I've just secured what appears to be a fairly rare Takumar, the SMC Takumar 45-125mm f4. Introduced along with it's K-mount sister at the end of the screwmount era, it shows a price of $550 in my 1975 Pentax Price Guide (the 5th most expensive Takumar lens sold at that time). The K-mount version was $50 cheaper.
A few K-mount versions seem to be offered, but no screwmount versions currently and none in the last 30 days. By today's standards, a fairly limited zoom range, but reviews of it optically are pretty good. On a DSLR it will give the equiv. of a 68-188mm. When it gets here, I can get to work on having the first SMC Takumar 45-125mm image to be admitted to the Pentax Photo Gallery (Zero images, currently). : ) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
