Thanks, good to know. The Takumar probably is overrated then. Would the image quality of Zeiss Flektogon 20mm be near the K-mount Pentax 20mms? There are f4 and a f2.8 (newer) versions running on german ebay just now Regards Bernd
-----------------original message------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 17:25:13 -0500 From: "J. C. O'Connell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: Automatic diaphragm on adapted Takumar? Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit forget it the 20mm SMC Takumar sucks. All the Kmount 20mms are much better. JCO > -----Original Message----- > From: U+B Scheffler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 5:01 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: OT: Automatic diaphragm on adapted Takumar? > > > > Hi all, > I have a question concerning the use of a Takumar lens with > k-mount adaptor > on (for example) my K1000: > > Will the automatic diaphragm work or do I have to close the diaphragm for > each shot manually? > > Especially I thought of using a SMC Takumar 20mm lens which will be less > expensive than k-mount 20mm-lenses. and I guess the quality might > be almost > the same - or probably better (?). > > Regards > Bernd > >
