A Vintage Pair

Posted by Mike Cash (Kiryu, Japan) on 12 November 2007 in Miscellaneous and Portfolio.

To kill time at work I entertained myself taking macro photos of a couple of the lenses from my camera bag.

An old and obsolete Pentax SMC-A 50/2 is holding up an even older and more obsolete SMC Takumar 55/1.8 from the screwmount (pre-1975) era.

The upper lens is responsible for yesterday's "Dancing Girls III", while its 1980s cousin took the recent "Waiting for the Sun to Shine" photo.

Neither is particularly highly regarded among Pentax lenses and both are plentifully available at dirt cheap prices.

VFXY Photos