Vivitar Series 1, 90-180mm f4.5 Flat Field Zoom

[Harold Gough]

(See: https://forum.mflenses.com/vivitar-s...7r-t79362.html).

I was doing a major sort-out of my lenses when I came across a rather large, unfamiliar one. I had no idea how it got there. Then I checked and found that I bought it 6 months ago but had not picked it up since then.

It has a good reputation amongst zooms of its time. It is quite heavy but I used a bit of support for this session.

The flower was 50mm diameter. I set the lens on 90mm at a distance at 2.5 feet to frame the flower as I wanted it. At f11 only this pair, of several, met my satisfaction.

Sony A7r3 at ISO 400.

This does not give the finest detail captured by a macro lens but is excellent for close-ups.

Harold

[biggles3]

With those lovely old Vivitar Series 1 lenses, you can usually be assured of long-term quality if their serial numbers start with 22 or 37 as they represent two of the best manufacturers used by Vivitar. With your lens, I think the majority were made by Kino (22) but there were also a few produced by Komine, which would mean a number starting 28, and they too were decent performers.

[Harold Gough]

With those lovely old Vivitar Series 1 lenses, you can usually be assured of long-term quality if their serial numbers start with 22 or 37 as they represent two of the best manufacturers used by Vivitar. With your lens, I think the majority were made by Kino (22) but there were also a few produced by Komine, which would mean a number starting 28, and they too were decent performers.

It's a 22.

I also have some 105mms and 20-90mms.

[Ian]

As this isn't really aimed at FT/MFT, I've moved this thread to the Nostalgia Nexus board 👍

Ian