Purchased a Pentacon 135mm F2.8 (the 16 blade version) about a year ago and apart from giving it a clean, I don't think I've used it until today.
A couple of photos from the garden this morning. Nothing special other than I quite like the colours and "feel" of the images.
I could have improved them by doing a bit more in LR but on both photos, I've merely placed the sharpen slider to +20, clarity to +10 and curve to medium contrast. Not cropped because the real point is to show how the lens plays with my newly acquired Zhonghyi Lens Turbo II and the difference in field of view etc.
Almost forgot, the full set up here is Pentacon 135 ( M42), screwed into a Minolta P adapter (M42 to MD/SR), then into the LTII, then mounted on a G80, Shutter 1/640, ISO around 1000. Both f2.8 (so that didn't help sharpness), The first one with dumb adapter, the second with focal reducer. No obvious colour shifts, etc as far as I can see.
Not saying that i couldn't have achieved much better results with my 70-300L, but for £14, I'm happy.
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