With that all said, I have several pictures around taken with that lens. 1
8x10, and several 5x7's. It's certainly a different viewpoint than a 28mm.
However, I have taken maybe 5 pictures with it since getting the Zenitar.
I did an impromtu side by side shot with the Zenitar and Vivitar - and the
difference in contrast was so obvious on the contact sheet I didn't even
enlarge it any before concluding the Zenitar was better!
Pictures taken with the lens in question: (both have cats in them. Har! Har!)
http://www.visi.com/~nickmpls/deck.jpg
http://www.visi.com/~nickmpls/tybalt19.jpg
(picture #1 is either F11 or F16, picture #2 is either wide open or F5.6.
I'm pretty sure I had a yellow filter on the lens in #1).
Todd
At 07:41 PM 7/22/01 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm just going to do a "me too" pretty much on what
>Todd said. I had the Vivitar 19/3.8 for about 9
>years, and never made a photo with it that I cared to
>enlarge to 8x10. Actually, sharpness was ok in the
>center on mine wide open, if you could find a scene
>that had little chance of ANY extraneous light hitting
>the lens. Truly a flare machine. I put an uncoated
>uv filter on the front, and that actually cut flare
>slightly (because the filter ring served as a hood, of
>a poor sort). On mine though, the corners were not
>sharp at any aperture. I would give it a miss,
>and....
>
>....look at the Zenitar fisheye(I know, like Todd
>said). Better speed, sharpness, flare control. Mine
>goes with me *everywhere*, and there is a lot of times
>that you can minimize or hide the distortion (just not
>around tall buildings) I have found the field of view
>(180 deg) vastly more useful than the 97 deg of the
>vivitar. Your mileage may vary.
>
>William in Utah.
>
>
>>
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