Tair is the name of a series of

prime lens In film and photography, a prime lens is a fixed focal length photographic lens (as opposed to a zoom lens), typically with a maximum aperture from f2.8 to f1.2. The term can also mean the primary lens in a combination lens system. Confusion be ...

es manufactured by KMZ in the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

Tair 11

The Tair 11 series have a

focal length The focal length of an optical system is a measure of how strongly the system converges or diverges light; it is the inverse of the system's optical power. A positive focal length indicates that a system converges light, while a negative foca ...

of 133mm with a maximum aperture of f/2.8. Variants include the Tair 11A for the

M42 lens mount The M42 lens mount is a screw thread mounting standard for attaching lenses to 35 mm cameras, primarily single-lens reflex models. It is more accurately known as the M42 × 1 mm standard, which means that it is a metric screw thread of ...

and the original Tair 11 for the

M39 lens mount The M39 lens mount is a screw thread mounting system for attaching lenses to 35 mm cameras, primarily rangefinder (RF) Leicas. It is also the most common mount for Photographic enlarger lenses. True Leica Thread-Mount (LTM) is 39 mm in d ...

. The Tair 11-T is a "Technical" or "Television" for cinecamera or surveillance. The Tair 11-2 is an M42 lens with a focal length of 133mm. A unique feature of the Tair 11 series is the twenty aperture blades, far more than many modern lenses.

Tair 3

The Tair 3 is a 300mm f/4.5

telephoto A telephoto lens, in photography and cinematography, is a specific type of a long-focus lens in which the physical length of the lens is shorter than the focal length. This is achieved by incorporating a special lens group known as a ''telephoto ...

lens. Like many other Tair lenses, it uses the M39/

. Although these are mostly black coloured lenses, there exist some very rare light grey ones manufactured earlier. The lens enjoys a reputation of having excellent image quality

Tair 33

The Tair 33 is a 300mm f/4.5

lens for Kiev 88 (V Mount, Tair-33V) and Pentacon Six or Kiev 60 system (P6 Mount, Tair-33B).

References

External links

In Russian
Tair-3 page

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