Long long time ago (I think sometime in the 80’s), a very good friend of our family gave me a very expensive (at the time) present - a “photo rifle” (as it was called back then). I think I was in high school when I got it and really, I wasn’t that much into photography. I played with it for a few months, found 300mm lens being quite inconvenient for taking landscape pictures (which was pretty much all I was doing with a camera back then) and put it away for many many years.

This time I dug it out of the “family closet” and took a closer look at the “wonder of Soviet engineering”. The camera was severely damaged (probably due to the multiple moves we made over the time), the lens itself was very dusty, and some of the metal parts of the “rifle” began to rust.

Overall the setup looks quite cool, I must admit :) However, considering this lens has no CPU, starts with aperture 4 (I think), and would require some sort of a converter to fit my D70, I decided that I don’t want this monster - it is a no match for my 70-200 f/2.8 VR anyways :-) So, I placed “for sale” ad on a local forum, got a couple of offers, and a week later sold it for $30. I’m glad it’ll serve somebody else, instead of collecting dust in our closet. The money went toward a new electric saw for my dad, who’s now building a family cabin with his own hands.

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