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Vivitar Series 1 100-400mm 1: 4.5-6.7 MC Auto Focus Zoom review

This lens is also known under the names: Cosina, Phoenix, Promaster, and possibly some others. The copy from this review is for Nikon cameras, but the lens itself was produced for all popular systems.

Vivitar Series 1 100-400mm

The lens is well assembled, but it still feels that it is very far from the manufacturing quality of the 'serious' lenses. The trunk of the lens constantly spontaneously protrudes, so the lens lengthens noticeably. And it becomes very uncomfortable to walk with him ..

MC enlightenment of the front and rear lenses of the Vivitar Series 1 100-400mm lens

Auto focusing speed is average, at 100mm the lens focuses much faster than at 400mm. When focusing my camera motor Nikon D700 uneven, strained buzzing, the front lens rotates and drives forward. When zooming, the front lens does not rotate. The rubberized focus ring rotates approximately 180 degrees.

Vivitar Series 1 100-400mm at 400mm when focusing on MDF

The Vivitar Series 1 100-400mm is a piston design lens for changing focal length, be sure to pull the rubberized zoom ring towards you or away from you, rather than rotate it, as is done with conventional lenses. The lens has an aperture control ring. To control the aperture value from the camera, you need to set the aperture ring to F / 22 and fix it with a special button (for more details, see the section on Non-G Lenses) Auto focus with the Vivitar Series 1 100-400mm lens is only available when used on cameras with a built-in focus motor. A list of cameras that support auto focus with AF lenses can be found in the 'Auto focus on Nikon cameras'. Also, this lens does not transmit the focusing distance to the camera and is an analog Non-d lens. The Vivitar Series 1 100-400mm can use a hood that fits into special slots near the front lens.

Vivitar Series 1 100-400mm on the ZK

Vivitar Series 1 100-400mm is very weak aperture - at 400 mm, the aperture opens up to a maximum of F / 6.7, which is 1,43 worse than the classic value of F / 5.6. When I used the lens on my camera Nikon D80, the camera recognized the Vivitar Series 1 100-400mm as a lens with a focal length range of 102-390mm, and the maximum aperture of 102mm was F / 4.8. On camera Nikon D700 everything was according to the lens markings. I have seen problems with the lens chip on many of these lenses, especially under the 'Cosina' name.

The parameters shown in the photo gallery:
Everything is filmed on Nikon D700. On-camera JPEG L ('optimal quality' compression), no processing. Functions: vignetting control, ADL, noise reduction at long exposures, noise reduction at high ISOs were turned off. All shot in Picture Control mode SD (standard mode): contrast correction - 0, brightness - 0, saturation - 0, hue - 0, sharpness - position 5 out of 10. Used white balance: 'Cloudy.' The size of the photos was reduced to 3 MP.

The parameters shown in the photo gallery:
Everything is filmed on Nikon D80. On-camera JPEG L Fine. Noise reduction at slow shutter speeds and noise reduction at high ISO were turned off. Everything was shot in N (Neutral) Picture Control. Was used white balance: 'Cloudy.' The size of the photos was reduced to 3 MP.

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Conclusions

Vivitar Series 1 100-400mm 1:4.5-6.7 MC Auto Focus Zoom is an interesting telephoto lens with 4x zoom. On Nikon DX cameras EGF will be 150-600mm, which makes it easy to reach distant objects while doing photo hunting. Among the shortcomings, I want to highlight the spontaneous loss of the trunk and the poor image quality on open apertures. When you close the aperture to F / 8.0 and below, the lens becomes very personal. With such a telephoto and not very fast lens, it is quite difficult take off.

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