Mini review Super Takumar 55mm f2
Now this is a funny little lens.
Lens: Super Takumar 55mm F2.0 M42
Year : around the early 1960’s
Price paid : $ 19.00 (yeah no kidding)
This is a lens that is fully manual and needs a convertor to be used on your system, this means it will work on all systems that provide a convertor. The mount is called the M42 mount and has it’s origins with the company Zeiss for it’s Contax S cameras but was also used by Pentacon a brand name and later Praktica. Because it was a great mount that could be used for many different systems the popularity grew very quickly in America it was used by Pentax so as you can see it was for that time the “universal” mount.
There are some different convertors available to mount these lenses on your DSLR, the one I would advise you to buy is the one that supports the AF confirmation system. This means that although the lens is 100% manual you will at least see when you have proper focus, the convertors will retail for between 20.00 and 40.00 US so they won’t break the bank.
