[gifthorse]

Vivitar 28mm f2 'close focusing' lens on a K-r

[goatsNdonkey]

Snazzy little plane. And I DO like the paint job's reference to a pre-CGI cartoon character, but it occurs to me that its shape is quite reminiscent of a British Spitfire and it might look startlingly amazing in WWII-style camouflage. Did the Brits use cartoon mascots, or only Yanks...I can't recall?

[paulh]

Vivitar 19/3.8 (xposted)

[gifthorse]

Snazzy little plane. And I DO like the paint job's reference to a pre-CGI cartoon character, but it occurs to me that its shape is quite reminiscent of a British Spitfire and it might look startlingly amazing in WWII-style camouflage. Did the Brits use cartoon mascots, or only Yanks...I can't recall?

The airplane caught my eye because I'm of an age that Underdog was a Saturday morning staple. Along with Dudley Do-Right, Magilla Gorilla, QuickDraw McGraw and my favorite Fractured Fairy Tales. The plane is one of the Sport Class, home built or kit aircraft powered by less than 1000 CI and capable of at least 200 mph. I don't know if the Brits used cartoon characters on their warbirds but there was a plane from Scotland and a plane from Australia racing this year.




My apologies for posting a short lens here but this is a closeup of the Aussie's racing jet.

[marcusBMG]

A rose was the subject for another set of test pics for my 70-210mm test inc vivitar series 1. Resized and pp'ed a bit there isn't much to choose between the 70-210mm series 1 versions. 210mm, f8, samsung NX20. Kiron VS1 top, tokina VS1 second, komine VS1 bottom.
And I would tend to favour the kiron zoomlock overall on this pic...

[paulh]

Vivitar 19/3.8

[Superprog]

[paulh]

Vivitar 135/2.8

[paulh]

Vivitar 19/3.8

[Jonathan Mac]

Here are a couple of shots using the Vivitar 75-205mm f/3.8 (version 2) yesterday. I should do a shoot-out between the two versions as I have both, though I suspect this version two is the better of them.


IMGP6352a by Jonathan MacDonald, on Flickr


IMGP6438a by Jonathan MacDonald, on Flickr

[niceshot]

Here is one 28mm f/2

[niceshot]

Here is one more from the same 28mm f/2 Kiron version Vivitar

[aslyfox]

here are some using my old Vivitar 200 mm AF in the lens priime

K 3 + Vivitar Series 1 3.5 200 mm prime af in lens (Cosina)

the first is an unknown bird in the Tropical Rain Forest Exhibit

the second photograph is a Red Tailed Hawk and is shot through the cage and the third photograph is a Sumatran Tiger cub shot through the dirty glass window of the enclosure

all animals found at the Topeka Zoological Park

[niceshot]

here is another shot with a different Lens I also rebuilt

[Arjay Bee]

The 28mm 2 is getting a lot of space in this thread - and well deserved. Very good contrast and sharp as - moved my copy on when I was raising money for the 21 ltd - miss it a bit.