WTSell: Lens - Nikon Vivitar 70-210 F3.5 (Kiron)


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Advertisement Category: Want To Sell (WTS)

Equipment Type: Lens
Equipment Brand: Nikon
Equipment Model: Vivitar 70-210 F3.5 (Kiron)
Price (S$): $200
Description:
Selling my favourite beautiful, excellent optics, well built and rare tele-lense with a cult status.

Quoted from Kenrockwell website (see review below):
"optics and handing are excellent."
"Sharpness is excellent, corner-to-corner at ever setting.
It has a little lower contrast wide open, but is always sharp. Contrast picks right up a stop closed down."

Quoted from photography.suite101:
"The Series 1 lenses were Vivitar’s premium professional quality lenses and commanded a consequential high retail price. While the lenses were very good, it took too long for their reputation to build in the market place and they did not achieve the sales they deserved. Subsequent Series 1 lenses became more market oriented with convenience features and lower prices, at the expense of ultimate quality.

Serious photographers continue to use the lenses and extol their virtues. Second-hand examples in good condition sell quickly, as they represent good value for money compared to new lenses."

70-210mm f3.5 Zoom
"This is the best known of the early Vivitar lenses and was at the forefront of the popularization of zoom lenses in 35mm photography. It achieves cult status because of the groundbreaking role it played in the development of the zoom lens rather than outright optical quality."

Very well built, it's built like a pro lense. The picture quality is on par with the Nikon Series E 70-210mm which I used to have. The built quality is many times better than the Nikon Series E.

(as posted by some Kiron's former employee, Kiron made some of the Nikon Seires E, check out the Third Party lense with cult status below)


please visit this link to have more information on the Vivitar 70-210 F3.5

http://www.robertstech.com/vivitar.htm

Mine is the first version, made my Kiron.

Reviews (make sure you read all the reviews below):
http://photography.suite101.com/article.cfm/vivitar_cult_classic_camera_lenses
http://www.kenrockwell.com/vivitar/70-210mm.htm
http://forum.fourthirdsphoto.com/showthread.php?t=50045
http://www.flickr.com/groups/365610@N21/discuss/72157603717517230
http://www.techtheman.com/2008/03/vivitar-70-210-series-1-f35-from-kiron.html
http://forum.fourthirdsphoto.com/showthread.php?t=49072
http://www.chamsocbe.com/tips/20090203/1281,23,third-party-lenses-with-cult-followings.aspx#steve
http://omexperience.wordpress.com/lenses/vivitar-series-1-70-210mm-f35/

Check out these amazing sample photos:
http://www.pbase.com/kocho/test_vivitar_70210f35
http://www.flickr.com/photos/miguelno/tags/vivitarseries170210f35/

Not sure if you can find one of this in Singapore. Be the ONE who owns this professional, old-school-cool, cult lense with lots of tales to impress your photographer friends about.

As you can tell, I love this lens and probably do not want to sell it at all. But currently cash strap, hence selling slowly stuffs that I have.

Real Name: Trung
Contact Number: 96232141

Condition of Item (as per guidelines): 9
Warranty Status: 7 days personal warranty

Package/Accessories/Extras:
Nil

Additional Comments:
Rating conservatively at 8 or if not, maybe at 9
 

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