{"id":3424,"date":"2011-07-03T07:54:06","date_gmt":"2011-07-03T14:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=3424"},"modified":"2011-07-03T07:54:06","modified_gmt":"2011-07-03T14:54:06","slug":"takumar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=3424","title":{"rendered":"Takumar"},"content":{"rendered":"

I decided to go all retro with my lenses.\u00a0 I went for a walk and took: 28mm 1:3.5 Super_Takumar, 35mm 1:2.3 Auto-Takumar, 55mm 1:1.8 SMC Takumar and the 200mm 1:3.5 Takumar.\u00a0 All of these are manual focus manual exposure lenses that I mounted to my Pentax K-7.\u00a0 It’s hard to define the look of these lenses but they are different than a modern one that is corrected for distortion.\u00a0 Some of the distortion I think actually adds to the look rather than detracting.\u00a0 The 35mm 2.3 has an unusual effect on out of focus areas creating a kind of swirling vortex of blur.\u00a0 The 200mm has pronounced chromatic abaration creating a kind of halo around bright objects.\u00a0 All these effects are what we see when we look at older photographs and there really is no way to re-create them with processing or apps.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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