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Fons Baerken

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Tair 11-A
« on: January 25, 2016, 17:50:55 »


D800 Tair 11a 135mm f/2.8 tripod sb910
this copy has a 42 screw mount, and no infinity with a regular adapter
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Re: Tair 11-A
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2016, 14:13:04 »
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Re: Tair 11-A
« Reply #2 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.
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Re: Tair 11-A
« Reply #3 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.
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Re: Tair 11-A
« Reply #4 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.
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Re: Tair 11-A
« Reply #5 on: January 27, 2016, 20:43:03 »
The description "high resolution low contrast" actually applied to most Russian lenses of that vintage.
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Re: Tair 11-A
« Reply #6 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 :)
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Re: Tair 11-A
« Reply #7 on: January 29, 2016, 17:21:18 »
Well know gret performer Fons, and quite cheap.
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Re: Tair 11-A
« Reply #8 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.
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Re: Tair 11-A
« Reply #9 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!
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Re: Tair 11-A
« Reply #10 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.
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Re: Tair 11-A
« Reply #11 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.
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Re: Tair 11-A
« Reply #12 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.
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Re: Tair 11-A
« Reply #13 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.
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Re: Tair 11-A
« Reply #14 on: February 01, 2016, 14:51:38 »


Tair 11A 135/2.8
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