Hi Marten & Arild,
I just compared the Samyang I bought new this year, with the one in this
auction.
In my opinion they are quite different lenses. The one in the auction is faster
(f/3.5, not f/4) the front element is clearly bigger, zoom & focus rings turn
in
the other direction, the Samyang has no lettering inside the front ring, and
the rubber rings are very different..
I am 99.9ure the Samyang and the Phoenix are practically identical. I
don't know where the Vivitar fits in to the series.
Brian
> Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 20:07:00 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Marten Beels <mbeels@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Subject: [OM] New third party wide-angle zoom lenses
>
> >What third party wide-angle zoom lenses made in the
> >last few years work on the OM-(1-4)?
>
> Arild,
>
> Last September I bought a brand new Vivitar Series 1
> 19-35mm f/3.5-4.5 lens for Olympus OM from BH photo
> and video. It is the same lens as the Phoenix and
> Soligor, I believe. There is also a Samyang 18-28
> still available new from various sources. Someone on
> this list recently posted lens test results from
> Popular Photography and they both performed quite
> well. The Vivitar contains a lot of plastic, but I
> haven't heard any acounts of one actually falling
> apart. Mine has withstood regular use quite well, and
> optically, the results are excellent. There are many
> favorable reviews of this lens on the internet. The
> positive word-of-mouth (keyboard??) reputation is what
> I partly based my decision to buy this lens on.
>
> Here is a picture of the lens:
> [http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1365973410]
>
> Marten
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