Asahi Super-Multi-Coated Fish-eye-Takumar 6X7 35mm f/4.5

Asahi Super-Multi-Coated Fish-eye-Takumar 6X7 35mm f/4.5 | Round Glass Review

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@petermcginty3636 Ай бұрын

Thank you David, for all your videos during 2024. Your content is unique and presented in an entertaining way.🎉🎉🎉 Have a great Christmas and a fabulous 2025. Cheers, Peter.

@DavidHancock Ай бұрын

Thank you, Peter, and have a very merry Christmas!

@Olyvia.. Ай бұрын

using a fisheye for landscapes is a very funny strategy imo, lenses like this excel in portraits, especially artistic or fashion shoots, skating, biking and similar sports photography. especially considering that pentax was offering a 45mm (i think between 24 and 21mm in ff terms vs the ) rectilinear lens specifically for landscapes. many of the shots you showed probably would have been better taken in 645, since so much of the frame had to be cut off to hide the distortion.

@DavidHancock Ай бұрын

This lens distorts on full frame. :D It's interesting you'd go to this for a portrait shoot. I can see the appeal and use there, but I always shy away from ultrawides for people because they distort proportions too much.

@ZommBleed Ай бұрын

Did you drop it yet?

@DavidHancock Ай бұрын

@@ZommBleed I did fall carrying it on the last hike I took, but I sacrificed my arm to protect it.

@WesleyLeeYang Ай бұрын

@@DavidHancockgood thing we have 2 arms. I hope you kept the good one

@jw48335 Ай бұрын

This was fun😂 I had always wondered how sharp this beast could be. What in the world prompted this? Just wondering about the GAS justification, lol. I have both the 45-90mm and 100-200mm Bronica PE zooms if you're getting into reviewing uncommon ultra-heavy medium format lenses. You're welcome to borrow them with the body David. I even have the ETR-> Canon EF shift adapter 😂

@DavidHancock Ай бұрын

In terms of sharpness, this lens is really only okay and does not hold up on anything smaller than 6X7 without meaningful cropping. Some 6X7 lenses do hold up on smaller formats, though, and I have some APS-C tests I did a long time ago (I forgot to include them with this video) for the 55mm, 105mm, 135mm, and 200mm. Two or three of those are penciled in for next year. For shift work, this might be workable with a full frame camera. If that shift adapter allows 10mm of movement in each direction then it's possible to have something like 50mm X 50mm use of the image circle. That's still a bit of crop but would deliver a use for this lens. That said, there are better, modern fisheye lenses with a similar AoV native to each modern digital format and they all cost less than this lens.

@jw48335 Ай бұрын

@DavidHancock I've had quite a bit of fun with the 45-90 PE and EF shift adapter. There really weren't any newer reviews of that lens. Really I got the shift adapter to test the resolution, and I was shocked. Apparently the two zooms were released 1996 time frame and the optics are fantastic. At 45mm stopped down to F8 it beats the 40mm and 50mm primes 😁 The shift adapter allowed me to test out to the edges.

@krzysztofwaleska 28 күн бұрын

Beautiful and thoughtfully used lens - beautiful images. I love Arsat 30 f/3.5 fisheye on Kiev/Pentacon Six 6x6. Sometimes on full frame digital. Also Pentax fisheye 8mm on K100. They are beautiful to do full 360 deg. by 360 deg. images. Lately a little forgotten use of fisheye lenses.

@DavidHancock 28 күн бұрын

Thank you and those are great lenses, too!

@bish5196 Ай бұрын

Great review. If you ever get around to it, I would like to see a review on the 55mm f3.5. My favourite 6x7-67 lens. The 45 and 55 f4 have their objective improvements over 55 3.5, but in my experience it has some of the best rendering out of the 67 lens lineup. And like you metioned, the fisheye seems to work best with b & w film, Ive had the same results with most of the super-(takumar)lenses suited more for black and white, with the smc lenses having better outcomes with colour.

@DavidHancock Ай бұрын

@@bish5196 the 55 3.5 well be in 2026, I think. It's an amazing lens and I completely agree about the rendering, which seems cinematic in all the best ways to me. I think I like the 105 better than the 55, but it's a coin flip.

@amermeleitor Ай бұрын

Have you tried Pentacon 6 Kiev lenses? Here a guy sell some of those for really cheap in fb marketplace. I suppose that Pentacon 6 can be adapted to Sony

@DavidHancock Ай бұрын

Only the Zeiss 50mm f/4 Flektogon about a year ago. That was a Bronica conversion. I don't have a Pentacon 6 camera to shoot with.

@krzysztofwaleska 28 күн бұрын

@@DavidHancock Don't use Pentacon 6 without screwdriver in your hand. But good piece of 6 always rocks. 6x6cm is incredible!