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Tair-3S 300mm f/4.5 Foto Snaiper Lens Review

09/09/2006
Tair-3S  is supplied with the Zenit foto snaiper camera kit.  This specialty kit comes with the lens, camera, and a rifle stock mount with shoulder butt, pistol grip, and shutter release trigger. This version uses a knob under the barrel to focus (when used with the gun stock) and a spring-loaded diaphragm release activated by the trigger. I found this lens is quite interesting so I pickup one and shared my experience.
Tair-3S 300mm f/4.5 M42 Foto Snaiper
Vendor name Type name Product year
Tair 3S  
Focal min (mm) Focal max (mm) Focus min(cm)
300 300  
Aperture max Aperture min BaRREL LENGTH (mm)
4.5 22  
Elements Diaphragm action Weight (g)
  automatic  980
Filter size (mm) PUsh on diameter(mm) Angular field
 72    

tair3s
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Bit heavy lens with interesting focus mechanism and aperture settings, works very well with film camera and I found good performer on DSLR body too. Lens is single coated, this means result has less contrast than ideal.Easy to fix with any image manipulation application. Should good compromise because !!VERY SHARP!! , I suppose this lens a good buy even if it has less contrast than ideal.
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