{"product_id":"pentax-smc-takumar-135mm-f-3-5-seduces","title":"Pentax SMC Takumar 135mm f\/3.5","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWHAT CONDITION THE CONDITION IS IN: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e88-Day Confirmed Operation Warranty. Stellar shape, this lens doesn't look like it has had very much use at all. The glass is clear, focus is smooth and the f-stops are crisp. Comes with the original lens caps, hood and case. The design, performance, and story of this lens wait below like a carefully arranged tea ceremony. When you're ready, scroll down. Or pause here a moment longer. All things reveal themselves in their proper time.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAh yes, 135mm. The focal length that exists because someone had to fill the gap between “perfectly adequate” and “why didn’t I just rent the good glass?” It’s inherited from an uncle with abandoned ambitions or discovered at an estate sale beside yellowed National Geographics and the ghost of a darkroom. The Pentax SMC Takumar 135mm f\/3.5 of the early 1970s knows this about itself. Built for the M42 mount, it arrived without delusions of stardom and made peace with that on the factory floor. It’s content to be solid, competent, and quietly sure of its place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis lens earned its modest reputation the hard way. Excellent optics, all metal construction, and a focus throw so long and smooth you could achieve enlightenment somewhere near minimum focus. It’s compact for a telephoto and purposeful in the hand. It reflects Pentax engineering at its most restrained. Designed by people who believed tools should last and didn’t see any reason to shout about it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy the way “Takumar” isn’t a name dreamt up over a three sake lunch. It honours Takuma Kajiwara, a painter and photographer of the pictorialist era, whose brother Kumao founded Asahi Optical in 1919 and fused art and engineering into a single, sensible idea. The 135mm f\/3.5 carries that legacy without ceremony. It’s not the lens you reach for first, or even third. But when 85mm feels too intimate and \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e200mm feels like admitting you've given up on human connection entirely, it reminds you that photography lives somewhere between intention and restraint. Even at 135mm. Especially at 135mm.\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(179, 179, 179);\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pentax","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47168994607291,"sku":"PEN-TAK-LNS-135-3.5-M42-GD-100008","price":78.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0645\/6960\/6331\/files\/PEN-TAK-LNS-135-3.5-M42-GD-100008-pentax-smc-takumar-135mm-f3.5-m42-mount-vintage-lens-used-0001-group.jpg?v=1762838909","url":"https:\/\/www.foxandtalbot.com\/products\/pentax-smc-takumar-135mm-f-3-5-seduces","provider":"Fox and Talbot Cameras","version":"1.0","type":"link"}