Vivitar Lens Manufactuers. Vivitar. Vivitar Corporation was a manufacturer, distributor and marketer of photographic and optical equipment originally based in Oxnard, California.
Since 2008 the Vivitar name serves as Sakar International's photographic and optical equipment brand. Products[edit] History[edit] Vivitar Series 1 200mm f/3, circa mid-1970s. Vivitar Lens Manufactuers. Great Vivitar 28mm Bestiary. Introduction Back in the manual focus era, Vivitar were known as a great third-party lens company.
Though based in the USA, they sourced their glass from the best Japanese manufacturers: Komine, Kiron and Tokina. Even now their lenses can provide excellent optics for those who do not mind -- or actually prefer -- to focus manually. I became particularly interested in the 28mm focal length, which used to be a great wide angle in the film era, and provides a comfortable "normal equivalent" on the APS-C size sensor of today's Pentax digital cameras. Vivitar Lens Manufactuers. Vivitar 70-210 Series 1 Macro Zoom Lenses - Mark Roberts Photography. Vivitar. Identifying Vivitar rebranded manual focus lenses.