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Servus Michael, griasti ;) Takumars, as the f3.5/28mm that gives this thread it's name, are lenses made by Pentax in M42 mount The first Takumars made from 1952 - 1958 for the socalled "Asahiflex"...

good decision! congrats, and a good sample showing well just how good the 1.4/50 is, I am sure you will like the 28mm too

though maybe 'the' most touristy thing to do, but when in Kyoto walk around Gion district early evening and try to spot some Geishas, actually more likely it will be Geikos, rushing down the street...

thank you Tom, already I do, very much so :)

thank you Godfrey, certainly I am enjoying the GXR very much! I am tried to one day put forward my observations as to how it compares, for me, to the NEX5N. Certainly I don't want to start 'which...

Hi b, thank you very much :) The cat was my first trial testing how well the focus peaking of the GXR works for a fast lens wide open. The trees, I wished I would have taken the time and also had...

thank you for looking an commenting! right, I am very happy to have the GXR! When I bought the NEX5N I had been pondering to get the GXR, the moveable LCD, better resolution VF and above all the...

design both for handling / access to settings and the eye looks really sweet :)

design both for handling / usability / access to settings and the eye looks really sweet :)

since 4 days I am the proud owner of a used GXR + M module and VF-2. Already have been enjoying this amazing camera very much, please see some of my first photos taken with it: Pentax M f1.4/50mm...

great photos! there is nothing like handling a Takumar, I am sure you will like the lens :)

Wow, Tom, thank you very much indeed for the tip and specially for the work that you had put into this and the availability of the spreadsheet. it was easy enough to find, here is the link to your...

yes, I have copied most of them, some I made a bit different. During my first day I mostly used A mode, I like the camera choose the shutter speed and the possibility to easy access exposure bias...

Alexander the performance of this very lens on the GXR was the first thing I was curious about and the first trial pics yesterday mostly were taken with it. Great lens and already I can verify what...

Godfrey is it necessary to have a camera at all? ;) and even though I have so many lenses I don't have enough yet, I'd really 'need' ;) that 21mm Skopar, 40mm Nokton and 90mm Rokkor ;) joking...

proud owner since today :) lenses I have more than I can use, see them here and also photos taken with them but I don't have enough lenses yet, need more in L39 or M mount ;)

oh my..from the first look I simply like the photos coming out from the GXR quite a bit better than those coming out of my NEX5N

thank's a ton, this is very helpful and so friendly, i am very happy :) and I am very happy because I just finished unpacking my GXR and playing with it and it's setting for some 30 minutes. Too...

I just got a Snapshot Skopar f4/25 myself. If you don't need the speed of f2.8 definitely recommendable over the SLR lenses, it is tiny, tiny and most likely sharper than the SLR lenses. As...

yep, good sharpness even wide open ( I must suspect that those which say it's soft wide open either don't  know how to focus more precisely or can't well interpret the very shallow dof of a f1.4/50...