The dented filter threads I solved by smashing an old filter and putting in place (some violence included) and then attaching the generic lens hood on. The close focus limit of this lens is quite amazing, you can get very close without any extra tools. The lubrication in mine doesn’t seem to agree with swedish cold weather, it gets stiff. Optical geeks: the composition is 6 elements in 4 groups

If you want to read up on VEB Pentacon, there is an article on Camerapedia.

My thoughts

I should perhaps not like this lens, it’s not concidered as one of the desirables amongst the collectors, but I love it. I think it is fantastic for close-ups. The soft bokeh is great, the swirly feeling when you shoot landscapes with the lens wide open, the sharpness is enough for me.

I have made some of my favorite images with this lens, a lens for $3 (if you count it half of the price, and the camera half of the price). The low value and dented parts also makes it a good lens to have on the camera when I move around.

Pros

• Amazing bokeh
• Good close focus (0,33 m)
• Swirly effect when wideopen and using some range
• Can be sharp enough

Cons

• My copy has some mechanical problems
• Stopping down button could be a problem for some
• Smallest aperture only f16

Images

More reading

• http://www.praktica-users.com/lens/mlenses/morp1.8_50.html
• http://m42.artlimited.net/lens_detail.php?lid=66

• Review of Yashica MC Zoom 35-70mm/3.5-4.5
• Review of Pentacon Auto 29mm / 2.8 m42
• Review of Pentacon Electric 135mm f2.8 M42
• Checklist before you buy used cameras and lenses on ebay
• Review of Asahi Auto Takumar 85mm/1.8

The lens
This is a slim little zoom. Filter threads are 52mm. The zoom is wide when you slide it out, tele when you slide it back – quite the opposit(?) to the normal, modern zooms which is tele when extended. The aperture range is from f 3.5 – f 22. My copy of the lens was in very, very good shape. In fact it feels new.

Rumours and guesses
According to (now removed) website cdegroot.com Fotomagazin had said “almost as good as Zeiss“. I also remember reading that it was made in the same place the similar Zeiss-lens, but I now I can’t find the source for that statement. Keep in mind that there are several simliar Yashica-lenses with just slightly different names, there are several versions in the same focal length.

My thoughts
I believe this to be a good lens. Sharp. But I rarely use it, since I’ve become used to fast primes with short minimum focus distance. This zoom is also a bit hard to focus, and my camera is not the easiest on this (the Canon EOS 350D has a very small viewfinder and I don’t use any focusing aids).

Still, I managed to get some very nice images with the Yashica zoom, the winter landscape (see below) is one of my favorites. As you might suspect, I’m not sure on my feelings towards this lens. But it is most certainly worth a try!

Pros

• Good sharp images
• Nice quality feeling
• Slim and lightweight

Cons

• Hard to focus on the Canon EOS 350D.
• Minimum focus quite long.
• Uncertain about the bokeh.

Images I’ve produced with this lens:
(clicking opens a new page with the image on Flickr)

Reading
Sadly most things I can find is my own posts on other forums ;) Here they are anyway:

• http://yashicaforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=163&p=720&hilit=zoom#p720
• http://yashicaforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=179&p=809&hilit=zoom#p809
• http://yashicaforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=185&p=841&hilit=zoom#p841
• http://yashicaforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=187&p=851&hilit=zoom#p851
• http://yashicaforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=224&p=1067&hilit=zoom#p1067
• http://yashicaforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=332&p=1544&hilit=zoom#p1544
• http://forum.mflenses.com/viewtopic.php?t=12857&view=previous

• Review of Tele-Tokina 105mm/2.8 preset T2
• Review of Yashica ML 50mm/2
• How much is a Tele-Tokina worth to you?
• Review of Pentacon Auto 50mm/1.8
• Review of Asahi S-M-C Takumar 55mm/1.8

Super Takumar 135mm/3.5, angleview

The purchase
As usual with these old manual lenses it wasn’t that much hat I payed, £8.50 + shipping £9.00. Later on I also got a hood from ebay, it need an original hood – makes a lot of difference. The hood was £7.95 + shipping £3. So if you buy a lens like this, get a hood too. Since I bought from a good seller in UK, there was no problem with shipping or the purchase. Avarage price on Pentaxforums.com is set to $38.

Super Takumar 135mm/3.5, mount

The lens
The Asahi Super-Takumar 135mm/3.5 is a M42-lens, short telephoto prime. The production year I can find at the moment is 1966, but I guess it was made for several years. Construction is of metal and it feels very well built, like most of the Asahi-lenses from the 60′s.

I love the shape and the long focusring with a great grip. It has a switch for Auto/Manual and a small aperturepin – guessing that is for the Pentaxcameras. I haven’t tried it on my Spotmatic-camera, just on DSLR. The Auto/Manual-switch can be used to stopp the lens down/open it while focusing.

Super Takumar 135mm/3.5, front

Results
My copy is sharp and has good very soft bokeh. Reading the opinions of others on the internet makes me think that there are quality difference in copies. Could also be an error behind the camera though, you never know for sure reading articles or posts on forums if it’s just a crap photographer ;) But as I said, I like the bokeh and sharpness. If you get the right depth of field this can be magic.

Super Takumar 135mm/3.5, side

It is very easy to focus with, smooth and easy to see – which is great for a manual lens with f 3.5, slow manual lenses can often be hard to focus in a small viewfinder like my EOS 350D. The chromatic aberration is not that bad. It can be very sharp – wideopen it’s ok but stopped down even better.

I have this 135mm and a (Carl Zeiss) aus Jena Sonnar 135mm/3.5 in the Zebra version and have a hard time choosing. The Super-Takumar weighs a whole lot less comparing to the aus Jena, and is more tender built. I guess it’s mood of the day that decides which to go with. No doubt the buildquality in the Takumar is superior. I find it amazing how a 60′s lens can be in such good shape as ALL the Super-Takumar 135mm I’ve seen. The Pentax-people take care of their gear.

Images

Wood Cranesbill (Geranium sylvaticum)

Bohemian waxwings

Bohemian waxwing, 100% crop

Portrait

Midsommarblomster

Ice

Autumn road

Pros

• Easy to focus
• Sharp
• Good bokeh
• Nice colours
• Good construction
• Cheap (well… depends of your luck of course)
• Easy to find

Cons

• Definately needs a hood, preferably original of course!
• Contrast can be a bit lower then other Takumars in some circumstances, but that can be good thing.

Reading

Reviews on Pentax-forums
Review on MFlenses
PBase
Jens Jacob at Flickr

• Review of Asahi S-M-C Takumar 55mm/1.8
• Review of Pentacon Electric 135mm f2.8 M42
• Review of Asahi Auto Takumar 85mm/1.8
• Review of Pentax Super Takumar 35mm/3.5
• Review of Yashica ML 50mm/2

S-M-C Takumar 55mm f1.8 M42

The purchase
I got this on swedish ebay in a package with a lot of stuff. There was this Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 55mm/1.8 lens and then:

• Asahi Pentax Spotmatic SLR in great condition
• Tele-Tokina 105mm/f2.8 lens which turned out to be really rare
• Soligor 35mm/3.5 which I sold
• Gossen Sixtar lightmeter
• big Braun 370 BVC flash I can’t get to work (corroded batteries)
• filters and accessories

All for about $40 and then shipping. I think that was a good price. Some of the items are now sold, I keep the ones I use.

Super-Multi-Coated frontlens

The lens
It is a M42-lens with manual focus and aperture. To use it on a DSLR I need a M42-adapter. Like many of the Asahi lenses from the time it has a button for Auto / Manual-mode and you can use this to open and close the aperture while focusing. Very handy. This is well buit, you can feel the quality turning the ring – the focusring is very well balanced, not to stiff, not to loose and fast (not to much turn). It is hard to describe the feeling, but you just know that it’s good quality when holding it.

Aperture blades

The Super-Multi-Coated Takumar lenses from Asahi was manufactured from 1971-1976, during the development of multicoating. The filterthread is 49mm. It’s a slim lens like many other manual, normal primes. This and other 50mm primes of the Takumar era goes for $30 on ebay.

Side of this Takumar 55mm

Results
I think this lens is at it’s best with saturated images and nice soft bokeh. Good for the autumn leafs or portraits. On my Canon EOS 350D the cropfactor is 1.6 giving this lens the imagesize of a 88mm lens (although it really means less of the lens projection is being used). Can be sharp if needed too. I think this lens is best used at a shallow depth of field. Not because it is bad otherwise, but because that’s where it’s strength is.

For some reason I often get wrong focus with this lens even though it feels easy to focus. But when it gets right, it gets good. I’ve shot some photos in to the sun without problem so I guess the coating is ok.

I like this lens, but it has some great competition in my collection so it don’t get used every day.

Images

See images below. You can also watch my set at Flickr.

Autumn berries

"Flags" in sundown

Fence and sun

Machines

Autumn leafs and sky

Pros

• Easy to focus, smooth ring turning and fast moving
• Very well built with metal
• Sharpness, although some think it’s a bit soft at f1.8
• Bokeh is soft
• Vibrant / saturated
• Value for money (one remaining bargain amongst mf-lenses)
• Good enough coating

Cons

• Min aperture f16
• Eventhough easy focus I feel that I miss focus often with this lens… not sure why, but I’m quite convinced it’s just me (or the small viewfinder in the DSLR I have) in this case.

Reading
Reviews at Pentaxforums.com
Topic at Manual Focus Forum
Super-Takumar version at MFLenses

• Review of Yashica ML 50mm/2
• Review of Asahi Auto Takumar 85mm/1.8
• Review of Pentax Super Takumar 35mm/3.5
• Review of Asahi Super-Takumar 135mm/3.5 M42-lens
• Review of Auto Yashinon-DX 50mm/1.7 m42-lens

Auto Takumar 85mm/1.8 on Pentax Spotmatic Camera

The purchase
I bought this lens Asahi Auto Takumar 85mm/1.8 from my friend Daniel together with another lens. I guess this was about 800 SEK (approximately 76€, $98, £66 at the moment of writing) of the price, a bargain because I have later seen it on ebay for about $200. This is in good condition, only problem was a little stiff aperture ring but it loosened up with some exercise. Normal wear on hood and mount. A couple of other friends here in Örebro also bought lenses from Daniel at the same time and he shipped them all to me, so we had a little package-opener party.

Auto Takumar 85mm/1.8

The lens
Auto Takumar 85mm/1.8 is a M42-mounted lens. This means I can mount it on Canon EOS with an adapter. M42 also works with adapter on DSLRs from Pentax, Olympus ans Sony. It also work on all M42 screwmount cameras offcourse.

The optical design is 5 elements in 4 groups. It’s quite wide for an early Takumar lens, 55mm filterdiameter (smaller then many other 85mm-lenses though). It was produced 1960-1964. It has aperturering in the front, nothing I have though of that much, but now I kind of feel I like that design since I can hold the lens steady while changing aperture. Weight 330g. My copy came with an original hood. The whole thing is made of metal offcourse, no plastic feeling anywhere. It has a button which I can use to open the aperture temporarily, I seldom use it hough since I often shoot with his lens at wide apertures.

Asahi Auto Takumar 85mm/1.8 from side

Results
This is probably the best lens I own. Sharp but the bokeh is fantastic – really soft even in flares. The Auto Takumar 85mm/1.8 is good for portraits but also works great for naturephotography. It’s easy to isolate a sharp object to a milkysoft background. Close focus is 85cm, not great but ok. I like the focal length, on my EOS 350D the cropfactor makes it 136mm. Offcourse f-stop 1.8 is fast for a short telephoto.

I answered a question on Flickr earlier today, which lens I would pick if I could only keep one. The answer was Auto Takumar 85mm/1.8. In fact, the list below “cons” will be short since I can’t find many cons.

Mount of Asahi Auto-Takumar 85mm f1.8

A note on later versions
The later Super-Takumar and SMC version, one with different f-stop (1.9) have a different optical formula. Some people say those are much better, I have even read advise to avoid the Auto-Takumar but I feel that’s a bit stupid and write it down to the “all things newer is better”-myth. Sure, they have more glass and coating – which make their properties different and in som ways “better”, but to disregard this fantistic Auto Takumar lens because of that is insane. For me it still outshines all other lenses I have tried including modern primes.

Images

Leaf with butter background

Portrait of my daughter

Frozen leaf

Selfportrait

In town

Pros
+ Best bokeh ever
+ Fast f-stop, clear viewfinder image
+ Build quality… metal… solid like a tank.
+ Size (from what I’ve read most 85s are larger).
+ Button to let you temporarily open the “springloaded” aperture while focusing.

Cons
- Stiff aperture in my copy
- If it’s really important to you, I guess single-coating is a con. But I haven’t noticed it.

Reading
http://www.taunusreiter.de/Cameras/Pentax_Takumar_85mm.html
http://www.pentaxforums.com/lensreviews/showproduct.php?product=284 (they have mixed it up with Super-Multi-Coated)
http://forum.takumar.org/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=48
New: Asahi Pentax Auto Takumar 85mm f/1.8 Lens Review on MFLenses

• Review of Pentax Super Takumar 35mm/3.5
• Review of Auto Yashinon-DX 50mm/1.7 m42-lens
• Review of Yashica ML 50mm/2
• Review of Pentacon Auto 50mm/1.8
• Review of Asahi S-M-C Takumar 55mm/1.8

The purchase
I bought a Yashica J-7 here in Sweden with this lens on it. It is the camera I reviewed on YashicaForum and entered in EpicEdits $50-dollar camera challenge. Both the camera and lens are in great shape, no marks and great lenses. It has yellowed a bit but I haven’t noticed any impact on my images.

Yashinon-DX 50mm f1.7 m42

Side of Yashinon-lens

This normal lens it’s avarage sized, maybe large, for a 50mm. It takes 52mm filters, which is good because it’s the same filtersize as my Yashica MLs, Helios and Canon EF.

Mount of Yashinon-DX 50mm/1.7

The lens has thorium in it, the radioactive substance that makes many old lenses turn yellow. If you get a yellowed one you can put it in the sun for a few weeks and the tint will go away. The radioactivity is not much to worry about, remember this are lenses constructed to be close to negative film in analogue cameras.

Glass of this Yashinon normal lens

Results
I should use this lens more then I do, because every time I get some great shots! Good soft bokeh, sharp where I want it to be, saturated colours. I feel it suitable for nordic blue dark november for some reason.

Images
Mounted on Canon EOS 350D:

Bumblebee with m42-lens Yashinon-DX 50/1.7

Yashinon Spider

Bumblebee

Leaf with bokeh

Swedish blue november woods

Mounted on Yashica J-7 with Tri-X 400:

Stockholm old town on Tri-X

Old town chair on Tri-X

Pros
+ Lovely bokeh and colours
+ Sharp
+ Big notches on aperturering, so you get a grip eventhough it’s thin and close to camera
+ Fast
+ Good buildquality
(+ On some Yashica SLRs the auto-function works)

Cons
- The yellowing by thorium
- Single coating (although I don’t really think that’s a big con)
- No easy “aperture-open-button”
- Actually, I can’t think of that many cons – it’s a great lens.

Reading
A Photo.net thread on Yashinon-lenses
My review of the Yashica J-7 with this lens
Full roll of Tri-X film with J-7 and this lens

• Scans from Yashica J-7 on Tri-X images
• Review of Pentacon Auto 29mm / 2.8 m42
• Review of Yashica ML 50mm/2
• Review of Asahi Auto Takumar 85mm/1.8
• Review of Asahi Super-Takumar 135mm/3.5 M42-lens

Yashica ML 50mm/2 Front

The purchase
I got this lens from Richard for free – thanks :) I also bought one on swedish ebay Tradera, just because it was so cheap and I didn’t wan’t it to go unsold. They are easy to find, buy one if you can!

Side of the lens Yashica ML 50mm/f2

The lens
This is perhaps the most common Yashica ML 50mm lens, but there are other faster versions also f1.4, f1.7, f1.9. It is small in size. The build quality seems good – turning rings feels smooth and reminds me of the feeling with some Pentax-lenses. It is multicoated and fully manual (it has no auto/manual-swtich or preset or anything like that). It is Contax/Yashica-mount so you need such a camera or adapter. I have used the lens on a Canon EOS 350D, for which I bought an adapter from China.

Mount of this manual lens

Results
It’s very sharp. The bokeh is soft and wideopen it reminds me of some russian lenses, with almost a spinning feeling in the background. Good saturated colours. It gives a clear bright image in the viewfinder to focus on. Imagewise I can’t find anything to complain about with this lens.

Yashica ML 50 f2 from front

The Yashica ML 50mm/2 is small. The size feels nice but there is one thing that can be annoying sometimes: the aperturering is the most inner thing on the lens, that is it sist nearest the camerabody and can be hard to get a grip on. The focusring is easy to grip and feels very well built.

As mentioned above there are faster Yashica ML 50mm. However, I think many underestimates this lens because it’s the slowest in the series. In fact I think it can match many faster lenses I’ve tried.

Images

Bokeh example

Long exposure on water

Tree and branch

Autumn tree

Ice with bokeh

Post your Yashica ML 50mm/2 images on YashicaForum.com :)

Pros

+ Sharp, like most wide and normal ML-lenses I’ve tried.
+ Good bokeh, similar to some expensive russian lenses.
+ Saturated colours.

Cons

- Not the fastest 50mm lens, but f2 is often enough.
- Aperture ring very close mount (and therefore camerabody).

Reading & images
On pbase
My flickr-set

• Review of Asahi Super-Takumar 135mm/3.5 M42-lens
• Review of Pentax Super Takumar 35mm/3.5
• Review of Yashica MC Zoom 35-70mm/3.5-4.5
• Review of Asahi S-M-C Takumar 55mm/1.8
• Review of Auto Yashinon-DX 50mm/1.7 m42-lens

Front of the lens

The purchase
I bought this lens in a package with Pentax Spotmatic camera, Asahi S-M-C 55mm/1.8 lens, Soligor 35mm/3.5 (old preset), flash, bag, pocket tripod and some other stuff – it all went for about £40. The things I was aiming for was the Pantax camera and lens. The package arrived, and believe me, it was felt like christmas to unpack this stuff ;)

Side of the lens

The lens
The Tele-Tokina 105mm/2.8 seems to be a bit rare, at least there is not much information on the Internet. Only I could find was for other focal-lengths. It’s an Adapt-all lens, here with M42-mount on. To mount it on my EOS I also need a M42->EOS adapter (it sounds a bit more complicated then it is).

Back and mount of the lens

It feels like small and slender, not bigger then some of my 50mm lenses. 10 blades aperture. The aperture setting is a preset, which runs very smooth. The focus is a bit stiff, which can be a problem as there are 2 threaded mounts (the Adaptall -> M42 and M42 -> EOS) that can come off. Sadly the 49mm filtermount is a bit danged, but it still takes filters and don’t seem to effect function at all.

Filtermount

I’m guessing that this is single-coated, which I like actually. I know, it sounds weird, but all my single coated lenses are very good.

Results
I think it’s quite sharp. The bokeh and flares is round and soft, which I like. I’m very pleasently surprised by this lens. Nice colours, though it was hard to judge that part since I tested the lens in swedish autumn, which is very colourfull in it self.

Images
Images photographed mostly during the swedish autumn in september 2008.

Mushroom

Portrait of my wife and duaghter

Image in to the sun

Autumn road

Pros

• Sharp, even at large aperture
• Nice, soft bokeh
• Small and nice shape
• Single coating – if you like me have good experience with single coated lenses.

Cons

• The focus is a bit stiff, which sometimes loosens the 2 threaded mounts. Bloody annoying.
• Singe coating – if you hold to the beliefe that multi coating is better.

Reading
I haven’t found much info on this at all, please give me tips if you know any.

• Review of Asahi S-M-C Takumar 55mm/1.8
• Review of Pentax Super Takumar 35mm/3.5
• Review of Yashica ML 50mm/2
• Review of Auto Yashinon-DX 50mm/1.7 m42-lens
• Review of Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar 135mm/3.5 Zebra

Pentax Super Takumar 35mm/3.5, an m42 lens.

The purchase
I purchased this lens from a friend on the net for 200 swedish kronor (about 20€). He keeps nagging about these Super Takumars, so I wanted to see what all the fuzz was about ;) He said the lens was worn, but it was just some external colour disappeared, everything else feels very good. Most of the time, the Pentax lenses go for some money both in Sweden and on ebay.

The lens
Pentax Super Takumar 35mm/3.5, has a M42-mount so for my Canon EOS 350D I’ve used an adapter. The build quality is extremely nice, and feel in the focusring is charming. The aperturering clicks in to it’s values, which is a good thing because with this one I think it’s really important to use stop-down metering.

Results
The bokeh is good, one details is that the flares are not round. But otherwise soft, pleasant bokeh. The colours feel very saturated and nice, rich. I had a hood on the lens when I took the images below, not a Pentax hood but a rubber hood in the filtermount. I think you can get sharp images, but some pictures I’ve taken feels soft in a positive way. I should mention that I don’t often work to get sharp images, it’s not often a very important criteria for me (as you might have noticed a lot of my images play with fog, light and such).

I really like some of the images I’ve taken with this lens since I got it, offcourse it’s not all down to the lens but it means something when you got a lens you feel comfortable with. It’s actually my first 35mm prime along with the Yashica ML 35mm f2.8 (which I’m also testing at the moment).

Images

Solros

Bakom station

Parkerad dimma

Svartvit utsikt

Stol i barack

Pros

• Great build quality
• Can be sharp, can be soft (control with f-stop)
  
• Ok bokeh
• Nice, saturated colours
• Feels really nice to use, fantastic feeling in the focusring :)

Cons

• Not round flares (not round aperture), if you like that sort of thing
• Can be a bit hard to find the right focus

Reading
Opinions from the Pentax Forums users.
There’s a lot of links if you search Google. If you have ideas please suggest them in the comments to this post :)

• Review of Asahi Super-Takumar 135mm/3.5 M42-lens
• Review of Yashica ML 50mm/2
• What makes a good lens?
• Review of Asahi S-M-C Takumar 55mm/1.8
• Review of Asahi Auto Takumar 85mm/1.8

Pentacon Electric 135mm/2.8

My purchase
I bought the lens on Tradera (swedish ebay) for SEK 57 (about £5) + shipping, without seeing much of it in the images of the ad. I was lucky, it is in good optical condition and only fault is that it is sometimes a little stuck at the aperture. Good ones is seen on ebay almost every day, so it’s a quite common lens.

The lens
Pentacon Electric 135mm/2.8 manufactured in a factory in Dresden, which was the former Carl Zeiss. A slim lens that are well built. It has a M42 screwmount that makes it easy to fit the EOS with an adapter. I guess you could find these on a Praktica-camera. The Electric version has zebra-type finish (like some Meyer and Zeiss also have). Early versions have close relation the Meyer equilant and more aperture-blades.

Pentacon Electric 135mm/f2.8 from the side

The resistance in the rings is ok in spite of a certain age. Sometimes apertureblades get stuck, but it is easily fixed through a little twist. The focus is very long to turn – this lens is not for fast focusing ;)

Thanks to the aperture ring sits closest to the camera, it is a bit difficult to see the scale because of the Canon EOS built-in flash, which shoots out over the aperture ring. There are of course only a compatibility problem, the lens and the camera was not made to fit together.

Testing
I’ve used this a lot from march to beginning of June 2008. It is supposed to be a great lens for portraits, but I’ve also used with success on landscapes. The best landscapes I’ve taken with this lens was in gray/blue days.

Pentacon 135-lens with case

It is a sharp lens with good colour reproduction. According to information on the Internet, it has very good bokeh, I even saw the words “monster of bokeh” being used. It does have really good bokeh, but earlier versions of this lens is supposed to be even better.

135mm on my digital EOS-sensor with crop the focal length is 216mm, that is closer to tele (but not enough for tele, closeup birdphoto and the like, in my humble opinion… on the other hand I shot swallows with 50mm lens the other day).

I like this lens, but I like the Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar 135mm better, with it’s fast focus and clear image. The Pentacons built in hood seems a bit fragile.

Images

Lake with fog

Swan

Sculpture of boy

Clouds over Garphyttan

Pros and cons
+ Sharp
+ Good colors
+ Good bokeh
+ Built-in lens hood (good against backlight of course)

- Long focus
- Sticky aperture on my copy (though I can live with that)
- As in many lenses EOS-flash sticks out over the aperture ring scale, making it difficult to adjust.
- Built-in lens hood (fragile feeling and awkward with filters)

Further reading

• Discussion at manualfocus.org
• Review at mflenses.com
• 135mm lens war
• Review at Fotosidan.se (swedish)
  
• Digital World Review
• A flickr-set

• Review of Asahi Super-Takumar 135mm/3.5 M42-lens
• Review of MC Helios 44-3 58mm/f2
• Review of Yashica MC Zoom 35-70mm/3.5-4.5
• Review of Asahi S-M-C Takumar 55mm/1.8
• Review of Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar 135mm/3.5 Zebra