Super Paragon — budget 75-200mm f/4.5 push-pull zoom, sold in multiple SLR mounts
Super Paragon was a third-party lens brand of the 1970s and 1980s, distributed through photographic mail-order catalogues and rebadging optics from Japanese OEM lens houses. The 75-200mm f/4.5 was a one-touch push-pull telephoto zoom typical of the budget-brand offerings of the period.
The zoom uses a one-touch push-pull mechanism combining focus and zoom in a single collar, a common design for consumer telephoto zooms of the era. It was produced across multiple SLR mounts including M42, Pentax K, Canon FD, Minolta MD and Olympus OM to suit whichever body a customer already owned.
Optical performance is soft at the long end wide open, sharpening by two stops down, and typical of budget zooms of the period rather than the contemporary Vivitar Series 1 or first-party equivalents. Colour rendering is muted compared with multi-coated lenses of the same years.
Examples turn up occasionally in secondhand camera boxes and job lots, usually priced as low-cost telephoto options rather than collectible glass. Buyers should check the zoom and focus collar for smooth, unstiff travel and confirm the aperture blades are free of oil residue.