Chinon 300mm F/5.6 Multi Coated
akaAuto-Alpa 300mm F/5.6 Multi-Coated
Super telephoto prime lens • Film era • Discontinued
- Announced:
- · No data
- Production status:
- ● Discontinued
- Country of design:
- · Japan
- Original name:
- · CHINON 1:5.6 f=300mm multi coated
- Class:
- · Slow full-frame super telephoto prime lens
- · Professional model
- System:
- · Chinon M42 (1973)
Abbreviations
| Multi Coated | Multi-layer anti-reflection coating is applied to the surfaces of lens elements. This anti-reflection coating increases light transmission, eliminates flare and ghosting, and maintains color consistence among all lens models. |
Specification
| Optical design: | |
| 35mm full frame | |
| 300mm | |
| F/5.6 | |
| 4 elements in 4 groups | |
| M42 [45.5mm] | |
| 8.2° (35mm full frame) | |
| Diaphragm mechanism: | |
Diaphragm type: | Automatic |
Aperture control: | Aperture ring (Manual settings only) |
| 6 (six) | |
| Focusing: | |
| 2.50m | |
| <No data> | |
Focusing modes: | Manual focus only |
Manual focus control: | Focusing ring |
| Physical characteristics: | |
| 640g | |
| ⌀70×168.5mm | |
| Accessories: | |
| Screw-type 58mm | |
| Built-in telescopic round | |
| <No data> |
Source of data
- "Chinon - The last word in quality lenses" booklet.
Manufacturer description
This ultra-compact model is the world's lightest 300mm lens, weighing on the average the same as most 200mm lenses. A useful tool for creating dynamic images because of the large magnification, shallow depth-of-field, and compression of the foreground and background which are inherent qualities of a 300mm lens.
From the editor
Made by Tamron. Optically, the lens is the same as the [Auto] Tamron-F 300/5.6.
The lens was also produced for the Alpa Si 2000 35mm SLR camera under the name MULTI-COATED AUTO-ALPA 1:5.6/300mm FOR ALPA SWISS.