Some Super-Takumar are multicoated but they are uncommon. They were
the last batch of Super-Takumar before the lens mechanism was updated
for open aperture metering.
Super-Takumar and single-coating lenses are now prefered by some
japanese photographers for black-and-white. And today you also find
the new Voigtlander 40/1.4 as a S.C. lens, and it is more expensive
than the M.C. version!
Will there be a S.C. craze as there has been a bokeh craze?
Andre
The SuperTaks are multicoated, it's just not the SMC coatings, which
are better.
And darnit, I've been looking for a SMC/Super Takumar 35/3.5...
-Mat
On 10/2/05, Peter Spiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Today at a camera fair I passed up what might have been a good deal on a
SuperTakumar 35mm f/3.5 lens. I'm hoping to find the multi-coated version
instead. Does anybody have experience in using both kinds? Is there a
noticeable difference, e.g., in contrast, under ordinary shooting
conditions? (I've never actually used a Super Takumar lens, but I used to
have some pre-multi-coated Olympus Zuiko lenses which I recall had quite low
> contrast, and this has prejudiced me against these older lenses.)
