#Vivitar lens filters series 1 full
So prior to trying it on location, one cold December afternoon I decided to do some tests.Ĩ00mm full frame. Oh sure, I’d played with it a bit after buying it, but had never really used it for any serious projects. While planning an upcoming shoot, which will likely include some wildlife opportunities, I wondered whether the solid CAT would be worth using. But those lenses are huge, and hugely expensive. In the end this combination isn’t, of course, as sharp as a prime 800mm lens would be. Only the most meticulous technique‚ heavy tripod, mirror lock-up and cable release produce acceptable results. Very occasionally I have used the Canon zoom with a Canon 2X extender when I want something like a huge sun or a highly compressed layered landscape, but this combination is physically very long and subject to the slightest vibration. My Canon 100~400mm IS zoom is as long as I regularly use. I couldn’t resist temptation and so the lens followed me home that same day. It came with a fitted case and all four rear-mount filters.
Not long ago though I was browsing the used equipment section of one of the smaller Toronto camera stores and there in the display case was an 800mm solid CAT in almost perfect condition. $650 (around $2,000 in today’s terms)‚ it was at the time completely out of reach for me. I imagined all of the great images I would be able to capture if I just had one. When these lenses were new I remember readings reviews, examining one at a dealer, and desperately wanting to own one. The lens barrel is metal and feels like it could survive reentry. It also means that this lens is extremely rugged. This means that this 800mm lens weighs less than 3 lbs and is just slight longer than 3 inches in length. What made these two mirror lenses unique was that they were of a solid glass design, with no air spaces between the front lens, rear mirror and front reflector. There also was a 600mm f/8 lens in the series of the same design. It was originally designed and built for the U.S. One of the least known yet most interesting of the Series 1 lenses was the 800mm f/11 Solid Catadioptric lens. government agencies and is renown as the designers and builders of the Hubble Space Telescope’s optical systems (including the near sighted mirror). Perkin-Elmer worked extensively at the time for NASA as well as other U.S. Betensky had worked for Perkin-Elmer as a senior optical designer. This series of lenses was designed by an American company – Opcon Associates, of Stamford Connecticut, whose chief designer, E. Probably the most famous of these was the first 70~210mm f/3.5 zoom wearing the Series 1moniker.
But in the mid-70’s to early ’80’s the brand appeared on some fascinating and high quality lenses. Today the Vivitar brand has been debased and sits at the lower end of the market. Back in the late ’70s Vivitar appeared on the scene with a series of‚ for then‚ exceptional lenses.
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