Ugly The look only a photographer would love. Glass may have marks or blemishes, but should not affect picture quality. More than average wear for the age of the item, and may have dents, dings or finish loss. Bargain Priced to sell, the rating of the equipment is at 70 to 79 percent of original condition. Glass may have slight blemishes but will not affect picture quality. Shows moderate wear for the age of the item, with the possibility of dings or blemishes. Excellent The rating of the equipment is at 80 to 89 percent of original condition. Exceptionally nice, but may have slight wear on finish visible only under close inspection.
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Excellent Plus The rating of the equipment is at 90 to 96 percent of original condition. Perfect glass, but the box and accessories are usually not included. Only the closest inspections will reveal slight wear. Like New Minus The rating of the equipment is at 97 to 99 percent of original condition. Items include original box and instructions. Like New The rating of the equipment is at 99 to 100 percent of original condition. Not previously owned or used by a consumer. My copy is M42 screw mount and is in basically new condition.New As packaged by the manufacturer complete with manufacturer's USA warranty. The lens is very heavy, in fact too heavy for a 28mm f2.5 lens. It’s made of very thick machined metal and finished quite nicely. Unfortunately, I can’t say a whole lot more positive about this lens, The Focusing action is very smooth and heavily dampened giving. Optically, this lens is just plain poor at f2.5 and f4 gaining only a bit of sharpness and IQ by f5.6. Heavy vignetting is also present at f2.5. Close-up Performance is acceptable starting at f5.6 as long as the subject is centered in the frame. Distant subjects require f8 or better yet f11 to produce a reasonably useable image with APS-C format DSLRs. Even fine lens manufacturers like Kino Precision (Kiron) make some optical dogs, this is one of them.Ĭonstruction, all metal and glass! Decent image and color once stepped down to f/8-11 I’m sure Film performance is more forgiving, but I’m not going to waste my money to find out. Sharpness: 7 Aberrations: 6 Bokeh: 5 Handling: 7 Value: 6 Camera Used: Sony a6000 Heavy, poor landscape results, f/2.5 isn't sharp or contrasty, soft edges. I concur with Ghostrider's review, and reiterate some same opinions of my sample of this lens. Mine had clean optics and mechanics, smooth operating, and OM mounting.įirst thing I noticed, mine has some left to right play in the front barrel. Therefore, focus ring will not immediately have affect on the front elements' distance. Focused on landscapes with infinity yielded inconsistently out of focus photos. Short distance photos show lesser problems from the added looseness. So, the main issue of focus could be isolated to my worn sample.īut it's shorter distance performance is only average to slightly above. A Komine-Vivitar 28mm f/2.8 Close-Focus I used to compare, produced better images all around. As well as a Kiron 28-105 f/3.5-4.5 zoom.Īll were tested at f/5.6 and f/8 with a tripod. Granted, the improvements were slight, but detectable. The 2.5 is center sharp, edge soft.Īnd the 2.5 stop is not useful. This lens is best for close distance photography. There are better 28mm offerings to use on a cropped sensor. Too big compared to f2.8 counterparts, vulnerable front glass I'd pass on this one, given that Vivitar's 28mm f/2.8 are better and can be had for similar pricing. When reading this review, please don't forget it's only my opinion on one sample of a lens. Markings are slightly different : Vivitar 28MM 1:2.5 AUTO WIDE-ANGLE N° 22xxxxxx Ø 62MM The sample I bought some years ago looks like the one pictured on the top of this page. It's probably a hard job listing all the variants of this lens. My usual way to "test" a lens like this one is having a walk with it and taking pictures of places I know. I firstly tried it with film cameras (a cheap Praktica and a K1000 with an adapter), and found it to be a good moderate WA lens.
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