Vivitar 100mm f2.8

[piticu]

Hi
I've just bought this lens but i couldn't find any details about it. Could someone help me a little bit? Any piece of info will be appreciated.

It's an f-mount but even the serial no is strange: 702285.
Please help

[luisalegria]

Could you post a picture of the side and mount ?

There are some Vivitars that were supplied by makers not included in the famous serial number series, even in 1970-1990.

It could also be an early Vivitar, pre-1970 lens which did not have a serial number system.

Vivitar probably sometimes sold a product just in certain markets and not in others, for instance just to the UK or Europe and not in the US. I know Soligor was like that.

[piticu]

[Laurence]

THIS is the sort of thing I LIKE about the MF crew! Take a "chance" on a lens that is sort of "offbeat" and give it a try!

It certainly has the nice design, this will be interesting.

[piticu]

Well Laurence, if you ask me i'd say i got way too much free time
I don't know about the internal lens design, bu the exterior looks very close to Vivitar 135mm f2.8 made by Komine.
The 100mm lens has a flow that i'm sure i will correct it in one way or another someday: either the aperture ring is too high or the "mount plate" is too sunken because i cannot mount the lens on my camera.

[luisalegria]

What I can tell so far -

This probably came out as a Vivitar in 1971. The serial number is probably not in the famous Vivitar series because it is too short, the Vivitar serial number system needs 4-5 digits just for the coding. Maybe the serial number series was phased in slowly and was not completely in place when this was sold.

There was a similar lens sold as a Spiratone and as a Miida around that time. Spiratone was a distributor and I think so was Miida. Miida may have been associated with Hoya and possibly Sun.

[luisalegria]

FYI, and in case the name Miida ever comes up again -

Miida was just a trademark for Marubeni, which is an old Japanese trading company. So that gets us no closer to identifying this.

[Screamin Scott]

I still have an old Miida monopod from the early 70's

[sichko]

Vivitar 2.8/135 Auto Telephoto No. 28529077 for comparison




I've got too much time on my hands.

[piticu]

My Vivitar 135mm 2.8 looks even more similar to 100mm. Look:

[Screamin Scott]

I have 2 Vivitar 100mm F2.8's . Both were made by Tokina, one is in Nikon Pre-Ai mount & the other in Konica EE mount...Nice lenses they are...

[Screamin Scott]

The models I have are not quite as old as the one in the first photo of this thread & they are identifiable via the serial #'s which both start with 37...

[newton]

Anyone have any gallery pictures with this lens? Thx. Where can I find sample pics?

Can someone show me how this lens shoots? PM me if you are interested in this lens, as I cannot use it. I would love to see how it shoots.

[kds315*]

Nice lens! Looks like a pre-AI mount to me though.

[newton]

Thanks! Does that mean that it will work on a Nikon? I have no idea. I think it is a Minolta mount. PM me if you are interested in this 100 mm f/2.8. I sadly cannot use it with any of my bodies. I know this is a great lens.

[martyn_bannister]

I would have said Minolta mount. I'd be tempted to undo the whole mount and screw some other sort of adapter/body cap in its place

[newton]

Martin, do you think it is worth it? I am guessing it is a great lens but can't find any sample pics with it here.

[Olivier]

I found this about a vivitar 2.8/100 :

http://forum.mflenses.com/anyone-heard-of-vivitar-100-f2-8-non-macro-m42-t35787,highlight,%2Bvivitar+%2B100+%2B2+%2B8.html

and could be the same as this one :
http://forum.mflenses.com/chinonflex-100mm-f-2-8-in-m42-mount-t18348.html

If it's like a pentor, look at spotmatic's results...

[dimitrygo]

[Minolfan]

A lens with Minolta MC/MD bayonet certainly will not work on a Nikon body.
Different mount and register distance.

Pity that shipping is pricy to Europe.

[newton]

[martinsmith99]

Hardly anything works on a Nikon without corrected optics.

[Minolfan]

[eggboy]

I've had this lens for a while and just popped onto my old Canon 5D...basically to get a few pics out of it before selling it...and I like it better than my Nikkor 105/2.5 Sonnar! Build quality is decent...and it really renders pretty! I only shoot pix of my kid nowadays it seems, but this just seems like a nice portrait lens...perhaps I sell the Nikkor...as it will bring somewhat more than this one...

It has an odd serial number: 40xxxxxx...which doesn't seem to match any of the Vivitar schemes out there. It does look like it's the exact same lens as the original poster in this thread.

Some shots of the lens, and by the lens wide open, below.


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#8 - this shot is odd as it looks like there is massive dust on the sensor...but it's not there on subsequent shots...I wonder if the incoming light just highlighted some internal lens dust that was perfectly projected onto the sensor...?

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[martinsmith99]

Pretty amazing quality. I would not be selling a lens like that.