![]() ![]() Other manufacturers have this and their own focus assist systems too. On the Sony mirrorless I use, focus peaking has been an unbelievable help to me. ![]() Many new and new-ish digital cameras come with some sort of manual focus aid too. ![]() They’re not hard to learn.įor the former, I recommend aperture priority mode. If you’re not used to either, don’t worry. Using most, if not all, vintage lenses on digital cameras will mean shooting in some sort of non-fully auto mode and with manual focus. Mine is a Super-Takumar 55mm f1.8 with the product code 37101 which, as you can see from the table below, makes it from sometime between 19. If you have a 55mm Takumar and want to know how old it is, you can figure it out by the name and by the product code found on the reverse of the auto/manual diaphragm switch, if there is one. Production of the lenses ended in the mid-1970s. The first lot of Takumar 55mm f1.8 lenses date back to the late 1950s and were known simply as that: Takumar 55mm f1.8.Īs newer versions were released and used on cameras like the Asahi Pentax Spotmatic, they were given prefixes like Auto, Super, Super-Multi-Coated, and SMC. became what we now know, generally, as Pentax, which is now itself a subsidiary of Ricoh. In the years that followed, the Asahi Optical Co., Ltd. It was founded by one Kumao Kajiwara who named the lenses produced after his brother, the painter Takuma Kajiwara. However, there was once a camera manufacturer in Japan known as the Asahi Optical Co. History of the Asahi / Pentax / Super-Takumar 55mm f1.8īefore I bought this vintage lens, the only Asahi I knew was the beer. ![]()
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