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Takumar / SMC Pentax 67 105mm f/2.4

Pentax · Pentax 67 · 1969

single source, unconfirmed

Also known as: Pentax 67 105mm f/2.4 · Pentax 6x7 105mm f2.4 · Takumar 6x7 105mm f/2.4 · Super-Takumar 6x7 105mm f/2.4 · Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 6x7 105mm f/2.4 · SMC Takumar 6x7 105mm f2.4 · SMC TAKUMAR/6x7 1:2.4/105 · SMC PENTAX 67 105mm F2.4 · smc PENTAX 67 105mmF2.4 · SMC Pentax 67 105/2.4 · Pentax 105mm f/2.4 Takumar · ペンタックス 67 105mm f2.4 · ペンタックス 6×7 105mm F2.4 · スーパータクマー 6×7 105mm F2.4 · SMCタクマー 6×7 105mm F2.4 · SMCペンタックス67 105mmF2.4

Variants & identification

Variant Mount Years Serial ranges Production
Super-Takumar/6×7 105mm f/2.4 (1969, single-coated) Pentax 67 1969–1971 — —
Super-Multi-Coated Takumar/6×7 105mm f/2.4 (1971) Pentax 67 1971 — —
SMC Takumar/6×7 105mm f/2.4 (shortened engraving) Pentax 67 — — —
SMC Pentax 67 105mm f/2.4 (1989, rubber focusing ring) Pentax 67 1989 — —
  1. Element and group counts, closest focus, angle of view, filter thread, dimensions and weight are from Ricoh Imaging's 67II lens page and catalogue (SMC Pentax 67 version) and from the Japanese Wikipedia lens list, which cites the Asahi Pentax catalogues of September 1970 and January 1975 and the Pentax 67/645 catalogue of August 1990. The English Wikipedia table gives 628 g for the SMC Takumar version; Ricoh's 590 g is for the SMC Pentax 67 lens.
  2. The nine-blade diaphragm is from Sasha Krasnov's review and Michael Nguyen's Japan Camera Hunter piece, not from a maker document.
  3. Generation dates: 1969 and 1971 from camera-wiki and English Wikipedia; 1989 for the SMC Pentax 67 lens from Armstrong, matching the body's renaming in November 1989. The change from the spelled-out Super-Multi-Coated to the SMC Takumar engraving is undated in every source consulted. No end date for any version was found.
  4. The two coating sub-variants of the SMC Pentax 67 lens rest on one source (Armstrong); the single-source flag on this page is for that claim.
  5. No 1969 launch price in yen or dollars was found. The only maker price is Ricoh Imaging's undated 67II-era Japanese list, ¥100,000 before tax.
How to tell them apart (expand)
  • Four engravings, one optical design: Super-Takumar/6x7 (1969), Super-Multi-Coated TAKUMAR/6x7 (1971), SMC TAKUMAR/6x7 (later, undated), SMC PENTAX 67 (1989). Every version reads 1:2.4/105 or 1:2.4 105mm and takes a 67 mm filter
  • Metal focusing ring on all three Takumar versions; rubber-covered ring only on the SMC Pentax 67
  • The Takumar versions use thoriated glass and can yellow; the SMC Pentax 67 does not (Armstrong, Krasnov, Peter Jeffrey)
  • Inner-bayonet lens on the 6×7's double bayonet: the inner mount takes the wide-to-telephoto lenses and the outer mount the super-telephotos from 400 mm (ja Wikipedia). Mount diameter 72.0 mm, flange 84.95 mm

Super-Takumar/6×7 105mm f/2.4 (1969, single-coated):

  • Front ring engraved Super-Takumar/6x7 1:2.4/105 with no coating prefix; all-metal focusing ring
  • Listed in the Asahi Pentax catalogue of September 1970 as 5 groups / 6 elements with a 67 mm screw-in attachment (ja Wikipedia, citing that catalogue)
  • Thoriated glass: Jeffrey Armstrong's version guide calls it the version most prone to yellowing, balsam separation and fungus

Super-Multi-Coated Takumar/6×7 105mm f/2.4 (1971):

  • Front ring engraved Super-Multi-Coated TAKUMAR/6x7 1:2.4/105; metal focusing ring as on the 1969 lens
  • Same 6/5 optics; the Asahi Pentax catalogue of January 1975 gives 1 m closest focus and the 67 mm attachment (ja Wikipedia)
  • Still thoriated: Armstrong reports seeing multiple yellowed second-version lenses, against the common claim that only the first version yellows

SMC Takumar/6×7 105mm f/2.4 (shortened engraving):

  • Front ring engraved SMC TAKUMAR/6x7 1:2.4/105 in place of the spelled-out Super-Multi-Coated; otherwise the same barrel and metal focusing ring
  • Japanese catalogues use SMCタクマー for the whole multicoated Takumar series, so the 1975 catalogue entry does not separate this engraving from the previous one

SMC Pentax 67 105mm f/2.4 (1989, rubber focusing ring):

  • Engraved SMC PENTAX 67 1:2.4 105mm (the 67 without the ×); rubber-covered focusing ring in place of the metal one
  • Non-radioactive high-index glass (Armstrong; Krasnov); does not yellow
  • Ricoh Imaging's 67II lens page: 5 groups / 6 elements, 46°, f/22, 1.0 m, 67 mm filter, 91.5 × 60 mm, 590 g, hood PH-SB67 sold separately
  • Listed in the Pentax 67/645 catalogue of August 1990 (ja Wikipedia)

Serial-range notes

SMC Pentax 67 version, earlier vs later serials
Jeffrey Armstrong reports two sub-variants of the 1989 lens: earlier serial numbers with a strong purple/red coating cast, later ones green/yellow. He gives no serial boundary and no other source consulted mentions it, so it is carried as a single-source observation.

Specifications

Construction
6 elements / 5 groups
Aperture range
f/2.4–f/22
Diaphragm blades
9
Min. focus
1 m
Dimensions
91.5 × 60 mm
Weight
590 g
Filter
67 mm
Years manufactured
1969
Country
Japan
Coating
Single-coated on the 1969 Super-Takumar; Super-Multi-Coating on every version from 1971
Original price
¥100,000 before tax, body only, on Ricoh Imaging's undated 67II-era Japanese list (the same list prices the 67II body at ¥240,000). No 1969 launch price in yen or dollars found.

What reviewers say

Optical Ratings

Aggregated from the reviews above — follow the links for the full picture.

Flare & ghosting
red orb backlit
Optical formula

No maker cross-section found: Ricoh Imaging's 67II pages and catalogue give the 5-group / 6-element count without a drawing, and the 1970, 1975 and 1990 Asahi catalogues that the Japanese Wikipedia list cites were not seen directly.

History

The 105mm f/2.4 was the standard lens of the Asahi Pentax 6×7 when the camera went on sale in July 1969, and it remained the standard lens through the 1976 mirror-lock-up revision, the Pentax 67 of November 1989 and the 67II of November 1998. The Japanese Wikipedia lens list, working from Asahi’s own catalogues, gives the same construction at every stage: 6 elements in 5 groups, 67 mm attachment, and from the January 1975 catalogue a closest focus of 1 m. Ricoh Imaging’s 67II page for the last version gives 46°, f/2.4 to f/22, 1.0 m, 91.5 × 60 mm and 590 g, with the PH-SB67 hood sold separately, and prices it at ¥100,000 before tax. On 6×7 it covers what a 55 mm lens does on 35 mm, and reviewers agree that nobody buys it for that.

Four engravings share the design. The 1969 lens reads Super-Takumar/6x7 and has a standard single coating. In 1971 Asahi applied its seven-layer multicoating to all surfaces and the ring became Super-Multi-Coated TAKUMAR/6x7, later shortened to SMC TAKUMAR/6x7; no source consulted dates the shortening for the 6×7 line, and the Japanese catalogues file both under one SMCタクマー entry. The 1989 lens reads SMC PENTAX 67 and is the one with the rubber-covered focusing ring. The three Takumars use thoriated glass and yellow with age. Jeffrey Armstrong, who wrote the version guide most sellers quote, reports plenty of yellowed second-version lenses despite the belief that only the first one yellows, and says the SMC Pentax 67 uses a non-radioactive high-index glass that does not. He also reports two coating casts by serial within the 1989 lens, purple-red early and green-yellow late, a claim no other source repeats. Weight tracks the versions: the English Wikipedia table gives 628 g for the SMC Takumar, Ricoh 590 g for the SMC Pentax 67.

What reviewers agree on is the wide-open rendering. Sasha Krasnov, Peter Jeffrey and Peter Stout all describe the f/2.4 look in large-format terms; Krasnov calls the background blur smoother than the 90 or 165 with a faint swirl, and says that stopped down to f/8 or f/11 the 105 draws much like the 90mm, so the reasons to own it are the two stops at the top. Ken’s test of an SMC Pentax 67 example on a 102-megapixel GFX 100S found it luminous with a soft edge roll-off wide open and even across the frame by f/5.6 to f/8. The disagreement is over the cult: Mean Bear Media, shooting a Super-Takumar, finds it as sharp as the other 67 lenses and no sharper, and says the reputation is not a reason to buy the whole system, while Jo Geier and the 67 guides call it the reason most people do. The flare is the one trait every review mentions: shot into the sun wide open, the lens draws an orange-red orb that David Rose has built a whole technique around and that Patrick Medd admits he has not yet mastered.

Buying one is mostly a matter of glass condition. Check a Takumar for yellowing against a white sheet, and for the balsam separation and fungus Armstrong lists; a yellowed thoriated element can be cleared with weeks of ultraviolet exposure but it will not stay clear for ever. Haze between the elements is the other common fault on lenses this old, and it costs contrast before it costs sharpness. All four versions fit every 6×7, 67 and 67II body on the inner bayonet, so the choice is between a cheap Takumar with the same optics and a dearer SMC Pentax 67 that will not yellow; Armstrong’s verdict is that the newest version earns its premium for backlit work, and that a cared-for old lens beats an abused new one.

Left open by the sources consulted here: any launch price in yen or dollars, the year the SMC TAKUMAR engraving replaced the spelled-out one on this focal length, the end date of any version, the designer, and any confirmation of the two coating casts within the SMC Pentax 67 lens. The PentaxForums lens-database entry could not be read at the time of writing.

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This history is AI-written, from the sources listed at the foot of the page. Where the record is silent it says so rather than filling the gap — but no human wrote these sentences.

Example photos

Sample photo taken with the Takumar / SMC Pentax 67 105mm f/2.4
Sankt Hans bonfire, Charlottenlund Fort — Pentax 6×7, 105mm f/2.4 at f/2.4, 1/60, CineStill 800 (Kristoffer Trolle) — Kristoffer Trolle from Copenhagen, Denmark, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0)
Sample photo taken with the Takumar / SMC Pentax 67 105mm f/2.4
Winter, Västerbron and Kristineberg, Stockholm — Pentax 6×7, Takumar 105mm f/2.4, ISO 400 (One Trick Pony) — One Trick Pony from Stockholm, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Sample photo taken with the Takumar / SMC Pentax 67 105mm f/2.4
Stockholm City Hall — Pentax 6×7, Takumar 105mm f/2.4, ISO 400 (One Trick Pony) — One Trick Pony from Stockholm, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Sample photo wanted — shot with a Takumar / SMC Pentax 67 105mm f/2.4? We'd love to feature it (with credit).

Live listings

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