Tair-3
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| image by Yumi Abe (Image rights) |
The Tair-3 300mm 1:4.5 is a fast and heavy metal telephoto lens for SLRs with M42 lens screw-mount, made by KMZ. Its version Tair-3A has a design as common heavy M42 system lens with own tripod thread, delivered in a set with yellow and orange filter, hood, and quiver. Quite round iris diaphragm and well arranged lens elements make it a decent tele shooter, even with aperture wide open. Minimum focusing distance is 2.2 metres.
Other versions of the Tair-3 were optimzed for use in the Zenit Photosniper set, for example the Tair-3AS. Sniper versions usually had a better lens coating as advantage, but minimum focusing distance 3.3 metres as disadvantage.
There are two thumb wheels as connectors of the sniper gun to the lense´s sniper versions like the Tair-3S, a narrow one to fix the lens via its tripod thread, and a thick one with distance scale coupled to the lense´s focusing ring.
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| image by Ben Yurchenko (Image rights) |
Links
- discussion with imaging samples in German Pentaxians forum [1]
