Stevenson Gawen
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Recently I did someone a small favour (different story) and he surprised me by producing a bag of unwanted miscellaneous photographic bits.
I had a look through it, (involuntarily producing noises probably reminiscent of a child at Christmas!) finding a couple of nice (if not super exciting) lenses, in very good condition, among other bits.
He actually offered the lot to me for nothing, but I didn't feel that was fair and said so. We eventually settled it honorably with the exchange of a crispy $50 note.
Most of the interesting bits are in this picture.
The mini tripod is sort of 'cute'
The lenses are:
a Nikon F-mount Tamron 28-200 f3.8-6.3 in the wrong box!
an M42 mount "Asanuma" 135mm f2.8
and an M42 mount Tokina-Special 35mm f2.8
The superzoom is predictably (for a film era wide range zoom) slow and soft, but fully functional on my D750 body. I feel like it's decentred too, but not confirmed yet...
The two primes I haven't been able properly test yet, as I don't have anything to mount them to. A couple of cheap adapters (to Sony E mount and Pentax K mount) are in the post as I type!
What I did do was pop my existing Pentax K to Sony E adapter on my Sony A7S, and simply held the lens in place against the adapter. The flange distance is (nominally) the same, so it worked quite well, albeit very awkward from an ergonomic perspective!
The preliminary results have left me quite impressed - they're both pleasingly sharp, especially the 35mm Tokina. I've had a 35mm Tokina before and didn't like it much - low contrast - this one seems a lot better, from a very limited test. The rather generic 135mm is nice too - a little soft and hazy wide open, but not unpleasantly so.
I'm looking forward to the adapter arriving so I can use them for some real shooting. Initially digital, on the A7s, but I think the 35mm would be nice on my Pentax film bodies too. I've read slightly conflicting reports of focus-to-infinity issues with the M42-to-K adaptors, but I'm hopeful.
A few rather dull sample shots below...
The Asanuma 135mm at f8 near minimum focus distance
135mm wide open at f2.8
As above
Tokina 35mm wide open at f2.8
Tamron 28-200 on D750 at 65mm f5
Tamron 28-200 on D750 at 82mm f8
Tamron 28-200 on D750 at 195mm f5.6 (according to Exif - I thought I was right at the 200mm end) - 1/60th ISO12800 not helping sharpness
I like this one though!
I had a look through it, (involuntarily producing noises probably reminiscent of a child at Christmas!) finding a couple of nice (if not super exciting) lenses, in very good condition, among other bits.
He actually offered the lot to me for nothing, but I didn't feel that was fair and said so. We eventually settled it honorably with the exchange of a crispy $50 note.
Most of the interesting bits are in this picture.
The mini tripod is sort of 'cute'
The lenses are:
a Nikon F-mount Tamron 28-200 f3.8-6.3 in the wrong box!
an M42 mount "Asanuma" 135mm f2.8
and an M42 mount Tokina-Special 35mm f2.8
The superzoom is predictably (for a film era wide range zoom) slow and soft, but fully functional on my D750 body. I feel like it's decentred too, but not confirmed yet...
The two primes I haven't been able properly test yet, as I don't have anything to mount them to. A couple of cheap adapters (to Sony E mount and Pentax K mount) are in the post as I type!
What I did do was pop my existing Pentax K to Sony E adapter on my Sony A7S, and simply held the lens in place against the adapter. The flange distance is (nominally) the same, so it worked quite well, albeit very awkward from an ergonomic perspective!
The preliminary results have left me quite impressed - they're both pleasingly sharp, especially the 35mm Tokina. I've had a 35mm Tokina before and didn't like it much - low contrast - this one seems a lot better, from a very limited test. The rather generic 135mm is nice too - a little soft and hazy wide open, but not unpleasantly so.
I'm looking forward to the adapter arriving so I can use them for some real shooting. Initially digital, on the A7s, but I think the 35mm would be nice on my Pentax film bodies too. I've read slightly conflicting reports of focus-to-infinity issues with the M42-to-K adaptors, but I'm hopeful.
A few rather dull sample shots below...
The Asanuma 135mm at f8 near minimum focus distance
135mm wide open at f2.8
As above
Tokina 35mm wide open at f2.8
Tamron 28-200 on D750 at 65mm f5
Tamron 28-200 on D750 at 82mm f8
Tamron 28-200 on D750 at 195mm f5.6 (according to Exif - I thought I was right at the 200mm end) - 1/60th ISO12800 not helping sharpness
I like this one though!
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). That 35mm does, indeed, look to be a good'n. Have fun!
