The auto/man switches all moved freely, on or off camera, until the
Super-Multi-Coated Taks were introduced in 1971. The restriction was
made for the open-aperture ES and Spotmatic F cameras to come, to
remove the possibility of getting crazy meter readings by having a
stopped-down lens feeding a light reading to a camera thinking the
lens was wide open. When mounted on Spotmatic II and earlier cameras,
the S-M-C lenses do allow for free movement of the auto/manual
switch, but not off the camera and not on the ES/ESII/Spot F cameras.
Joe
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I've got 2 Super Taks (50/1.4 & 24/3.5).
On both the Auto/Man switch moves freely between the two positions.
1) IIRC, that's not right. It should only move to Auto when on a body.
2) Is it easily repaired?
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My 50/1.4 works just like yours. Don't think it's broken, because it
works fine on my SP.
-Adam
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