On Feb 3, 2006, at 5:25 AM, Juan Buhler wrote:
Does anyone know if the Vivitar 24mm/2.8 is any good? How does it
compare to, say, the K24mm/3.5?
Depends on which one. Vivitar is a marketing company, not a lens
maker, and their lenses have come from a number of different
suppliers at
Hi Juan,
Vivitar quality is all over the place. Different companies have made the
lenses under the Vivitar name, and unless you know who made which lens,
you'd only be guessing at what to expect. The Series 1 lenses have an
excellent reputation, unless you have a later Series 1 lens which was
Op Fri, 03 Feb 2006 12:29:12 +0100 schreef Shel Belinkoff
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snip
There's a listing for cult lenses somewhere on the 'net, and it provides
some good info.
That would be http://medfmt.8k.com/third/cult.html, a must read.
Jim Colwell's SplosDB lists third party lense with
Juan Buhler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone know if the Vivitar 24mm/2.8 is any good? How does it
compare to, say, the K24mm/3.5?
I had a Vivitar 24/2.8 once. It was about 10 years ago and I didn't have
a Pentax 24 for comparison so I can't really tell you how it rates on
that basis.
From: Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2006/02/03 Fri PM 01:22:47 GMT
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Subject: Re: Vivitar 24mm/2.8 - any good?
Juan Buhler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone know if the Vivitar 24mm/2.8 is any good? How does it
compare to, say, the K24mm/3.5?
I
On Feb 3, 2006, at 8:35 AM, mike wilson wrote:
Soft across the frame and with the flare resistance of a circa1972
Led Zeppelin groupie.
ROFLMAO!
Bob
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Mark Roberts wrote:
Juan Buhler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone know if the Vivitar 24mm/2.8 is any good? How does it
compare to, say, the K24mm/3.5?
I had a Vivitar 24/2.8 once. It was about 10 years ago and I didn't have
a Pentax 24 for comparison so I can't
As others have said, the Vivitar stuff was made by lots of different
companies.
...And the quality of Vivitar products has varied greatly over the years.
This is also true specifically for the Series 1 lenses, too. While they
were almost always of very high calibre in the 70's and
Juan Buhler wrote:
Does anyone know if the Vivitar 24mm/2.8 is any good? How does it
compare to, say, the K24mm/3.5?
Couldn't tell you how it compared, but I had a Vivitar VMC 24mm 2.8
Vivitar manual focus lens. I bought it new maybe 11 years ago. It
performed pretty well: good contrast
Thanks everybody for all the comments. I do have the K24/3.5, which is
excellent, so I was actually asking about the Vivitar for someone
else. I think passing on this one might be a good idea--worth waiting
for a nice SMC one.
j
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