EOS M Super Takumar 9 Flower

Taken with Canon EOS M camera fitted with Pentax Super Takumar 50 mm f/1.4 lens.

Super Takumar Lives!In a break from my wildlife photos and features, I pick up a clever idea of Richard richardldixon who, a couple of months ago, posted an image taken with a Canon EOS M camera fitted with the marvelous Pentax Super Takumar lens via an adapter. I post a couple of his images below.

By chance, I have one of these lenses from when I started serious photography as a post-doc at the University of York in 19** - a long time ago. The Asahi Super Takumar range of lenses was widely regarded at the time to be the bee's knees of heavy glass lenses, and the one that had wide acclaim was the 1:1.4/50 lens with  apertures running from f/16 to f/1.4. At 50 mm it is a prime lens, zoom lenses were not yet established as the norm in those days. I thought it would be useful and fun to get mine out and follow in Richard's footsteps. At his recommendation I used a K&F Concept M42-EOS M adapter, readily available