Vivitar 200mm shoot out....f/8 & f/11 with crops

[Big Dawg]

ISO 200 f/8 1/80 sec & f/11 1/40 sec manual mode at 35-40 feet distance.

Vivitar T4 200mm f/3.5 with tripod mount

f/8


Crop


f/11


Crop


Vivitar 200mm f/3.5 Bright Band lens

f/8


crop


f/11


crop


Vivitar T4 200mm f/3.5 without tripod mount

f/8


crop


f/11


crop


Vivitar Series 1 200mm f/3.0

f/8


Crop


f/11


Crop


Vivitar 200mm f/3.5 Komine made with rubber focus grip

f/8


Crop


f/11


Crop


Vivitar 200mm f/3.5 Kiron made with metal focus ring

f/8


Crop


f/11


Crop


Vivitar 200mm f/3.5 Komine made with metal focus grip

f/8


Crop


f/11


Crop

[Minolfan]

The Komine with rubber grip looks disappointing! I surely did not expect that.

[Big Dawg]

[Jeff Zen]

Very useful Big Dawg. You've certainly done me an enormous favor by posting these tests.

[aoleg]

[cooltouch]

Well, to me the Kiron-made f/3.5 is the obvious winner. And I think the Komine-made one with the metal focusing ring was almost as good at f/8. Hard to believe things would soften up so much at f/11 with that lens, though.

Guess I'm a bit disappointed in the Series 1. I can see CA in the f/8 image, and neither are as good as the Kiron f/3.5

[Big Dawg]

[Big Dawg]

[Big Dawg]

[cooltouch]

Well, according to your descrpition for taking a pic with the S1 then, it still seems to me that that wouldn't affect the CA I see at f/8 (magenta fringing), and the softening at f/11, if not the lens's fault, would have to be from camera shake or missed focus then.

[Big Dawg]

[cooltouch]

Hmmm . . . did you take more than one shot at f/11? Just to be sure nothing funny happened? I'm asking all this because that particular lens is the same as the one I have. Lessee . . . I did some tests with that lens -- using film -- and a couple others. I'll have to dig for the pics.

[cooltouch]

Okay, I remembered I started a thread about my 200/3.5 and compared it with a couple of other lenses -- a Canon 200/4 and a Tamron SP 60-300, which is the best non-prime I have in that focal length.

Here's the thread:
http://forum.mflenses.com/vivitar-200mm-f-3-5-t21678.html

Be sure to check out page 2, where I show duplicates -- and not scans -- I took of three of the images, which show more detail.

[Big Dawg]

[woodrim]

Hey Dawg, jpeg from the camera? Any post processing?

[Big Dawg]

[woodrim]

Okay. I was wondering if I could take a similar shot with my lens for comparison. Don't know if it could be considered a fair comparison when it isn't the exact same subject and environment. I have a Komine standard f3.5 and the Series 1, and I could throw in the Minolta Beercan just for kicks.

[cooltouch]

Woodrim, I'd like to see your results. If you don't want to hijack BD's thread, then start your own, please.

[woodrim]

Will do, Michael. Weeken almost here and I can use some lens therapy. Just a little earlier I posted some recent pictures, but not a comparison with another lens.

[Big Dawg]

Feel free to add to my thread or start a new one. Either way I'd like to see the results myself.

[Boomer Depp]

I'd still like to shoot my lineup of 200mm Vivitars,but don't know when I'll get the time till next spring.

I've been busy with a lot of scheduling,expediting,conferences,safety prep, and the usual stacks of paperwork for preparation.

I had retired,but my old company wants me to run a few jobs for them through the fall and winter.I was hoping my old second in command could run the jobs,but there have been some incidents and accidents since I left.Unfortunately the last accident recently,resulted in the death of a young welder.Other then one foot injury,my crews had an unblemished safety record for over 20 years.

Piledriving here in the Northwest on the Puget Sound,we're only allowed to drive pile from August 15 to February 15...the second job for the Port of Tacoma involves driving almost a 1000 concrete pile offshore and a new 800' inshore seawall of sheet pile,and we won't be able to start driving pile till November...usually a job of this scope we would begin driving in August...so like Big Dawg I'll be working 7 x 12's or more through the winter till February or beyond,if we can obtain an extension of the driving dates outside the Fisheries window.

[Big Dawg]

[Boomer Depp]

Thanks Dawg!

After 38 years in this trade,you can imagine how many miles I've driven commuting all over the Northwest as well as out of state.With a little over a million an a half commuting miles racked up,I don't cotton to driving much anymore.Since I retired I mostly walk or ride my bike to town,so I only gas up the vehicles every other month or so for a trip...my hours may be longer then the crews,so I'll sleep on one of the rigs and drive home once every month or two till the jobs done.

[Big Dawg]

[woodrim]

Hey Boomer, I think Dawg meant that as a pun when he said "drive carefully". But sleeping on site for months - jeesh, that can get old real quick. At least take a camera; must be some interesting picture opportunities. And be safe.