Tokina SZ Super Tele 500mm F8 Reflex MF is a 500mm Super Tele lens that adopts a catadioptric type optical design with a constant F8 aperture. The lens offers a compact alternative to standard tele photo lenses as more and more photographers are looking for easy-to-carry gear. Keeping in mind active travel photographers that seek outdoor landscape, wild nature or birds, the 500mm F8 Reflex MF is designed as a compact and lightweight mirror lens - a type of lens to be rediscovered in this new era of also compact but high-tech mirrorless cameras. The Tokina SZ Super Tele 500mm F8 Reflex MF adopts a Fuji X standard (pitch 0.75mm, thread 42mm) that allows the lens to be attached to any camera by using mount adapters.Tokina SZ Super Tele 500mm F8 Reflex MF is suitable for travel photography since the lens is compact and lightweight, and yet will help you to capture far objects that cannot be reached by standard zoom lenses. This lens can serve you best in different photographic genres, like landscape, people, street snap, macro, wild nature and even sports!Optical DesignLong 500mm focal length of Tokina SZ Super Tele 500mm F8 Reflex MF while being such a compact and lightweight is realized thanks to catadioptric optical design.Mirror lenses are tele photo lenses that incorporate a combination of lenses and mirrors to reflect light back and forth between the ends of the lens. This structure folds the light cutting the tube length in half. In this