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Post by olroy2044 on Mar 15, 2008 18:53:37 GMT -5
Hello everybody: "Somehow"  over the course of time, I've acquired a few Vivitar TX series lenses, with the interchangeable mount. I've got two adapters for them, an M42 and what I think is a Konica. Has anyone used these lenses? I have not taken any shots with them. Build quality appears pretty good. Built by Tokina? Think I'll dig out the Spot F and give 'em a whirl. Roy |
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Post by Just Plain Curt on Mar 15, 2008 19:55:31 GMT -5
Hi Roy,
I'm sure others can put a better spin on these but for my money, I have around a dozen T4/TX mount lenses and I buy them any chance I get. Decent glass at a bargain rate as most folk aren't savvy yet to how good some of the older third party optics really are.
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Post by olroy2044 on Mar 15, 2008 21:14:43 GMT -5
Thanks for the reply, Curt. I checked this link and confirmed that my "odd" adapter is in fact a Konica--marked K/AR!!!! Dummy here thought he was getting a PKa mount!  ! Anybody got a PK mount adapter they'd like to trade?  Classic case of seeing what I wanted to see, not what was there!!! Ol(whydontchalearnhowtoread!)Roy  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2008 22:07:16 GMT -5
In my whole career I've only had one lens with a changeable mount and that was a 135mm f 2.8 Vivitar preset with a T mount way back in the late 1960s. Not sure why. It wasn't a conscious thing on my part.
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Post by Just Plain Curt on Mar 16, 2008 4:29:19 GMT -5
Have you tried Bill Salati's excellent site "The Casual Collector"? He goes more into depth than I can.
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Post by olroy2044 on Mar 25, 2008 4:09:30 GMT -5
Well, I ran a roll of Fuji 400 Superia thru the old Spottie using nothing but TX lenses. Wound up using just the 35mm and the 300 'cause the spring that closes the blades in the 135 came loose and is rattling around inside! To the bench with that one! I was very pleasantly surprised with the results. The smart- alec pix in the "Sorry Guys" thread were all taken with the TX's. They seem to be a little prone to flare, but a little care and a hood control it. Here's a few more for your enjoyment and comments. 300mm f16  35mm f11  Cropped  Here's the full frame that I cropped the goose from to give Randy a hard time ;D  Enjoy, Roy |
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Post by daveinpasadena on Mar 28, 2008 23:45:30 GMT -5
I have several Vivitar and Soligor T/TX lenses and I'm quite happy with them. Vivitar in particular bought many of their lenses from small, high-quality Japanese optical houses in the 60's and 70's.
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Post by olroy2044 on Mar 29, 2008 19:35:39 GMT -5
Hi Dave: I'm pretty sure that both the Soligor and Vivitar versions of the TX were built by Tokina. The more I mess with these things, the more impressed I am. Looks like I found a niche collection to go after They are relatively inexpensive, and good value as users. |
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Post by casualcollector on Mar 30, 2008 9:37:24 GMT -5
SHHHHHH! Quiet, Roy. You'll drive the prices up!!
It's been four or five years since I wrote my piece on T4. Now I have a new theory. I'm still certain that both Soligor and Vivitar lenses came from the same factory. Having been looking at lenses on e-bay and on several Mamiya oriented sites (mostly Ron Herron and Roland Stauber) I'm concluding that Mamiya's Setagaya Koki (Sekor) facility produced the Tokyo Koki (Tokina) lenses. The short version of that meaning that T4 lenses are Mamiya products.
Somewhere in the timeline, before the introduction of the TX system, A.I.C./Soligor and Tokina went their seperate ways. Soligor did not, to my knowledge, market the TX lenses. Instead, they went to another maker. TX lenses should be a Vivitar only product, at least in the U.S.
I've acquired several TX lenses over the past couple of years, including 135/2.5, 135/2.8 and 28/2.8. All are different from their earlier T4 counterparts.
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Post by olroy2044 on Mar 30, 2008 12:13:55 GMT -5
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Post by burb72 on Mar 2, 2009 9:06:55 GMT -5
I have a 24 2.8 with a k mount, wondering what its worth. Perfect condition, like new, except for a few specs of dust it seems in lens. Its got a steel lens cap that screws into a vivitar filter and end cap and little leather case.
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Post by casualcollector on Mar 2, 2009 16:44:10 GMT -5
I have a 24 2.8 with a k mount, wondering what its worth. Perfect condition, like new, except for a few specs of dust it seems in lens. Its got a steel lens cap that screws into a vivitar filter and end cap and little leather case. If it has a Pentax K mount adapter it should generate some interest on e-bay. It can be used fairly conveniently on Pentax digital SLRs. |
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Post by burb72 on May 31, 2009 17:13:16 GMT -5
it has the pentax adaptor for the tx, going on ebay today
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Post by casualcollector on Jun 1, 2009 17:45:49 GMT -5
Good luck burb. Hope you sell it. At that opening bid I think you may be sitting on it for a while.
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over the course of time, I've acquired a few Vivitar TX series lenses, with the interchangeable mount. I've got two adapters for them, an M42 and what I think is a Konica. Has anyone used these lenses? I have not taken any shots with them. Build quality appears pretty good. Built by Tokina? Think I'll dig out the Spot F and give 'em a whirl. Roy 
! Anybody got a PK mount adapter they'd like to trade? 
Classic case of seeing what I wanted to see, not what was there!!!
