Indeed, the newer lens is the slightly better one. Overall, the SMC Pentax 35/2 seems to be the better lens, what do you think? Because the image in the corner is closer by I also compared the image at the right border, where the subject is far away Pentax seems much better at the borders. Somewhat better performance from the Takumar here at larger apertures, but I think the Pentax image may have been slightly off focus, because at f/5.6 and f/8, the PEntax is better.Ĭould the difference be a focusing issue? I'm not sure, at f/8 the Pentax still has much better corners. Let's look at the 100% crops from the center of the image: Individual images look quite different from each other, but this is mainly due to the continuously changing weather (clouds or sunlight). I think the Pentax also separates the subject a bit better from the background, best visible f/4 and f/5.6. The Pentax is a bit sharper than the Takumar, and subtle color differences are rendered a bit better.
Surprisingly, the single coated Super-Takumar seems to generate a bit more saturated colors, at least in this situation. Then a comparison when focused on a relatively close subject. I did a little test to find out how both lenses compare.įirst, the minimum focus distance of the Pentax is shorter than the Takumar's.Īlthough the difference in distance is not extremely large, the effect of the image is completely different at minimum distance. And when you compare both lenses in real life, you can actually see that the SMC Pentax 35/2 has a bigger rear element. But, when you look on the Pentax forum, you can actually see that the lens scheme of both lenses is different. It's not strange that people think this, because several K-series lenses, being the first bayonet mount Pentax lenses, were actually similar to the Takumars. There is not too much info on the web on the SMC Pentax 35/2, but several people claim that this K-series 35mm is optically the same as the Takumar 35/2. Posted: Tue 7:47 pm Post subject: Super-Takumar 35mm f/2 vs SMC Pentax 'K' 35mm f/2Ĭaspert79 wrote: Another comparison, this time between the Super-Takumar 35mm f/2 and the rather rare SMC Pentax (K-series) 35mm f/2.