Month: July 2017

Today is a good day ;) I received two par­cels — each car­ry­ing an old piece of glass. The first one is an Asahi Tak­u­mar Super-Multi-Coated 3.5/35mm in M42 mount. The second one is an Asahi Tak­u­mar Super-Multi-Coated 3.5/24mm also in M42 mount. Both lenses are in an A+ con­di­tion, look­ing like brand new and… Con­tin­ue read­ing New Asahi Pentax … Read the rest

Recently I had the issue with my Con­tax RX, when the mir­ror hit the lens’ rear part dur­ing sev­er­al expos­ures. After invest­ig­at­ing on the web, I found this a com­mon issue with con­tax cam­er­as. The glue, fix­ing the mir­ror on the mir­ror car­ri­er, gets loose over the years. Thus, as the cam­era is usu­ally stand­ing… Con­tin­ue read­ing Con­tax RX… Read the rest