lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

You have some nice items between the two sets of images. You should show us the fronts with the front caps off so we can read what the lenses are. Virtually all lenses are labelled there. You have a real Pentax Takumar 50mm or 55mm f/1.8 there, and a Pentax Takumar 135mm f/3.5 lens.

Kingman

I still have my Pentax Spotmatic and Spotmatic II! BTW: I also still have my Tele Astranar lens. It performed well outside in bright sunlight at f8 and higher. BTW: in 1970, it was a $39.95. The Pentax Spotmatic with a Takumar 1.4 cost me $239.00 in the fall of 1968. These bodies were the most popular at the time and typically sold with the f1.8 for (as I recall $40 less). Thanks for bringing me down memory lane. All my Pentax bodies are still fully functional expect for the ESII: SP, SPII, ESII, ME Super (3), istD2, K20D, K3, K1.

AndyH Loc: Massachusetts and New Hampshire

You also have an older Polaroid camera and the remarkable Olympus Pen F. Neither worth a lot of money, but still collectible.

I second the suggestion of photographing all of the lenses from the front, with the lens caps and filters removed. That’s the only way to positively identify them.

Some might have value, some might be treasures for a collector here, or even on eBay. They all look immaculate and if you don’t decide to use them they deserve good homes.

I’m sure you’ll get honest feedback here.

Andy

Blurryeyed Loc: NC Mountains.

Showing us the face of the lens would certainly help in identification, you seem to have a Takumar 55mm f/1.8, a Takumar 135mm f/3.5 both lenses are capable of excellent quality, the 35mm f/2.3 is definitely a collector's item, you have what looks like a long focal length preset lens, presets are really cool, I have a 200mm preset that has 18 curved aperture blades and as the aperture closes it makes a perfect circle, excellent bokeh monster. The lens face should denote the focal length, the smallest aperture, and the manufacturer.

Personally I love these old lenses and have collected them for years.

The pic is not even my whole collection. Some of those old lenses are really valuable some not so much but the 35mm you have is definitely a collector's item and the wide angle you have shown might be, I am not certain what lens that is because you have not shown the front of the lens. The 55mm and 135mm are not worth a lot of money because they are very common but like I said earlier, once you learn how to focus them they are capable of excellent image quality.

One thing that is not being talked about in this thread is that as you can see on the pic I posted of my 2.3/35 it was mounted to a Canon EOS digital body, the adapters cost somewhere between $5 and $10 on ebay. I don't know what you shoot digitally or if you do shoot a DSLR, but those lenses can be used on several different DSLRs. The reason my lens was mounted to that really old body is that I generally only shoot with Canon Full Frames and that particular lens as well as a few other Takumars, mostly wide angles, conflict with the mirror when set to infinity focus so they can only be used on Crop bodies.

anotherview Loc: California

Just another option: Keep one or a few of these old pieces of photography gear from the film era, as conversation pieces. Display under glass on a shelf where visible to a visitor.

Dispose of the rest in a rational way, by selling, by giving to a worthy other, or by donating to, say, a high school that offers a photography class with at least a bow to film photography.

But I sense that as the era of film photography recedes, in favor of digital photography, less and less popular interest will go toward film, now obsolescent while becoming a niche technique.

Quinn 4

I had a Pentax Spotmatic, it use M42 lenses. Take it out and use it.

Kuzano

The spotmatic camera has some value as well as all the Takumar lenses (Pentax). It looks like you may have some reasonably valuable Takumar lenses that could use a thread mount adapter to use on digital camera's. If you have posted pics of the lenses without lens caps so we could tell what the brands were and what the aperture ranges are, we could be much more helpful. We are deprived of info to assist by not seing this information.

What do you want to do with this equipment? keep it in honor of your father? Sell it? Shoot it?

It looks operable. Spotmatics here/are popular with the film crowd. Takumars have value. Again, the values are determinable given more of the information on front of the lenses, etc. I sell a lot of film equipment and the market is rising. Digital has NOT truly replaced film, and more film is being shot every day, as my sales experience does show!

Some Spotmatics from Pentax were branded for Honeywell and sold under the Honeywell umbrella. If that is an H on the prism of yours, I suspect it is a Honeywell product, identical otherwise to the Pentax Spotmatic, slightly harder to find, but operable in the same manual operation.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

The camera itself is worth keeping.
The other lenses are not looking like the best quality but fun conversation pieces.
I personally would keep them for demonstration pieces and conversation.

lsaguy Loc: Udall, KS, USA

You can find ratings and relative prices for your lenses on the Pentax forum;
https://www.pentaxforums.com/lensreviews/
You may find that your father owned some fine lenses. I search out lenses like these at thrift stores and pawn shops. Usually selling for $20 or so, they give me the chance to own lenses that I have no hope of owning in the latest and greatest. At least try them out, if nothing else you'll be able to see if a certain lens fits the photography you do and then find that focal length in the newer auto all types.

Rick

agillot

the long lens could be a T MOUNT , will fit anything with the right adapter [ $ 5 ]. good for birds .

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

You can look them up on eBay and see what they have sold for. Click "Sold items" down the left column.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313.TR12.TRC2.A0.H0.Xpentax+spotmatic.TRS0&_nkw=pentax+spotmatic&_sacat=0

amfoto1 Loc: San Jose, Calif. USA

Definitely worth a try! T-mounts are available for almost any modern DSLR or mirrorless camera system and they are super easy to swap out. (Google for info)

The Soligor lens shown in another image might also be a T-mount.

Depending upon what modern digital camera system the original poster has, those Pentax lenses also MIGHT be usable on it. There are simple, inexpensive adapters that allow Pentax M42 lenses to be used on Canon and Sony DLSRs or most mirrorless systems. I don't think they can be adapted for use on Nikon DSLRs (optics would be needed in the adapter, and in reasonably affordable adapters that would likely ruin the lens' image quality).

I wouldn't be too quick to sell any of it. It's not like you'll get rich doing so. And it might be "worth more" to keep for the memories and to enjoy using yourself.

James R. Kyle Loc: Saint Louis, Missouri (A Suburb of Ferguson)

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Hello, David....

Perhaps - If you wish to make use of these lenses - You might consider buying an Adapter to fit the Lenses and your make of camera.

I did this with my Minolta lenses to fit on my Canon cameras. Works very well.

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chrisg-optical Loc: New York, NY

I think Kodak Ektachrome 100 film is making a comeback soon, and of course there are many fine B&W films still available. eBay has lots of color and B&W film too just watch expiration dates!

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None of the lenses are worth bothering to use.
The Pentax brand stuff would be great to give
to a school program, the other lenses go into
the dumpster.

If you wanna do film as a learning experience,
forget it. There is nothing useful to learn. But if
wanna do it for fun like home cooking, keep the
little Pen-F. It's a fully manual camera, and has
all the basic controls ... and gets 75 frames per
roll of std 35mm film ! If it needs a clean & lube
on the shutter it is actually quite worth it. And if
you don't intend to use it, see that it gets a new
home. Most of that line were 1-button AE-only
and the the manual version is rare and useful. I
had one until film days were over. Loved it.

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PS if shooting the Pen-F for fun.

Do not buy a light meter. Find some exposure
charts on line, simple ones with pictures, and
print them out to carry with you.

If you can't master simple charts, you can't
understand light meter. When you do master
the charts, you won't need a light meter ...
except for tricky night time or dim interior
scenes, and you should use digital for that ;-)


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