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Mysterious Takumar
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 2:08 pm    Post subject: Mysterious Takumar Reply with quote
I was watching the Bond flick "You Only Live Twice" and spotted a pair of Takumar lenses in the rear of the white Toyota 2000GT.
Here is a frame grab, the left lens is a Super-Takumar 50/1.4, the right one however eludes me.
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/622/21137150466_d6a089706d_o_d.jpg


PostPosted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 2:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 2:27 pm    Post subject: Re: Mysterious Takumar Reply with quote
Lightshow wrote:
I was watching the Bond flick "You Only Live Twice" and spotted a pair of Takumar lenses in the rear of the white Toyota 2000GT.
Here is a frame grab, the left lens is a Super-Takumar 50/1.4, the right one however eludes me.
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/622/21137150466_d6a089706d_o_d.jpg

A Quartz Takumar 85/3.5, methinks, an extremely rare lens.

EDIT: I was just thinking that it was an interesting prop. After all, if it really were a Quartz Takumar 85/3.5, it's a prop whose exoticism was probably wasted on 99+% of the viewers, but, for the cognoscenti, it'd be a clever prop, in that it might indicate that the camera body behind it could take IR and/or UV pix (while the ST 50/1.4 could handle all the regular shots) - another really neat Bond movie "gadget" then. Wink


PostPosted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 7:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I had totally forgotten about that lens, thanks.
Now I know why that scene jumped out at me as being familiar.
http://forum.mflenses.com/pentax-quartz-takumar-f3-5-85mm-in-use-t55928.html
That car and its gadgets were probably a requirement to showcase the state of the art products from Japan.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_2000GT


PostPosted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 10:33 pm    Post subject: Re: Mysterious Takumar Reply with quote
fwcetus wrote:

EDIT: I was just thinking that it was an interesting prop. After all, if it really were a Quartz Takumar 85/3.5, it's a prop whose exoticism was probably wasted on 99+% of the viewers, but, for the cognoscenti, it'd be a clever prop, in that it might indicate that the camera body behind it could take IR and/or UV pix (while the ST 50/1.4 could handle all the regular shots) - another really neat Bond movie "gadget" then. Wink


Which of course it can, or they'd never have bothered making the lens.
For IR it does need special film, even normal film will record UV.
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