4 photos Using the X-Pro1 – Mitakon/Zhongyi Lens Turbo MD/FX – MD/M42 adapter – Asahi Super-Takumar 50mm f/1.4
Focus is paper thin – Bokeh is harsh and flawed.
4 photos Using the X-Pro1 – Mitakon/Zhongyi Lens Turbo MD/FX – MD/M42 adapter – Asahi Super-Takumar 50mm f/1.4
Focus is paper thin – Bokeh is harsh and flawed.
Please review Helios 44M-4 58/2 + Lens Turbo.
Thank you.
Great idea! I’ll do that next 🙂
Thank you for reading.
/J
Great!
Would like to second the helios review
Writing one up this weekend 🙂 Had a couple of fun days with the lens turbo and Helios 😀 Definitely a fun combo.
Thank you for reading
Third’d. Just bought one.
Should have it done this weekend… (I hope) 😛
Hi, based on your experience using manual glass, is there such a thing as a “universal mount” or at least the most adaptable mount? The reason I’m asking is that I want to get a speedbooster/lens turbo that can be adapted for use for multiple lens systems such as what you did here – a Minolta MD lens turbo that can be used with Minolta MD and M42 lenses.
Have you tried the Super Tak 55mm 1.8??? It seems to be gaining some steam from the mirrorless crowd and I figure you would have such a cheap lens in possession.
Hey! – Not yet. I have the 1.4 and the 55mm f/2. I actually like the f/2 better than the f/1.4
Jonas, I picked up a Super Takumar 50mm f/1,4 recently, I have used it with both Kipon and K&F adapters (they both seem perfectly). The colours that you can get are simply out of this world, I simply call it analog colour because it doesn’t seem possible to get these kinds of colours with newer lenses. I always thought people were better at processing than I am (I don’t do that much, it usually doesn’t take me more than 10-15 minutes to finish a photo) but your vintage lens reviews definitely have me thinking in another direction. Thanks very much for taking the time to document these lenses for all of us. Have you tried a Carl Zeiss Flektagon, or a Carl Zeiss Pan Colar? I have ordered both of these, in addition to the usual vintage starter of a Helios 44M-4.
https://500px.com/photo/178594067/autumn-colours-no-2-by-sean-hardie
https://500px.com/photo/178230119/street-scene-kingston-ontario-by-sean-hardie
Help… !
Well…. I found an excellent Super Takumar f/1.4 50mm, 1966, in perfect condition…;-)
My idea was to use it on my XT-20 and XE-2, with a ZhongYi lens turbo II… to get a very “luminous” lens with maybe “sweet bokeh”…
BUT: when I screw the jewel to my Lens TurboII, it starts blocking…. can’t go all the way… Like around 3meters, feels like the rear lens of the “Super Tak'” gets in contact withLens Turbo II “front” lens….
Any ideas about this?
Did you encounter such annoying detail?
thanks for reply… 😉
Pascal Cosse
Pascal, unfortunately it does not go more than 3 m.
See the list of compatible lenses with this speedbooster.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fli3sS84XZNcUECZa0sMgI439CtUOrPDY3FmVEBa6SE/edit?pref=2&pli=1#gid=0
http://vintagelensreviews.com/vlr/articles/zhongyi-lens-turbo-ii-compatibility-and-mounting-problems/