![]() ![]() Standard lens for the Pentax 6x7 system, field of view 37 degrees horizontally like a 55mm lens on a 24x36mm camera. ![]() Sharpness: 10 Aberrations: 9 Bokeh: 10 Handling: 10 Value: 10 Camera Used: 6X7, 67 II, 645 Z © sharable with attribution | Check camera compatibilityĮngraved name: SUPER-TAKUMAR/6x7 1:2.4/105ġ969: SUPER-TAKUMAR/6x7 1:2.4/105 (this lens)ġ971: Super-Multi-Coated TAKUMAR/6x7 1:2.4/105 The lens exists in three variants, all with the same optical formula. I started using an older SMC 105 Takumar at our Office in the 1980's and I found it was extremely sharp, it gave a "normal" FOV on the 6X7. One of my pictures of a newly restored watercourse was used to make a magnificent 4 feet by 8 feet color background for a Ministry of Agriculture kiosk that was used at fairs all around Quebec for a couple of years. I bought one for myself after I retired, a newer late-model 67 and it proved equally sharp on my Pentax 67 II. Now I'm using it on a digital 645 Z camera with a Pentax '67 to 645' adapter in automatic exposure Av mode. Its large maximum aperture makes focusing very easy as the image readily snaps in and out of focus in the viewfinder. It acts as a short telephoto on the 645 sensor (equivalent to an 85 mm in FF). Closest focusing distance is only one meter though. ![]() Sharpness: 8 Aberrations: 9 Bokeh: 10 Handling: 10 Value: 9 Camera Used: Pentax 67II For landscape and scenery pictures, it proves to be very sharp at middle apertures, f/8 to f/16 being its optimum opening range. If you have a K mount, and I assume you do, this lens is essentially the medium-format version of the xx 50mm f/1.4. Used right, both can produce wonderful, contrasty portraits with absolutely gorgeous bokeh. ![]() Used incorrectly, both can be soft / mushy and generally bleh, with average colours. Sharpness leaves something to be desired (it's adequate) that said, it's intended use is not as a landscape or even product lens. It's close focusing distance is frustratingly far. But it really shines at approximately 7 - 15 fifteen feet as a portrait lens, and there is really nothing else in the 67 lineup, as far as I know, that fulfills the same role. At 150 and 165, you would lose that lovely field of view to object isolation ratio, if I can express it that way, that is the unique and wonderful thing about this lens. I have seen the images from the 90mm (I debated getting this lens instead), and they don't seem to have the same character.įor perspective, I have three 67 lenses, and in order of preference they are the 45mm (best), 105mm, then 75mm 4.5. Sharpness: 9 Aberrations: 9 Bokeh: 10 Handling: 9 Value: 9 Camera Used: Full Frame 135 Canon Sharp, fast, 3-d effect, excellent for portrait. ![]()
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