A lens with specifications like this would cost hundreds of dollars if it had autofocus and currentday lens coating. If you are going to spend something it is better to wait and get something that can be used wide open than settle for mediocre and and up selling then spending more money later, imo. My email is my first name at a domain that corresponds to my full name. The 100mm lens has a flow that im sure i will correct it in one way or another someday. Then as is our way, i pointed it up at the seven sisters and using 20 sec subs got 5 minutes worth of subs. Manufactured at tokina factory serial number starts with 37. Well laurence, if you ask me id say i got way too much free time i dont know about the internal lens design, bu the exterior looks very close to vivitar 5mm f2. Fall in love with prime and manual focus recently after my dad gave his nikon 28mm f2. Camera manuals and free digital camera pdf instructions. Please refer back to the main page for an overview of these lenses. My only critism of it, as i remember, was the focusing was in the opposite the nikkor lenses.
It is in excellent condition and he threw in the caps. Please login or register to view links the lens arrived on monday and i have done some tests with it. Vintage lenses for astro vivitar 5mm 5 minute pleiades test posted in beginning and intermediate imaging. Dont know much about the hanimar, but the vivitar was a decent lens provided if you knew how to use it. There are 2 versions of the vivitar the older one has a 55mm thread and is marked around the inside of the lens bezel as the normal way, the 2nd has a 52mm thread and its marked around the outside of the lens. Top 9 classic lenses every collector should own contrastly. Its a prime lens made by tokina for vivitar, 5mm f2. Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. If you have better photos or can fill in missing info, please contact me. It renders good at all apertures and have a nice bokeh. It belongs to a group of lenses marketed during the same time known to the collectors as the bright band family. At f8 the vivitar has excellent resolution, better than pentax m 5mm f3,5 which i had for a while but the surprise is the very good. Dec 18, 2019 vintage lenses for astro vivitar 5mm 5 minute pleiades test posted in beginning and intermediate imaging. I received my steinheil munchen auto d quinar 5mm 2.
I bought this vivitar 5mm f2, 8 55mm filter thread, not the close focusing variant komine made in kmount and tested it against some steep competiton, tamron 90mm dg f2, 8 macro and pentax fa 200mm f2, 8. Both good lenses and the 85mm is my go to lens for portraits. Vintage lenses for astro vivitar 5mm 5 minute pleiades. I believe the lens was manufactured by komine with serial no. Do a research on what you can find about this lens. Find the user manual you need for your camera and more at manualsonline. Conclusion one great little lens with nice image quality. The lens had a great reputation back in those days for sharp, contrasty and ability to focus close. It has a strong personality and many different facets. I recently acquired this gem and i am still in the early stages of the learning curve in its use. Exposure softwares latest exposure x5 app is a surprisingly fast, featurepacked and affordable alternative to adobes lightroom with no subscription required. Mark, your note reminded me of a couple of vivitar lenses i had tucked away, dug them out to peek. I think it has an ai mount, but i wont know until i get the lens in my hands hopefully it is, then i wont need to worry about metering. I bought this lens in order to replace my korean made pracktica 5mm f2.
Like vitaliy says, the vivitar is a black onyx work of art, with a liquid mechanical precision you have to feel to believe. I had bought this lens quite a few years ago from expecting a generic 5mm f2. This family of lenses is welldocumented in the book, the vivitar guide, by john c. It doesnt have the same build quality as my olympus 28mm f3. I was looking for a portrait lens, but someone local is selling this vivitar 28mm 1. Feb 03, 2014 flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Where photos arent credited they were sourced from the net, generally auction sites. It is a member of vivitars komine diamond rubber ring family family of lenses. See my reply in your other thread, fungus doesnt matter unless theres a lot of it.
With only one exception, the compatible t system family consisted of prime lenses, including mostly long telephoto lenses. Vivitar spectacular design and highperforming sound. I was at a local camera shop yesterday, digging through their junk bins, when i came across the subject lens, in nikon mount, no less. I have a vivitar tripod and i like it a lot and it was cheap yet has the features of an expensive tripod. It is known that this lens was manufactured by a few makers and can be identified by their serial numbers. Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world, securely and privately show content to your friends and family, or blog the photos and videos you take with a cameraphone. Vivitar take your picnic to the next level with stereo sound and wireless range. Please feel free to add your pictures taken with this lens to this thread. I dont know about the internal lens design, bu the exterior looks very close to vivitar 5mm f2. I was absently turning the focusing collar as i was looking at other items and happened to. It is sharp on par with my tamron adaptall2 5mm f2. Ltd, japan for vivitar, late 70s, early 80s mount m42 pentaxpraktica screw focal length 35mm aperture range f2.
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