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Gear Talk => Lens Talk => Topic started by: Fons Baerken on January 25, 2016, 17:50:55

Title: Tair 11-A
Post by: Fons Baerken on January 25, 2016, 17:50:55

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1692/24581114636_a7cfa120bb_b.jpg)

D800 Tair 11a 135mm f/2.8 tripod sb910
this copy has a 42 screw mount, and no infinity with a regular adapter

Title: Re: Tair 11-A
Post by: Fons Baerken on January 26, 2016, 14:13:04

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1675/24329626740_53719419e5_o.jpg)

Title: Re: Tair 11-A
Post by: charlie on January 27, 2016, 17:46:08

Fons I like the color and lighting of the first image.
Appears to be a capable lens the Tair 11-A is.
I've never heard of Tair lenses before now.

Title: Re: Tair 11-A
Post by: Bjørn Rørslett on January 27, 2016, 18:30:38

The Tair brand was Russian I believe. Quite popular in the UK in the early 70's if I remember correctly. There was a 'Sniper' 300mm Tair mounted on a sliding gun stock  that you would be arrested immediately for carrying today.

Title: Re: Tair 11-A
Post by: pluton on January 27, 2016, 20:38:18

I had one of the Tair 300/4.5 lenses (pre-multicoating, non-gunstock)); it was high resolution but low contrast on film.

Title: Re: Tair 11-A
Post by: Bjørn Rørslett on January 27, 2016, 20:43:03

The description "high resolution low contrast" actually applied to most Russian lenses of that vintage.

Title: Re: Tair 11-A
Post by: Jakov Minić on January 28, 2016, 02:37:06

Quote from: Bjørn Rørslett on January 27, 2016, 18:30:38

The Tair brand was Russian I believe. Quite popular in the UK in the early 70's if I remember correctly. There was a 'Sniper' 300mm Tair mounted on a sliding gun stock  that you would be arrested immediately for carrying today.

I have no clue what you meant by getting arrested :)

Title: Re: Tair 11-A
Post by: Dr Klaus Schmitt on January 29, 2016, 17:21:18

Well know gret performer Fons, and quite cheap.

Title: Re: Tair 11-A
Post by: Bjørn Rørslett on January 29, 2016, 18:10:37

Quote from: Jakov Minić on January 28, 2016, 02:37:06

I have no clue what you meant by getting arrested :)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/collection_of_cameras/6260624232/

With the paranoid attitude of today's police forces, not an item to wave around in public I'd say.

Title: Re: Tair 11-A
Post by: Tristin on January 29, 2016, 18:23:27

Did it really come with the pistol grip and trigger? Please tell me the trigger worked as a shutter release hahaha!

Title: Re: Tair 11-A
Post by: pluton on January 29, 2016, 19:11:03

Yes, usually there was a standard cable release running from the trigger to the camera's shutter release.

Title: Re: Tair 11-A
Post by: Seapy on January 29, 2016, 19:22:45

O have some vague recollections of a Novoflex? with a pistol grip you used the trigger to focus.  Not sure how well that worked.

Title: Re: Tair 11-A
Post by: Bjørn Rørslett on January 29, 2016, 19:35:39

Difficult now to tell who copied who. The Novoflex 400/5.6 was immensely popular as a birding outfit in the '60s. Perhaps the Russian systems were older.

The squeeze-focusing technique allowed for pretty rapid work, but hardly is a match for the better AF/AFS lenses and the approach is mainly of historical importance today.

Title: Re: Tair 11-A
Post by: Seapy on January 29, 2016, 20:36:58

Thats the one Bjørn,  I really fancied one for my Exata Varex but couldn't see the focus working well enough.

Title: Re: Tair 11-A
Post by: Fons Baerken on February 01, 2016, 14:51:38

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1443/24634380802_2ef1b41741_o.jpg)

Tair 11A 135/2.8

Title: Re: Tair 11-A
Post by: Akira on February 01, 2016, 16:15:24

Quote from: Bjørn Rørslett on January 27, 2016, 18:30:38

There was a 'Sniper' 300mm Tair mounted on a sliding gun stock  that you would be arrested immediately for carrying today.

I've seen some in Japan, too.  The "Photosniper" kit came with the Zenith body in the dedicated atache case looking like a Russian Zero Halliburton.