostPosted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 8:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
My jealousy prevents me from truly enjoying these, Peter, but that last
shot is fantastic! Cool


PostPosted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 8:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Grand images! Simply fantastic colors, and the crispness is very apparent with that 135! And...WONDERFUL photography.


PostPosted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 9:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
The pictures look nice, seems like a nice lens. But are you sure about it being the first wideangle from Japan? I think that some of the pre-AI Nikkor wides such as the 2.8/35 are earlier.


PostPosted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 9:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Orio wrote:
The pictures look nice, seems like a nice lens. But are you sure about it being the first wideangle from Japan? I think that some of the pre-AI Nikkor wides such as the 2.8/35 are earlier.


But the Nikon F is from 1959 and the 35mm f/4 Takumar was first sold in 1958, so how can those Nikkor lenses be earlier?

Edit: Frank Mechelhoff states on his page about early Takumar lenses that the 35mm f/4 Takumar was even introduced in 1957. http://www.taunusreiter.de/Cameras/Pentax_Takumar_e.html


PostPosted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 4:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Great Peter


patrickh


PostPosted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 5:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
patrickh wrote:
Great Peter


patrickh


Patrick, if I might modify this:

Peter the Great

Wink Smile


PostPosted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 7:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Laughing Laughing

Thanks guys!
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