{"id":8286,"date":"2013-03-29T12:25:31","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T19:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=8286"},"modified":"2013-03-29T12:25:31","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T19:25:31","slug":"port-mann-attack-of-the-takumars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=8286","title":{"rendered":"Port Mann (Attack of the Takumars)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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These are all shot with older M42 mount Pentax Takumar lenses on my Pentax K-7 DSLR. They are actually easy to use when you restrict yourself to only using this one type. They thread on and off easy enough and you can leave the camera in manual focus mode which provides focus confirmation for the central focus point. Perhaps it’s because I grew up with manual focus cameras but it mystifies me somewhat why people obsess over how many focus points a cameras autofocus system has, are they just pointing the camera at a scene and letting the camera decide what’s important? It’s also necessary to leave the lenses in the manual aperture settings but metering is done with a quick press of the green button on the camera which is common to all Pentax DSLRs and the Q.<\/p>\n

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The lenses here consisted of the 28mm 3.5 Takumar, 35mm f2.3, 50mm f1.4, 200mm f4 and the 300mm f4. The real standouts though are the 50mm f1.4 and the 200 f4. The 35mm is actually pretty bad and could be used as a soft focus lens as seen here.<\/p>\n

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