| Author: | | New Member Registered: December, 2020 Location: Seattle, Minneapolis, Chicago Posts: 2 ii users found this helpful  | | Lens Review Date: March 15, 2021 | I can recommend this lens: Yes | Price: N/A | Rating:nine |
| Pros: | Build quality, character, rendering, bokeh, sharpness stopped down | | Cons: | Not the sharpest wide open | | Sharpness: 9 Aberrations: 9 Bokeh: nine Handling: 10 Value: ten Photographic camera Used: K-1 | |
Then, I think at that place's plenty reviews for this lens, and more enough data about it out in that location. The prices have come up in recent years, but I'd still say this is one of the best value vintage lenses for a beginner. This lens volition teach you a lot, and you volition grow with information technology, but never OUTgrow information technology. I'thousand a bit biased because I never did care for autofocus, or maybe I just can't beget adequate autofocus? Either way, these lenses are an absolute must. There's enough of them to go effectually, so everyone should take one! Here's a few of my photos through this lens. https://www.flickr.com/photos/lordawesome/albums/72157716958274137 | | | | | | New Fellow member Registered: November, 2020 Posts: 5 1 user found this helpful | | Lens Review Date: December eighteen, 2020 | I tin can recommend this lens: Yes | Price: $118.00 | Rating:9 |
| Pros: | Sturdy, well built and affordable | | Cons: | Weird aberrations, lens yellowing | | Sharpness: ix Aberrations: half-dozen Bokeh: 6 Handling: ten Value: 9 Photographic camera Used: Spotmatic SPII & Adapted Catechism Rebel T6 | |
Rather hard to accomplish practiced focus at f/1.iv even with my Spotmatic compared to my other M42 mountain lenses.
Mine was rather yellowed, but using the N�VLINGE LED work lamp from IKEA cleared it up in a matter of days.
Considering of the pocket-sized count of aperture blades, it leads to weird aberrations and strange, unrefined bokeh.
That existence said, it'southward my favorite 50mm lens I've ever owned and is just so much to handle, and expect at - it'south gorgeous. | | | | New Member Registered: Nov, 2020 Location: Bangalore, India Posts: two ii userdue south found this helpful | | Lens Review Date: November 27, 2020 | I tin can recommend this lens: Yes | Price: $90.00 | Rating:10 |
| Pros: | Bokeh, Color rendition, Handling, Reputation and availability | | Cons: | None | | Sharpness: 9 Aberrations: 8 Bokeh: x Handling: 10 Value: 10 Camera Used: Fuji XE-three | |
This is an incredible lens, far superior than what I had expected for a lens that is l years old and what I paid. Mine is model ii which is probably least sought after simply I am still blown abroad. Sharpness is decent to excellent, color rendition and bokeh is cute and if you compose carefully, you go most round highlights. I am seriously considering purchasing the viii chemical element version and the later Super Multicoated versions. I am surprised non many people know about it, since well-nigh people wait for unique look which this lens hands delivers. Besides, it is widely available and not hard to get a good copy. I have seen some most new copies on Ebay (especially sellers in Japan) for bargain toll. Congenital like a tank, it would outlast whatever mod lens. In fact modern lenses seem like toys in comparison. I retrieve fifty-fifty if you lot own a fast prime number, you should try this and I am certain you lot won't exist disappointed.  I love it so much that I fabricated a curt video showing some of the pictures taken with information technology. All those pictures were shot nigh back to back within 30-45 minutes. Bank check out some pictures I recently shot with this lens! Cheers. https://youtu.exist/uj2ppRzxQbo  | | | | New Fellow member Registered: March, 2013 Posts: 5 | | Lens Review Date: November ane, 2020 | I can recommend this lens: Yes | Cost: N/A | Rating:ten |
| Pros: | inexpensive | | Cons: | none | | Sharpness: ten Aberrations: ix Bokeh: 10 Treatment: 9 Value: ten Photographic camera Used: kr | |
awesome lense | | | | | | New Member Registered: March, 2019 Posts: two 1 user constitute this helpful | | Lens Review Date: February 11, 2020 | I can recommend this lens: Yes | Price: $100.00 | Rating:nine |
| Pros: | build quality, smooth focus, f1.four, great indoors in low light | | Cons: | hit and miss IQ | | Sharpness: eight Aberrations: ix Bokeh: ix Handling: ix Value: 9 Camera Used: Sony a6000 | |
I bought this lens because of its reputation and I wanted to endeavor for myself.
My lens does have a real yellowing to the elements which makes black and white photos looks fantastic, as well equally indoor shots. When pockets of light are present in patches the photos are beautiful.
Just, in my opinion the yellowing doesn't make colour photos pleasing at all. Grass especially looks to bright for my liking. In decision this is a lens that is going to take some working out to know when information technology will piece of work and when to leave information technology at abode.
As with all taks, the build quality is superb, as is the smoothness of the focus ring. It is a joy to behold. | | | | New Member Registered: July, 2016 Location: New York, NY. Posts: 1 2 usersouth found this helpful | | Lens Review Date: February 3, 2020 | I can recommend this lens: Yes | Cost: North/A | Rating:9 |
| Pros: | Sharpness, colour rendering, ease to handle, congenital quality. | | Cons: | N/A | | Sharpness: 10 Aberrations: 9 Bokeh: 10 Handling: nine Value: 9 Camera Used: Sony a7II | |
I own this lens for over a decade and take used information technology with several camera systems. Currently enjoying it Sony cameras.
The built construction and pattern of the lens is superb. Wide open you lot get a dreamy even so precipitous prototype. Contrast and color rendering and both keen. Bokeh can't exist judge in a negative way.
One of my favorite 50'due south and one of my height 10 lenses. Only edit in the picture below was to add a "Westward" on the cat's tag to hide the contact info. 
Watson by Gimo Nasiff, on Flickr | | | | New Member Registered: Apr, 2015 Posts: 11 | | Lens Review Appointment: Jan 31, 2020 | I tin can recommend this lens: No | Price: $165.00 | Rating:five |
| Pros: | Sharp above f/2. Robust construction; M42 | | Cons: | Soft and hazy wide open | | Sharpness: 4 Aberrations: 3 Bokeh: 7 Handling: 10 Value: 6 Camera Used: K-S2; NX500 | |
I have the 2nd version (1965-71): 7 element.
This lens is acceptably sharp at f/2 (white dot). At f/one.iv it is soft and hazy on 100% view. For portraits, that might be okay for minor epitome sizes. CA is a serious problem. Green on one end to magenta on the other. | | | | New Member Registered: October, 2019 Posts: 1 ii userdue south establish this helpful | | Lens Review Appointment: October 23, 2019 | I can recommend this lens: Yes | Cost: $lxxx.00 | Rating:10 |
| Pros: | Price,IQ, Build, Sharpness, fast and smooth focus throw. | | Cons: | Discoloring, Radioactive, | | Sharpness: 9 Aberrations: 8 Bokeh: nine Treatment: 10 Value: 10 Photographic camera Used: canon 6d | |
I am not sure if this is a review or a dear letter of the alphabet. I bought this lens years ago to keep my Canon Rebel, namely for the sake of video. I always thought that one solar day I would upgrade to expensive Canon L glass. My commencement and simply upgrade was to a full frame Canon 6d, that I replaced the focusing screen in. Then I realised what this lens was actually about. Instead of buying something new I just shot on this lens on my canon 6d for the next 6-7 years. I did option up a takumar 135mm iii.five and those two became my bag for years. I would add an odd lens here or at that place, but those I ever traded in and tried new things. This and the 135 are such consistent performers and they are both 49mm thread so the thickness is the same. This helps muscle memory and is at present the basis for how I selection out a lens. I only shoot on 49mm thread lenses 99% of the time.
This lens has some serious sample, I have tried five versions(including the 8 chemical element) of this lens, I've endemic iv and also own and use the Pentax-m 50mm 1.4. The 2 7 chemical element super takumars seemed to be the sharpest and the most discolored. I really did not intendance for the 8 chemical element I tried, It was not every bit sharp every bit the others and non dissimilar plenty to good enough to justify the collector's particular inflated price it has. It definitely is not "Better" and to be honest if you are looking for a pentax/takumar 50mm simply don't get a k mount 50 f2 and you will have a seriously great lens. The S-G-C(Spelt out version) was sharp enough wide open to be usable, the SMC(Rubber band) takumar I had was as well soft broad open up, I always shoot @f2 and by and then the only difference in any vii element version later that is gone. Basically nigh all samly variation will be found wide open. Pentax-m 50 one.4 looks and feels identical, just not discolored. Where this lens really shines(and this includes basically every version, 8 element, smc pentax k mount, pentax-m, and pentax-a) is information technology's focus throw length and dampening combined with its weight requite possibility one of the best feeling lenses that can be had in this toll range. If you tin await and non buy the first 1 y'all see on ebay you can find them for $50, sometimes less. Ebay tend to have them for around 80 on average I would say. I also encounter them on facebook marketplace all of the fourth dimension. There you can find them for super inexpensive. https://www.flickr.com/photos/101506171@N05/22312368432/in/dateposted-public/ https://world wide web.flickr.com/photos/101506171@N05/22312368432/in/dateposted-public/ https://sbpphoto.smugmug.com/Portraits/i-F6Ww6cM/A https://sbpphoto.smugmug.com/Music/i-TFZcdpT/A | | | | New Member Registered: June, 2018 Posts: xvi | | Lens Review Date: September 22, 2019 | I can recommend this lens: Yes | Price: $100.00 | Rating:9 |
| Pros: | Sharp focus, bokeh, focus experience, build | | Cons: | Can't recall of whatever | | Sharpness: ix Bokeh: 9 Treatment: 10 Value: 10 Camera Used: Pentax K5 | |
Very prissy lens. It's the best vintage lens I have (hands). Great bokeh even when using the K5'southward crop camera sensor. Possibly if had to say annihilation negative, it might be the color is maybe not quite as warm as some of my other lenses. Love to use this one though! I accept the non-radioactive version. Anyway, a moving picture's worth much more than my few words, so here's a test shot taken recently:   I've ordered some old M42 macro tubes to come across what more the lens tin do ... | | | | Senior Member Registered: February, 2014 Posts: 133 | | Lens Review Date: August 11, 2019 | I can recommend this lens: Yes | Price: $85.00 | Rating:nine |
| Pros: | Excellent sharpness | | Cons: | cost! | | Sharpness: nine Aberrations: 8 Bokeh: 8 Handling: 9 Value: 7 Camera Used: Pentax K-S1 | |
Excellent lens, and despite some comments to the contrary, they can be with yellowed inner elements. Not a clue if they are radioactive or not, but leaving in bright sunlight can help, although I have a UV light which speeds up the reversal of the yellowing. Just don't go hung upward on information technology-even with the yellowing, colour rendition is good, and can also exist altered in post-processing. Compared with many other manufacturers information technology is a compact lens, as are most of the prime Taks. I still utilise i on my Pentax DSLR with an adapter. Is it worth the extra cost over the f1.eight? Only you can answer. Back in the solar day when that extra bit of effulgence was a bonus on the Spotmatic viewing screen I would take said aye. Now, I'm not then certain, specially with amazing asa speeds I would have killed for when I first started using color back in the 1960'south. 25 asa anyone? | | | | New Member Registered: June, 2019 Posts: 1 | | | | New Member Registered: February, 2019 Posts: 12 1 user found this helpful | | Lens Review Engagement: March 14, 2019 | I can recommend this lens: Yes | Price: N/A | Rating:eight |
| Pros: | Pocket-size and light | | Cons: | It's cultish following | | Sharpness: 8 Aberrations: 8 Bokeh: eight Handling: eight Value: 1 Camera Used: ME Super K2 | |
A very proficient lens that is very fine in terms of film quality from f4 to f11 in most picture-taking contexts. Existence a f1.4 lens, it has grown a cult following and the interactions of online profit-orientation markets and cultish online banter about "tack precipitous Taks" mutually feed each other with bully enthusiasm. I'thousand never convinced that f1.four versions of the Takumar 55mm are better than f1.8 or f2 lenses. And when a lens costs so much more, things should be so much better. In old secondhand designs "wide open" does not e'er give sharper images; peculiarly when an onetime lens is probable to have filthy glass edging inside and some spots of fungus around the edges through the long life information technology's had. What I am convinced well-nigh is that most folks with the spare cash to buy the often incredibly over-inflated secondhand charge for the f1.4 version are going to be buying a lens that has been serviced properly because the seller knows they can rip folks off for an extra $100-$200 for a wipe with a lens cloth in comparison to selling a F1.8 version. A properly cleaned and properly looked after f1.8 lens is just as fine nine times out of x. The crazy-expensive SMC later versions with M42 mounts have slightly better coatings, only this is but noticeable if you lot tend to take pictures into - or across - direct sunlight without a lens hood. The before lens coatings are still very proficient and will suit most people perfectly. For the ridiculous actress costs often charged for "SMC" blueish/green coatings you will probably never notice whatsoever real difference to "Super Takumar" before lenses with yellow/golden coatings. By the mode, there are movies and reviews online most treating "yellowed" Takumar glass with UV light. Don't have whatever discover as that xanthous/gold tint is the coating on "Super Takumar" lenses. So, a very good lens - but I challenge you to really compare a f1.4 with a f1.8 and a f2 by their photos and y'all'll be pushed to tell them apart without knowing which is which. | | | | Site Supporter Registered: March, 2008 Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Posts: 401 | | Lens Review Date: December 19, 2018 | I tin can recommend this lens: Yes | Price: Northward/A | Rating:ten |
| Pros: | All as posted previously | | Cons: | | | Sharpness: ten Aberrations: nine Treatment: 10 Value: 10 Camera Used: K1 Marker Two | |
Super-Multi-Coated Takumar version - vii elements.
All has been said and more on this (those versions) lens in all past reviews. I just want to add that the centre sharpness is exceptional at all apertures, even at f16.0. Posted are the photos at ISO 100, f5.6, f8.0, f11.0, f16.0 and with no corrections - straight out of the box.
I used a test chart, on a 24" 10 36" pegboard, which seems to exist fairly accurate with my new K1 mark II and noticed that the center sharpness may be shown as being as low as iii.half dozen ln/mm (line pairs per mm). Tweaking the focus in live view in "focus peaking" shows results downward to iv.0 (?) lp/mm but I must say 3.6 as seen below is still pretty good being a higher standard for high quality lenses.
Other findings are lower edge sharpness, low edge distortion, minimal CA, depression contrast, no light fall-off. I fully intend to keep on using this lens with my K1. At f5.half dozen https://www.dropbox.com/s/eqtcqwdk85q2qwv/_IMG0261.jpg?dl=0 At f8.0 https://world wide web.dropbox.com/south/ar0yk2sg768w50o/_IMG0262.jpg?dl=0 At f eleven.0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/z4kclcm33yt5cs2/_IMG0265.jpg?dl=0 At f16.0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/59i8bgbqwieclv3/_IMG0266.jpg?dl=0 Read more at: https://world wide web.pentaxforums.com/lensreviews/Super-Takumar-50mm-F1.four-Early.html#ixzz5aA2cKfaX | | | | New Fellow member Registered: May, 2018 Posts: 10 | | Lens Review Date: July 31, 2018 | I can recommend this lens: Yes | Price: $55.00 | Rating:10 |
| Pros: | Construction | | Cons: | Placement of auto/manual switch | | Sharpness: ix Aberrations: ix Bokeh: ten Handling: x Value: 10 Camera Used: East-M10 Mk Two | |
Picked this upward in a thrift store attached to a Spotmatic. The lens was in pristine condition, save for the dainty yellowing that this lens gets with age. The Spotmatic's light meter wasn't working, only I stock-still that past removing the bottom plate and cleaning the battery contact. Shot this on my E-M10 Mk 2 and was admittedly stunned... My doggo
Cropped. If you look carefully you can see the lensman in this capture
Colors are rendered beautifully
| | | | New Member Registered: December, 2017 Posts: 17 | | Lens Review Date: June 7, 2018 | I tin recommend this lens: Aye | Price: $15.00 | Rating:x |
| Pros: | Abrupt, All Metal | | Cons: | Sometimes adds a glow to the paradigm , M42 mount | | Sharpness: 10 Aberrations: nine Bokeh: 10 Handling: 10 Value: 10 Camera Used: K-5iis | |
Probably my favorite, and nearly used lens. Nevertheless it does take its quirks.
Mine doesn't focus particularly well at infinity, so I stop at 30ft and its pin abrupt. Information technology besides can exist pretty difficult to boom the focus while broad open if not in LiveView, which can be abrasive at times if y'all're doing street photography. Yous likewise demand the m42 adapter to use it.
That being said, when the focus is correct, its pin sharp. You tin can pixel choice all you want and you lot'll be plenty pleased. The Bokeh is cute. The experience of the lens is great. If you can go it below $40 USD I'd say information technology's well worth it. | | |
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