Vivitar 250mm F/4.5
Medium telephoto prime lens • Film era • Discontinued
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- Announced:
- · No data
- Production status:
- ● Discontinued
- Country of design:
- · Japan
- Original name:
- · Vivitar 1:4.5 250mm
- Class:
- · Slow full-frame medium telephoto prime lens
Specification
| Optical design: | |
| 35mm full frame | |
| 250mm | |
| F/4.5 | |
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| Interchangeable mount (T) | |
| 9.9° (35mm full frame) | |
| Diaphragm mechanism: | |
Diaphragm type: | Preset |
Aperture control: | Preset ring + Aperture ring |
| 12 (twelve) | |
| Focusing: | |
| 3m | |
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Focusing modes: | Manual focus only |
Manual focus control: | Focusing ring |
| Physical characteristics: | |
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| Accessories: | |
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Source of data
- Own research.
From the editor
Made by Norita Kogaku.
Notes
- Independent-brand lenses were made for 35mm film SLR cameras by companies that competed with the camera manufacturers. Some came from factories that made lenses under their own brand names (Angenieux, Kiron, Sigma, Tamron, Tokina). Many others were national and international marketing organizations (Kalimar, Panagor, Rokunar, Soligor, Starblitz) that bought lenses from anonymous manufacturers. One firm — Vivitar — actually designed its own lenses and accessories, which were then subcontracted to manufacturing firms. Still others were private labels, sold only by specific photo specialty shops (Cambron, Quantaray, Spiratone).
- The actual manufacturer of a Vivitar lens can be identified by the first digits of the serial number: 09 - Cosina, 13 - Schneider-Kreuznach, 19 - Sigma, 22 - Kino Precision Industries, 25 - Ozone Optical, 28 - Komine, 32 - Makina Optical, 33 - Asanuma, 37 - Tokina, 42 - Eugen Bauer, 44 - Perkin Elmer, 47 - Chinon, 51 - Tokyo Trading, 56 - Kyoe Shoji, 61 - Samyang, 6x - Olympus, 75 - Hoya, 77 - Kobori, 81 - Polar, 9x - Cosina. This numbering system, however, was used by Vivitar only between 1969 and 1991 (approx.).
Lenses with similar focal length
| ■Interchangeable mount (3) | |||||||||
| Soligor Tele-Auto 250mm F/4.5 (s/n 1xxxxxx) [T-4] | A | 4 - 4 | 4.50m | ⌀62 | ● | ||||
| Tamron 250mm F/4.5 [T] akaSoligor 250mm F/4.5 | P | 4 - 2 | 4.50m | ⌀62 | 1963 ● | ||||
| Vivitar Auto 250mm F/4.5 (s/n 37xxxxxxx) [T-4] | A | 4 - 4 | 4.50m | ⌀62 | ● | ||||
| ■M42 mount (3) | |||||||||
| Enna Munchen Tele-Ennalyt 240mm F/4.5 [II] | M | 5 - 3 | 3.00m | ⌀67 | ● | ||||
| Enna Munchen Tele-Ennalyt 240mm F/4.5 [I] | M | 3 - 2 | 2.40m | ⌀67 | ● | ||||
| Meyer-Optik Gorlitz Telemegor 250mm F/5.5 [V] | P | 4 - 2 | 3.30m | ⌀58 | 1952 ● | ||||
| ■Minolta SR mount (1) | |||||||||
| Minolta Tele Rokkor-QF 250mm F/4 | P | 6 - 4 | 3.00m | ⌀77 | 1959 ● | ||||