Vivitar 28mm f/1.9 series 1 VMC

[ManualFocus-G]

This is the Tokina made lens which I took for a few test shots today. These first images were all shot wide open at f/1.9 on my full frame Canon EOS 6D.

The lens





Wide open samples









100% crop



I'm really impressed! Like all the fast wide Vivitars of the era, it has nice colours and a wonderful way of rendering images (+ dodgy corners!). But whilst there's clearly coma issues wide open, it's certainly sharp enough Stopped down images to come once the baby stops crying

[kds315*]

Quite nice Graham! I have that lens too

[Billou]

Beautiful pictures. I had this lens, and it rendered a great 3D effect. I had to sell it, and now I regret. You make me want to look for another one.

[kds315*]

You can have mine, I'm not using it enough...

[Attila]

Excellent report, I had once this lens I was very satisfied with it's performance.

[Rick1779]

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Those images looks great! Would love to be able to find one of these in Nikon Ai mount.

[kds315*]

I have one in Nikon mount, and don't use it

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[SonicScot]

This is another Series 1 I'm missing from my set, the photos here make me want to try harder to find one.

[Attila]

Very good lens indeed, I sold mine due really don't need to me fast 28mm lens.

[Davichin]