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

TAIR 30mm f4.5 lens

Sorry there have been no posts of late, with the weather being so wet, then my only long lens breaking beyond repair it hasnt been a few good weeks. MORE PILL,S
On a brighter note does anyone have any info on the Tair 300mm f4.5 lens as used on the old photo sniper system, I will be using said lens with my sony a 200 via an adapter same as the optomax that just broke.
I knew there was something wrong with the old optomax, when I uploaded shots taken on the 11/01/2012 all were flat no sharpness at all - checked out the camera with my 28-80 everything fine ? after a close look at the 300mm I could see that the focusing mech was skewed but still worked - so I removed the front element (easy job) and the focusing mech fell out in four bits, oops there should have been only three - looked like it had been repaird before. Ah well cant complain as I got it for free.
 I will post new photographs soon