Vivitar Wide Angle 19mm F/3.8 MC
Ultra-wide angle prime lens • Film era • Discontinued
- Announced:
- · No data
- Production status:
- ● Discontinued
- Country of design:
- · Japan
- Original name:
- · Vivitar 19MM 1:3.8 MC WIDE ANGLE
- Class:
- · Slow full-frame ultra-wide angle prime lens
- · Professional model
Abbreviations
| MC | Multi-layer anti-reflection coating is applied to the surfaces of lens elements. This anti-reflection coating increases light transmission, eliminates flare and ghosting, and maintains color consistence among all lens models. |
Specification
| Optical design: | |
| 35mm full frame | |
| 19mm | |
| F/3.8 | |
| 9 elements in 8 groups | |
| Canon FD [42mm] | |
| Minolta SR [43.5mm] | |
| Nikon F [46.5mm] | |
| Pentax K [45.5mm] | |
| 97.4° (35mm full frame) | |
| On Nikon D APS-C [1.53x] cameras: | |
35mm equivalent focal length: | 29.1mm (in terms of field of view) |
35mm equivalent speed: | F/5.8 (in terms of depth of field) |
Diagonal angle of view: | 73.3° |
| On Pentax K APS-C [1.53x] cameras: | |
35mm equivalent focal length: | 29.1mm (in terms of field of view) |
35mm equivalent speed: | F/5.8 (in terms of depth of field) |
Diagonal angle of view: | 73.3° |
| Diaphragm mechanism: | |
Diaphragm type: | Automatic |
Aperture control: | Aperture ring (with or without Auto Exposure setting) |
| 5 (five) | |
| Focusing: | |
| 0.20m | |
| 1:6.4 | |
Focusing modes: | Manual focus only |
Manual focus control: | Focusing ring |
| Physical characteristics: | |
| 184g (mount not specified) | |
| ⌀65×36.5mm (mount not specified) | |
| Accessories: | |
| Screw-type 62mm | |
| <No data> | |
| <No data> |
Source of data
- Manufacturer's technical data.
From the editor
Optically and mechanically the lens is identical to the Cosina 20/3.8 MC. The 1mm difference in focal length is purely for marketing reasons.
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.).
- This Vivitar lens has s/n 9xxxxxxx, therefore it was produced by Cosina.