Asahi Pentax M42 Links
Here's a list of helpful links I've found while researching Pentax M42 lenses roughly organized by topic.
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Asahi Pentax Manufacturer History:
Lens Specifications:
- Guide to Pentax K-mount lenses at Pentaxians.eu(Great guide, served as a primary source of data for the K-mount table on this site)
- M42-Mount Lenses at PentaxForums(A highly-active Pentax forum with extensive lens profiles including specs and user-submitted reviews. A highly-recommended resource for all Pentax equipment)
- Lens Profiles at Asahi Optical Historical Club
- Lens Table compiled by Peter Jonkman
- Lens Writeups at kajiwara.weebly.com(Text is in French, but Google Translate can help here)
- M42 Lens DB(Profles for a large collection of M42 & M37 screwmount lenses made by a variety of manufacturers. Asahi Pentax lenses can be found by filtering by vendor: 'Asahi Optical Co.')
- List of some M42 & M37 lenses at takumar.weebly.com
M42-Mount Lens History:
- "The Evolution of the Pentax M42 mount" at PentaxForums
- M42 Lens History and Specs(Features history of M42 mount along with spec charts for some Takumar & Auto-Takumar lenses)
Lens Reviews:
Here's some good sites I've found with reviews and lens tests of { title } lenses.- M42-Mount Lenses at PentaxForums.com(The above link is repeated here with good reason: Pentax Forums is the best resource I've found for reviews and info on Pentax M42 lenses)
- Lens Reviews at Casual Photophile(High quality articles but unfortunately only covering a few Pentax lenses. Highly recommended also for their camera reviews and other articles)
Lens Repair Guides & Manuals:
Note: I've often found YouTube to be a good source of disassembly/repair videos. If in doubt, try searching there for your lens.- PDF Manuals at Pentax-Manuals.com(Contains user manuals and pamphlets for various Pentax cameras and lenses. (PDFs are password-protected, the password for all PDFs is 'Pentax')
Additional Asahi Pentax M42 Resources:
Additional pages which didn't fit into the above topics.- The Manual Focus Lenses forum at MFLenses.com(This is the most active forum I've found on the subject of MF lenses of all manufacturers. A good resource)