Rainer Strzolka

500 millimeters Rainer Strzolka

Mirror lenses have gone a little out of fashion. These optics are a lot of fun: they are small, light, inexpensive. These lenses are hardly being built anymore, but the range of used goods is huge. Well-preserved specimens can be found for around $ 80. Caution should be exercised particularly with lenses from the former Soviet Union, the famous "Russian barrel" Maksutov MC MTO-11CA, for example, is more notorious than good. The specimen scatter is huge. You can use them to take photos from a distance without being noticed. If you know them, you can take advantage of their optical disadvantages and achieve surprising image results with them. The following illustrated book should make you want to deal with these exotic species. They make it possible to tell picture stories from afar, as other technologies hardly make it possible.