Hi Bill, all: this is a wonderful macro lens; it's the one I kept after buying a couple of others and keeping the one I liked best. I bought the Elicar 90/2.5, the SMC-M 100/4 macro (actually, this one was it's equal, but I felt i could sell this one for more money than the Vivitar......) No lens resolution line pairs per millimeter test stuff, I just took some pictures of my orchids on equal terms for all the lenses and judged the vivitar the best, especially at the middle apertures. Sid
William Robb wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Paul F. Stregevsky" >Subject: VIVITAR SERIES 1 MACRO 105/2.5 > > >>Unlike its twin, the Kiron 105/2.8 1:1 Macro, the Vivitar >> >105/2.5 was later > >>made in PKA mount. William, is the Vivitar at Don's Photo a PK >> >or a PKA? > >Sorry, I should have specified. It is a PKA. My cursory >inspection revealed no obvious flaws, the aperture is nice and >quick and the focus helicoid is very smooth. There is a fair >amount of mechanical noise from the aperture mechanism, but I >recall this being fairly normal for Vivitar lenses. It does need >a bit of a cleaning. > >William Robb >- >This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, >go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to >visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
