Bernd,
This lens is not made by Vivitar, but Samyang, I believe. I owned it for a
while in the Phoenix version, Tokina also sells the same lens.
There was a report of this lens in the Phoenix version in Popular
Photography a few years ago. In short, some degree of barrel distortion,
but nothing that isn't tolerable unless you are taking photos of buildings
for a living. Lens has good sharpness and contrast. Build quality is OK,
not great. Hood is round, not the tulip-type, but seemed to function well
for me.
I purchased mine for a trip and used it a lot, loved it actually. Makes a
great travel lens. I'm pretty sure Warren Kato has one of these also. Sold
mine when I bought a 21 Zuiko from a list member.
Vivitar lenses no longer have the quality nor uniqueness they had in the
70's and 80's. Vivitar fell on hard times in the late 70's and lost a lot
of good people (hopefully, one of them was me!).
Brian P. Huber
> Recently I saw a Vivitar Series 1 19-35mm with OM mount for
> sale at a shop around here. It is new, and after visiting the
> Vivitar website I found that it is still being produced.
>
> Does anybody want to share their experiences with this lens?
> I was able to try it on a camera and was surprised by the low
> distortion even at 19mm. It feels much plastic-like, and in
> fact the barrels seems to be made entirely of plastic. Are
> the Series 1 lenses not regarded as top-line products?
> Photographyreview.com has some good reviews on the AF version
> of that lens.
>
> What would a good price be for this lens?
>
> thanks in advance, best regards
>
> Bernd Möller
< This message was delivered via the Olympus Mailing List >
< For questions, mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >
< Web Page: http://Zuiko.sls.bc.ca/swright/olympuslist.html >
|