My Favorite Vintage Nifty Fifty Lens for Micro Four Thirds, the SMC Takumar 55mm f2
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- Опубликовано: 24 ноя 2024
- Vintage 50mm lenses on mirrorless cameras are a popular thing. Here is my choice for a vintage nifty fifty lens for micro four thirds. The SMC Takumar 55mm f2 lens delivers great results, is compact and very affordable.
I have the earlier (glow in the dark) version of this lens - Super Takumar 55mm f2.
Produces fantastic images on my E-M1 mark ii.
My favorite nifty “fifty” is also this lens, but I much prefer the earlier Super & Super-Multi-Coated m42 versions of the slightly upgraded f1.8 variants. The wonderful focusing action and knurled metal ring design on a good copy has never been matched by any other manufacturer in my experience, excepting Leica. The rubber ringed replacement on the bayonet SMCs are in my opinion a degrading move, lessens the unique enjoyment of using it. I also have & use the iconic 8 element 50mm f1.4 Super-Takumar, but except for wide open bokeh shooting, I prefer & use the 55s, of which I have both Super & Super-Muti Coated copies.
Couldn't agree more!
An informative video with straightforward editing a breath of fresh air.
Also have this lens as my first m42 which got me hooked on adapted vintage lenses using Em10. I also have Mamiya 55mm F1.8 and Pentacon 50mm F1.8 which both have character more suited for different subject matters. The Takumars are a joy to use classy pieces of kit perfect for fine arts style photography. I’m glad to see I’m not the only one who appreciates these gems. Thank you for such video.
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I enjoyed the video. I have used Ricoh lenses very successfully. A little less expensive than Pentax and similar build and optical quality. PS - I like your dog.
Ricoh made some good lenses. I like the dog too!
I love your videos , hope you will continue to talk about vintage lenses and photography in general, thank you
Thank you and thanks for watching!
I have the same lens and it is a great lens indeed
Thanks for watching!
Great lens! I used the original back in the day on a Pentax Spotmatic.
Many thanks. Keep going.
Thank you for great video.
Do you prefer this lens, or a true 50mm equivalent (25mm) for portraits?
For portraits, I prefer the longer focal length (110mm equiv) you get with a lens like this. It produces a more pleasing perspective, and if a wide aperture is used to reduce depth of field, the background is softened or blurred to isolate the subject.
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Really nice lens ! I use also vintage lenses on my Olympus cameras. I tried recently cheap lens from chinese pergear, 7artsans & TTartisan brands. They are manual lenses based on vintage lens designs. They are very good & come directly with m43 mount. You should try 😀
Thanks for watching. I have tried a few but the vintage lenses are made much nicer! I use some of the wide angles because there aren't vintage equivalents in most cases, like the SLR Magic 8mm f4 I use.
@@dongummphotography i fully understand your choice. I also have 'modern' lenses starting at 7.5 for wide shooting. I think the x2 crop factor is my only frustration related to m43 ecosystem. Sometimes i think about buying a full frame digital camera just to use my 25mm or 28mm as they were design for :)
@@jcduval83 I have thought about that too but just put those lenses on a film camera instead.
Each of the Takumar lenses have something unique about them. My recollection is there is thorium in some but not all of the 55mm f2 Super Takumar models but not the SMC models.
if you are concerned about lens like that don't eat banana either ;)
and just about everything else around us!