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Takumar & Super-Takumar

Asahi Optical Company’s earliest Takumar lenses feature simple coatings with relatively low contrast low flare resistance.  More advanced coatings — but still ‘single coat’ — arrived with Super Takumar lenses that boast stronger contrast and brighter images.  These Super Takumars probably have the strongest fan support of the vintage Pentax lenses — they provide naturally warm images and expressive flares.  The advanced single coatings gave way to far more advanced multi-coatings and new naming: SMC Takumars (Super Multi Coating) before finally just being called Pentax SMC.

We rehouse an increasing number of these wonderful lenses.  Most sets will include a combination of Takumar and Super Takumar focal lengths and a variety of the coating approaches that Asahi took over the years.