NICE THINGS DO HAPPEN

Well nice things do happen! - having broken my optomax 300mm lens on Thursday, I set about looking for a replacement on ebay. I had ordered a 2x teleconverter to fit the old lens (M42 thread) on Monday morning so I was stuck with having to find an old m42 Reliable lens that would stand up to the punishment that I would give it.
     If I wanted something old, cheep and reliable" -  only one thing to do - buy east German or Russian, so I trolled through the listings  and found 2 German zeiss lenses both out of my reach, lots of russian lenses but only  one 300mm a TAIR f 4.5, so I checked the internet and found that this lens was part of the old photo sniper system that zenith produced until the mid eighties. I waited until the wife  got home-asked- before buying the lens  ( thought it would be best to check first!) and bought it at around 11pm. Friday morning I had an email from seller saying that he would post item when he had chance - it arrived at 9.30 this morning!!!!!!
 So out I went - down to the local duckpond to test the new toy. First impressions ITS BLOODY HEAVY & rather strange to use ? I will tell you about that in another post as its now 8.0 pm and time for my pills.
Check out the photo,s - remember that the lens was probably built in the 60s and please leave comments whether or not you like them. Bye for now Brian.
ALL PHOTOS ON THIS PAGE TAKEN WITH THE TAIR 300MM LENS

Tair 300mm lens iso 200 1/200

Tair 300mm lens f8 iso 200 1/200