Asahi-Kogaku Takumar 58mm f2.4 Lens Test
This post has a series of DSLR tests using the Asahi-Kogaku Takumar 58 mm f/2.4 lens that came with my Asahiflex IIa which I wrote about yesterday (link). I compare it to a Super Multi Coated Takumar 55 mm f/1.8 lens and a Helios-44-2 58 mm f/2.0 lens. The Asahiflex lens has an m37 mount, the others have m42 mounts. The Super Multi Coated Takumar and Helios lenses are the ones that I own with similar focal lengths to the Asahiflex lens and both are quite well known among the vintage lens fraternity so provide useful baselines for comparison.
A Complete Asahiflex Kit
I recently acquired an Asahiflex IIa kit. It seems to be an original kit – the previous owner bought it many years ago as a single lot and did not add to it. Included are three lenses with cases and hoods, extension tubes, bellows, a manual and a contemporary light meter. Also included with the sale to me is an Asahiflex IIb body for parts only as it has bits missing, and a more recent Vivitar 2800 flash that I think was just tossed in the camera case and forgotten – it had very badly leaking batteries.
A few weeks after buying the camera the man I bought it from contacted me to say he had found the manual, a lens case, the parts body and some filters that might be from the camera, all of which he gave to me at no extra charge. The filters turned out to not fit, but one of them fits on my original Olympus Pen. The IIb parts body is invaluable as many of its components are the same as the IIa. The manual is available on-line in various places, but I have scanned it and you can see it (more…)
Newcastle 2
Another shot made while waiting for a friend’s wedding to start on Newcastle Island a couple of months ago.
St. Stephen’s
This photo was taken on a trip out with my mother a couple of months ago.
It is in St. Stephen’s Anglican Church which, as the church website says, is “the oldest church in British Columbia used continuously as a place of worship since its construction.”
I spent a nice afternoon with my mother yesterday, poking around thrift stores in Sidney.
I even found the most wonderfully crapola toy camera that deserves to have a roll of film run through it.
Dad Drain III
This was just before this dad and his kids took off their shoes to get out on the drain (see those shots here Dad Drain, Dad Drain II).
This continues images from the ME Super tests (see here).
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