28-90mm f 2.8-3.5 vivitar series 1 lens for pentax with front and rear caps. Serial number: 28339916. Lens in great working condition, aperture opens and closes. Simon Hawketts' Photo Blog. The serial number of my copy is 28612165 and the. Hello I have a Vivitar v2000 35mm and I bought a Vivitar Series 1 70-210. Manufacturer of cameras, lenses, flashes, and slide projectors. Mar 21, 2016 Digital Photography Review: All the latest digital camera reviews and digital imaging news. Lively discussion forums.

I personally buy from, and. I can't vouch for any other. Vivitar 70-210mm Series 1 © 2008 KenRockwell.com. All rights reserved. Vivitar VMC 70-210mm f/3.5 Series 1.. I get my goodies at, and. It helps me keep adding to this site when you get yours from those links, too.

Ecs Fsb800 Motherboard Drivers. Adorama might have them. March 2008 Best for: High optical quality in a very inexpensive or film manual focus tele zoom.

Optical Quality: Very Good. Ease-of-use: Fair: focus ring turns backwards and macro mode requires a gear shift.

Usefulness: Excellent, if you need a manual-focus tele. Introduction The Vivitar 70-210mm Series 1 is the classic of classics of third-party lenses. Like many Vivitar lenses, it was made for Vivitar by fourth parties, and its design varied over the years. Enigma Band Free Download. Apocryphal data suggests this version was made by Kino Precision (Kiron) in December, 1978.

The version seen here has always been the classic of these 70-210mm Series 1 to me, since its what my smart friends had back when I was a photo editor at a New York newspaper back in 1980-1984. (I was still trying to shoot sports with my fixed Nikkors.) It offers very high performance, and today sells used for next to nothing. Compatibility These are best used on manual-focus film cameras or cameras, like the. They work OK on, but there are much The 70-210mm Series 1 was made throughout quite a few years in several versions. The earliest ones were not, and won't do much of anything with most cameras. Avoid these, since newer ones cost no more used.

Get at least an AI version as shown here, which is identified by its two sets of duplicate numbers along the aperture ring. On the,,, and, use the 'Non-CPU Lens Data' menu option to get full matrix metering, EXIF data, and finder read-out of set aperture. It works great in aperture-preferred as well as manual modes on these cameras. If you want the EXIF to read the correct focal length as you zoom, assign as many memories as you like to the various focal lengths. For instance, set 70mm and f/3.5, 85mm and f/3.5, 105mm and f/3.5, 135mm and f/3.5 and 200mm and f/3.5. Set the function button to let you select among these settings as you zoom.

Exposure will be fine, even if you don't bother to change it to get the EXIF data correct as you zoom. The meters of cheaper digital ( and below) and cheaper film cameras ( and below) will not work with this lens, so you'll be on your own guessing exposure using the rear LCD or an external meter. It works perfectly every professional film camera (,,,,, ), and adds Matrix metering on the. This version doesn't have all the correct lugs to trigger Matrix metering on the and. Newer versions may.

See for details on your camera. Read down the 'AI Converted' column for this particular lens shown here. Vivitar 70-210mm Series 1..

Specifications with commentary Name: Vivitar calls this the Vivitar Series 1 70-210mm f/3.5 Macro Focusing Auto Zoom. Focal Length: 70-210mm.

On a it gives angles of view similar to what a 105-315mm lens would give on an or 35mm film camera. Optics: 15 elements in 10 groups. VMC Vivitar Multi Coating.

The efficiency of the coatings don't seem anywhere near as efficient as the coatings of the Nikkors. Looking into the Vivitar lens I see a lot more and brighter reflections than I do looking deep into a Nikkor lens. Diaphragm: 6 blades, stopping down to f/22.

Annoying arbitrary half-stop clicks added as a sales feature to impress innocent amateurs: it doesn't have twice as many settings as the Nikkor (all lenses may be set anyplace along their aperture scale), and this confuses pros who click off apertures by feel. Focus Ring: Rubber-covered metal. ROTATES BACKWARDS. Hard Infinity Focus Stop? Close Focus: 6.4 feet (1.95m), per focus scale. Additional macro mode. Maximum Reproduction Ratio: about 1:2.2 in macro mode, almost as good as a real Nikkor manual focus micro lens!