Canon EOS 350D with SMC Takumar 2/55mm

Veijo Vilva

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FOV corresponds to a 88mm lens on a 35mm camera a very sharp lens very good multicoating very high quality, all metal construction (except the rubberized focusing ring) very smooth focusing the lens is mounted with an M42-to-EOS adapter manual focus AV (aperture priority) or M (manual)

A NOTE CONCERNING THE BOOKSHELF TEST PHOTOS my test procedure isn't very rigorous bad results may be caused by bad focusing as manual focusing in dim lighting isn't any too easy when the DOF for this level of expected sharpness is just a few millimeters in either direction the backs of the books aren't at exactly the same depth, the maximum difference is about one inch. Only a few books at the center and at the upper right-hand corner have been aligned - roughly. the test only shows that the specific tested lens is at least as good as my results -- even that individual lens might be better, and others of the same make and model may be better or worse anyhow, the equivalent magnification of the 100% crops is just plain sick, i.e. about 48x on a typical 17", 1024x768 CRT. Normally, 8x has been considered a reasonable maximum for critical sharpness from film. At 48x magnification, a 35mm film frame would be about 172cm (68") wide, and even a 1.6x crop factor dSLR frame would be 107cm (42") wide!

Nothing Wrong with the Sharpness (Full-size) (f/5.6, 0.4s, tripod-mounted, remote release) (Quite good, even compared with the extremely good Carl Zeiss Sonnar 2.8/85 T*) A crop: Note the cloth texture of the book in the middle, the width of the back is 20mm A crop from the upper right corner: The sharpness seems quite uniform from corner to corner.

Note: All shots hand-held Against light, not much lens flare (f/8, infinity focus) (Full-size) (Note: there is a reflecting glass surface on the left, the soft section is a reflection.) A crop: A 100% crop (Full-size)

Links

Early PENTAX TAKUMAR Lenses Lens Resolution Test (by Yoshihiko Takinami) My Favorite Lens (by Mike Johnson at The Luminous Landscape) Asahi Optical Co. SMC Takumar 55mm f/2.0, info at m42.artlimited.net My M42 on EOS Pages: Carl Zeiss Jena MC Sonnar 2.8/200mm EOS 350D with Carl Zeiss Jena MC S 3.5/135mm (Sonnar) EOS 350D with Carl Zeiss Jena T Biotar 2/58mm EOS 350D with Carl Zeiss Jena MC Flektogon 2.8/20mm EOS 350D with Carl Zeiss Jena Flektogon 4/20mm EOS 350D with Meyer Oreston electric 1.8/50mm EOS 350D with Pentacon electric 2.8/135mm EOS 350D with Pentacon MC 1.8/50mm EOS 350D with Pentacon MC 2.8/29mm EOS 350D with Schneider-Kreuznach Curtagon 2.8/35mm EOS 350D with Schneider-Kreuznach C-Curtagon 2.8/35mm EOS 350D with Fujinon 2.2/55mm EOS 350D with Tele-Takumar 5.6/200mm EOS 350D with Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 3.5/135mm EOS 350D with SMC Takumar 2/55mm EOS 350D with SMC Takumar 1.4/50mm EOS 350D with Helios-40-2 1.5/85mm EOS 350D with Helios-44-2 2/58mm EOS 350D with Industar-50-2 3.5/50mm EOS 350D with Jupiter-6 2.8/180mm EOS 350D with MC Jupiter-9 2/85mm EOS 350D with MC Volna-9 2.8/50mm Macro EOS 350D with MC Zenitar-M 2.8/16mm Fisheye

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