The multi coating is not that big a deal if you follow the the usual precautions of not shooting into a light source and use a good lens hood. However the later lenses, those which are the same optical formulas as the subsequent [K] mount lenses are usually better than the same focal length of an earlier design. That's kind of a duh comment, but it is something to keep in mind. The Super Takumar lenses coatings were excellent and are still better than many manufactures mulit-coatings.
Tim Bray wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Bob Sullivan <[email protected]> wrote: > Tim, >>A screwmount SMC Pentax 300mm f4 or 400mm f5.6 would be great >>Most everyone else passes on these as too old, their problem! >Those 300 screwmounts (under the Takumar name, right?) are all over >the place in the non-SMC version, harder to find with the SMC. How >big a deal is the coating? -Tim -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
