A few minutes after your [this] post, Bob Rapp posted another answer
as to what it is ~ the Auto/Manual lever disabler pin. When mounted on
a Spotty F or ES, it keeps the lever from being moved to Manual.
Provided it's still working, that is! ;^)
keith
John Coyle wrote:
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> Sorry Keith, I've n
The small pin you are talking about is for defeating the A/M lever when
mounted on a "F" or "ES" bodies.
Bob Rapp
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Sorry Keith, I've never seen one of those! And I misinterpreted it's
position - now I look at your post again it's much too far from where
the aperture pin is.
Can't help with that one, I'm afraid.
John Coyle
Brisbane, Australia
On Friday, September 13, 2002 2:23 PM, Keith Whaley
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If it's a SMC Takumar, (and I would expect it is), when that lens is mounted
on a Spotmatic F or ES there is a groove that keeps that pin from being pressed
into the lens and stops the lens from being set from Auto to Manual, which
would
confuse the meter readings. On any other Pentax M42 body t
Keith:
Glad that helped - doing the research also clarified my own memories!
The spring-loaded pin is the one that is depressed from the camera body
to close the aperture down for exposure. Interestingly enough, I have
two examples of the 50/1.4, one labelled "Super-Takumar" and one "SMC
Takum
Thanks, John.
It all helps. Now I'm faced with selling a couple of my stop-down
aperture lenses and replacing with full-aperture metering lenses. I
bought a couple when I was 'unaware.'
I really hate getting rid of my Super Takumar 135mm f/3.5 M-42 mount.
It's so smooth and small, and almost br
Steve,
I have a Takumar F 1:4-5.6 70-210mm, and an SMC-F 1:3.5-4.5 28-80mm zoom,
and used both on my recent sortie afloat at the Tall Ships, with excellent
results(SF-1 and MZ-7). When I get my slides scanned, I'll post a link.
James
You forgot to mention that most but not all Super Multicoated Takumar's
allowed open aperture metering with Spotmatic F and ES cameras. While
most Super Takumar's did not. (Although there were exceptions).
At 02:02 PM 9/12/2002 +1000, John wrote:
>Hi Keith:
>Here's my understanding of the vario
I figured that's what you meant.
On the other hand, I allowed for the fact that it might have been just
one more colloquialism I'd never heard!
keith whaley
John Coyle wrote:
>
> Uuuurgggh - my damned spell-checker put Bagdad in instead of "badged"
> in my earlier reply!
> Sorry, all.
> John
Steve Pearson wrote:
>
> Thanks all for the input. I think I am now more
> confused than ever. Has anyone actually answered my
> question? Do we now for sure that the Takumar F
> 70-210 does not have SMC coatings?
My guess is that Pentax would actually engrave 'SMC' on ALL lenses
that had t
> Except for the Medium format lenses which were branded Takumar for
> a much longer time.
...and which have always stood for quality in the Pentax medium
format lens lineup.
Fred
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> Subject: Re: SMC F 70-210 Vs. Takumar F 70-210
>
> > Hi Rob,
> >
> > You've brought up an interesting point. Well, to me anyhow!
> >
&
Isn't a Takumar like, uh... not so very coated, a Super Takumer a bit coated
and a SMC Takumar very coated...?
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From: "Keith Whaley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 18:01
Subject: Re: SMC F
> By your statement "...I assume that the Takumar doesn't employ SMC
> coatings," you made me wonder why you would assume such a thing.
> So I checked all my M-42 Takumar lenses, and some do indeed
> include the SMC coating, so just because it's a Takumar is not
> necessarily associated with SMC c
Hi Rob,
You've brought up an interesting point. Well, to me anyhow!
By your statement "...I assume that the Takumar doesn't employ SMC
coatings," you made me wonder why you would assume such a thing.
So I checked all my M-42 Takumar lenses, and some do indeed include
the SMC coating, so just be
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