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Tamron Adaptall 300mm f5.6

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The latest car boot find, bought for a pound, which I thought fair, if only to get the adapter!. Retrospectively referred to as adaptall 1 to make it easier to distinguish between the lens series, the most obvious difference is the grip texture. Attached to the Pentax KM, as they are roughly contemporary, and it had a K-mount adapter on it!
Oddly, the lens doesn't focus anywhere near the infinity mark on the scale, but some quick snaps on the E-500 seem to be achieving infinity focus! Possibly someone has had it apart and misassembled it, but I would have thought that would have prevented it from focusing to infinity altogether. Although I have come across some lenses where the distance scale is rather "approximate" (mainly zooms), I wouldn't have thought a Tamron prime would have escaped from the factory like that.....
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3264x2448px 4.97 MB
Make
OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP.
Model
E-500
Shutter Speed
1/125 second
Aperture
F/10.0
Focal Length
43 mm
ISO Speed
400
Date Taken
Nov 30, 1999, 12:00:00 AM
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I don't know how you still manage to find stuff like this at the car booty, but it impresses me when you do! So are you going to let me try out the 300mm lens? Then I can get lovely pictures of the starry sky! :D