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Takumar / SMC Pentax 67 200mm f/4

Pentax · Pentax 67 · 1969

single source, unconfirmed

Also known as: Pentax 67 200mm f/4 · Pentax 6x7 200mm f4 · Takumar 6x7 200mm f/4 · Super-Takumar 6x7 200mm f/4 · Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 6x7 200mm f/4 · SMC Takumar 6x7 200mm f4 · SMC TAKUMAR/6x7 1:4/200 · SMC PENTAX 67 200mm F4 · smc PENTAX 67 200mmF4 · SMC Pentax 67 200/4 · ペンタックス 67 200mm f4 · スーパータクマー 6×7 200mm F4 · SMCタクマー 6×7 200mm F4 · SMCペンタックス67 200mmF4

Variants & identification

Variant Mount Years Serial ranges Production
Super-Takumar/6×7 200mm f/4 (1969, single-coated) · 4 elements in 4 groups (Asahi Pentax catalogue of September 1970, via ja Wikipedia; en Wikipedia) Pentax 67 1969–1971 — —
Super-Multi-Coated / SMC Takumar/6×7 200mm f/4 (1971) Pentax 67 1971 — —
SMC Pentax 67 200mm f/4 (new 5-element computation, by 1990) · 5 elements in 4 groups, closest focus 1.5 m, 77 mm filter (Ricoh Imaging; Pentax 67/645 catalogue of August 1990 via ja Wikipedia) Pentax 67 1989 — —
  1. The family fields (4/4, f/22, 2.5 m, 67 mm, 91.5 × 120 mm, 900 g) describe the Takumar lens of 1969–1980s, from the Asahi Pentax catalogues of September 1970 and January 1975 as cited by the Japanese Wikipedia lens list, and from the English Wikipedia table. The SMC Pentax 67 lens (5/4, f/32, 1.5 m, 77 mm, 92.5 × 135 mm, 795 g) is a new computation and its figures are in its variant row, from Ricoh Imaging's 67II page and catalogue.
  2. The 900 g weight and 91.5 × 120 mm dimensions of the Takumar rest on the English Wikipedia table alone; no maker document consulted gives them. Single source.
  3. Camera-wiki lists a 67 mm-filter 200mm f/4 in its SMC Pentax 6×7 group as well as the 77 mm lens in the SMC Pentax 67 group. No other source mentions a PENTAX-6x7-engraved 200; it is carried as a note on the Takumar variant rather than a row of its own.
  4. No blade count from any maker or reviewer read here; a lens database gives 8, on data it attributes to a Russian lens club, and it is not used.
  5. No launch price found. The only maker price is Ricoh Imaging's undated 67II-era Japanese list, ¥110,000 before tax with case.
How to tell them apart (expand)
  • Filter size is the fastest sort: 67 mm on every Takumar 200 (Super-Takumar, Super-Multi-Coated, SMC Takumar), 77 mm on the SMC Pentax 67
  • Minimum aperture confirms it: f/22 on the Takumar, f/32 on the SMC Pentax 67; closest focus 2.5 m against 1.5 m
  • Inner-bayonet lens on every version; the outer bayonet of the double mount is for 400 mm and longer (ja Wikipedia)
  • Not the Super-Takumar 200mm f/4 for M42 35 mm bodies, which shares the name and is a 58 mm-filter, 558 g lens (en Wikipedia); the 6×7 lens is engraved /6x7 and weighs close to a kilogram

Super-Takumar/6×7 200mm f/4 (1969, single-coated):

  • Front ring engraved Super-Takumar/6x7 1:4/200, no coating prefix; 67 mm filter; built-in hood
  • Asahi Pentax catalogue of September 1970: 4 groups / 4 elements, 67 mm attachment (ja Wikipedia)

Super-Multi-Coated / SMC Takumar/6×7 200mm f/4 (1971):

  • Ring reads Super-Multi-Coated TAKUMAR/6x7 1:4/200, later SMC TAKUMAR/6x7; the shortening is undated in every source consulted
  • Asahi Pentax catalogue of January 1975: 4 groups / 4 elements, 2.5 m closest focus, 67 mm attachment (ja Wikipedia)
  • English Wikipedia table: f/4–22, 26°, 4e/4g, 2.50 m, 67 mm, 91.5 × 120 mm, 900 g
  • Camera-wiki also lists a 200mm f/4 with 67 mm filter in its SMC Pentax 6×7 group, which would be the same optics under a PENTAX-6x7 engraving; no other source mentions that engraving

SMC Pentax 67 200mm f/4 (new 5-element computation, by 1990):

  • Engraved SMC PENTAX 67 1:4 200mm; 77 mm filter where every Takumar 200 took 67 mm; f/32 minimum where the Takumar stops at f/22
  • Ricoh Imaging's 67II lens page: 4 groups / 5 elements, 25°, f/32, 1.5 m, 77 mm, 92.5 × 135 mm, 795 g, metal hood MH-RA77 (screw-in) sold separately, rear converters 1.4× and 2× usable
  • Listed in the Pentax 67/645 catalogue of August 1990 as 4群5枚, 1.5 m, φ77 (ja Wikipedia)

Specifications

Construction
4 elements / 4 groups
Aperture range
f/4–f/22
Min. focus
2.5 m
Dimensions
91.5 × 120 mm
Weight
900 g
Filter
67 mm
Years manufactured
1969
Country
Japan
Coating
Single-coated on the 1969 Super-Takumar; Super-Multi-Coating from 1971 and on the SMC Pentax 67 recomputation
Original price
¥110,000 before tax with case S110-160 for the SMC Pentax 67 version, on Ricoh Imaging's undated 67II-era Japanese list. No 1969 launch price found.

What reviewers say

Optical formula

No maker cross-section found for either computation: Ricoh Imaging's 67II pages give counts only, and the 1970, 1975 and 1990 Asahi catalogues cited by the Japanese Wikipedia list were not seen directly.

History

The 200mm f/4 has been in the Pentax 6×7 catalogue from the first outfit of 1969 to the last 67II list, but under that one name there are two lenses. The Takumar, in its Super-Takumar, Super-Multi-Coated and SMC Takumar engravings, is a 4-element, 4-group telephoto focusing to 2.5 m with a 67 mm filter and f/22 minimum, listed at 900 g and 91.5 × 120 mm in the English Wikipedia table; the Japanese Wikipedia list gives the same construction from Asahi’s September 1970 and January 1975 catalogues. The SMC Pentax 67 lens that Ricoh Imaging still lists is 5 elements in 4 groups, focuses to 1.5 m, takes a 77 mm filter, stops down to f/32, and weighs 795 g at 92.5 × 135 mm, with the MH-RA77 metal hood sold separately, at ¥110,000 before tax. It was already in the Pentax 67/645 catalogue of August 1990, so the recomputation dates from the body’s renaming of November 1989 or before; no source read here gives its launch.

The generations follow the system. The 1969 lens is single-coated and engraved Super-Takumar/6x7; from 1971 the seven-layer multicoating brought the Super-Multi-Coated TAKUMAR/6x7 ring, later shortened to SMC TAKUMAR/6x7 on a date no source gives for this focal length. Camera-wiki also lists a 67 mm-filter 200 in its SMC Pentax 6×7 group of the 1980s, which would be the Takumar optics under the PENTAX-6x7 engraving that the 45, 55, 90 and 165 wore before 1989; nothing else consulted mentions it. The SMC Pentax 67 version is the only optical change. Telling them apart takes no serial list: 67 mm and f/22 on the ring is the Takumar, 77 mm and f/32 is the new lens, and the new lens focuses a metre closer.

It is the least written-about of the three telephotos. Chris Chinnock calls it a fine lens that gets little use next to his 105 and is not sure it will stay; the Charleston guide calls its performance solid and its size reasonable for a 100 mm-equivalent; Steven Rasmussen’s contribution is that with technique it can be handheld at 1/60. The forum comparisons that praise the Takumar 200’s sharpness against Pentax’s 35 mm 200s could not be read for this entry, and neither could the PentaxForums database reviews, so the 200 has no detailed published assessment here from either version. Its practical case is price: it is the cheap way into a long lens on the system, and the SMC Pentax 67 version’s 1.5 m focus makes it a tighter head-and-shoulders lens than the Takumar’s 2.5 m allows.

Check the built-in hood on a Takumar slides without binding, the diaphragm closes fully and evenly, and the front element is free of the haze and cleaning marks a 900 g lens carried on a strap for fifty years collects. A Takumar 200 with a 67 mm filter is not an inferior copy of the current lens but an older design, and should be priced as one. Open here: a blade count for either version from a maker or a reviewer, the weight and dimensions of the Takumar from an Asahi document rather than Wikipedia, the launch year of the recomputation, whether a PENTAX-6x7-engraved 200 exists as camera-wiki implies, and any launch price.

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