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Big Dawg
Joined: 28 Jan 2009 Posts: 2530 Location: Thach Alabama
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Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2010 5:54 pm Post subject: Vivitar Chrome nose lenses are made by Kiron. Photo evidence |
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Big Dawg wrote:
As you can see these are basically identical with the exception of the built in lens shade on the one with the Kiron serial number and the chrome nose on the other one.
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Univer
Joined: 30 Jun 2009 Posts: 282
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Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 2:35 pm Post subject: |
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Univer wrote:
Hey there,
Not that you need it, but here's a piece of corroborating evidence, from a recent eBay auction:
While its nose is black rather than chrome, it otherwise seems, to my eye at least, to be a twin of your 35/2.8 chrome-nose - but with the proper Kiron "22" serial number designation.
Maybe this series of lenses straddled the ~1970 adoption of the Vivitar serial number code, switching from serial numbers that seem (based on scanty evidence, admittedly) to be related to focal length to "orthodox" serial numbers that fit into the overall numbering scheme.
Cheers,
Jon |
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Big Dawg
Joined: 28 Jan 2009 Posts: 2530 Location: Thach Alabama
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Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 3:51 pm Post subject: |
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Big Dawg wrote:
Univer wrote: |
Hey there,
Not that you need it, but here's a piece of corroborating evidence, from a recent eBay auction:
While its nose is black rather than chrome, it otherwise seems, to my eye at least, to be a twin of your 35/2.8 chrome-nose - but with the proper Kiron "22" serial number designation.
Maybe this series of lenses straddled the ~1970 adoption of the Vivitar serial number code, switching from serial numbers that seem (based on scanty evidence, admittedly) to be related to focal length to "orthodox" serial numbers that fit into the overall numbering scheme.
Cheers,
Jon |
Thank you Jon. I plan on buying and collecting the "Bright Band" lens as well as the "Chrome Nose" lens. They are right on that borderline of serial number change as you have stated. _________________ Big Dawg |
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Univer
Joined: 30 Jun 2009 Posts: 282
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Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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Univer wrote:
My pleasure! I'll send them your way when I see 'em.
And I really like the "bright band" name - I vote we make it official.
Cheers,
Jon |
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mo
Joined: 27 Aug 2009 Posts: 8979 Location: Australia
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Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 12:20 am Post subject: |
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mo wrote:
You two will start another "net" trend... _________________ Moira, Moderator
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Big Dawg
Joined: 28 Jan 2009 Posts: 2530 Location: Thach Alabama
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Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 5:49 pm Post subject: |
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Big Dawg wrote:
mo wrote: |
You two will start another "net" trend... |
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Big Dawg
Joined: 28 Jan 2009 Posts: 2530 Location: Thach Alabama
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Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 5:58 pm Post subject: |
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Big Dawg wrote:
Univer wrote: |
My pleasure! I'll send them your way when I see 'em.
And I really like the "bright band" name - I vote we make it official.
Cheers,
Jon |
Thank you for that. I thought for a while what to call them to differentiate them from the Chrome nose ones and my wife brought up that name. I don't know if others will use it or not but I will. _________________ Big Dawg |
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steevithak
Joined: 21 Apr 2011 Posts: 27 Location: Dallas, TX
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Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 4:37 pm Post subject: |
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steevithak wrote:
I'm trying to wrap my head around the Chrome Nose vs Bright Band families of Vivitar lenses. So the Chrome nose came first, probably in the late 1960s, and preceded Vivitar's serial number standardization but are believed to have been made by Kino Precision's Kiron subsidiary. Later, Vivitar standardized the serial numbers to 22xxxx, removed the chrome nose piece, leaving just the bright band. So the Bright Bands are really just a later revision of chrome noses, still made by Kino? |
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ManualFocus-G
Joined: 29 Dec 2008 Posts: 6622 Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 11:15 pm Post subject: |
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ManualFocus-G wrote:
You'll find this lens around branded as Panagor as well, still made by Kino though. _________________ Graham - Moderator
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