#VIVITAR 70 210 MACRO VERSION 3 HOW TO#

It's the best of the 3 versions that Vivitar offered. If you still want a Series 1 70-210, get the f2.8 flavor. The bokeh is delicious, and I especially like that it's smaller in diameter than previous versions as I have small hands so for me, it's much easier to handhold for shots that would demand a tripod from the larger earlier versions, including the Series 1.

#VIVITAR 70 210 MACRO VERSION 3 HOW TO#

Hinman, who posted about his on the 'SOLD' thread you found at pentaxforums, has a nice visual tutorial for how to do it both on his blog and on pentaxforum. If the serial number on the front of your 70-210 f/4.5 Vivitar begins with the numbers 77, and it has a large baffle on the mount end so that it won't mount on your DSLR, you have a 1990s Kobori-made Vivitar, and you'll have to do some minor but not at all scary surgery to get it to fit a DSLR. I'm waiting to see what Photokina brings us all. :-( Yet, together with a kit lens, this is more glass than I would otherwise be able to afford. Makes me REALLY wonder about it's usefulness now. Thank you for letting me know what I have in the Vivitar is NOT a Series 1. What follows are a couple of inadequate the 50mm/2.8 is not the macro version. Now I am concentrating on capture techniques. Since I am largely self-taught (except for one photog college class back in the day), it took me quite a while to figure out that you need to capture in the 'opposite' fashion of B/W film using the Zone System, so I concentrated most of my efforts on PP in the past half year with an email mentor I met on this site. All for the purpose of learning digital basics and PP in ACR and PS. Then I added a Canon sx120 IS this spring on which I shoot RAW with the help of the CHDK (Canon Hack Developers Kit). Poor choice I soon discovered so I replaced it with a Z1418 for its manual controls.

For almost the past year now I used, first a Kodak C813. I know I would need a kit lens for the wide angle to do landscapes. Thanks Mel and Tommy for your quick I like to do landscapes, nature, portraiture, and, hope to do some macro work plus still life.

Vivitar 70 210 macro version 3