The year before Hanimex took over, Vivitar lost five million US dollars. The year after the takeover Vivitar experienced a four million dollar profit. By Vivitar has reached million US dollars in annual sales. In the late s Vivitar introduced self-contained, battery-powered auto-focus lenses. These were fixed mount lenses designed for conventional, non-autofocus SLRs. There were both Vivitar and Vivitar Series 1 branded auto-focus units.
The concept was later abandoned, making these lenses relatively rare. A real estate slump in the late s forced Chase Group to sell several of its business. In March of , John Bourne was named president of Vivitar. In , Concord Camera Corp , a manufacturer of pocket cameras, attempted to buy Vivitar from Gestetner PLC but was unable to finalize the purchase when increasing financial losses prevented them from coming up with the required cash in time.
Concord's President, Victor M. Chernick, was president of Vivitar from through At this time Vivitar had employees. The Northridge earthquake [23] damaged Vivitar's primary facilities in the San Fernando Valley and caused the loss of product stock.
This is said by some to be responsible for the final demise of the Vivitar Series 1 lenses, which were already suffering a decline in sales due to Gestetner's new focus on selling point-and-shoot cameras and Vivitar's decision not to pursue auto-focus technology.
On February 24, Douglas E. Howe was named president of Vivitar. The company was bought on November 21, by Syntax-Brillian Corporation. Sakar International acquired the Vivitar brand and intellectual property on August 21, The deal did not include Vivitar's equipment or facilities.
The brand name lives on, however, and continues to be used for marketing photographic equipment. Listed in order of release date and ascending model number. Lens mount type and manufacturer is listed if known. An attempt has been made to break down the Vivitar lenses by family, that is, a group of lenses that were marketed together for a period of time.
The families are listed in roughly chronological order of introduction. One great lens doesn't make a new product line; and we sold lens lines, not just lenses. That's what our US dealers wanted. Typically, the manufacturer designed and produced the lens and then offered it to us.
If we didn't buy sufficient quantities, that same lens was often sold to Soligor or another distributor. Soligor was our biggest competitor at the time. So we always tried to figure out how to sell what we were offered. That led to some very strange product lineups!
For example, at the same time we were selling our T4 mount, we also had a T4, a fixed mount, and probably others of similar zoom range. We also had three interchangeable mount lens lines: T-mount manual aperture setting and two semi-automatic lines: the T4 and TX, which I was first marketed by Tamron. It seems strange, but followed our business practice of trying to keep these lenses out of the hands of our US competitors. The Japanese were very difficult to deal with, didn't much value our American opinion, and pretty much did what they wanted.
If we didn't like it Bill's reference to Tamron may be mistaken or may refer to lenses in the T Mount line. They also had to switch manufacturers from time to time depending on what was being offered to them. Other distributors tended to rely solely on the manufacturer's quality control measures. The lenses in this family were made by several different manufacturers.
A few models were still being sold after the switch to a unified serial number system, providing further confirmation of manufactures listed here. These rare lenses are easily identified by a preset ring marked with a large red triangle, suggesting a pyramid to some collectors. The Pyramid Presets were introduced later the life cycle of the Compatible T System; the earliest printed reference is The mm zoom came in 4 variants: two matching the Chrome nose family look, one matching the Bright Band family look and the last matching the more common all-black.
All the Type 3 T mounts were made by Kino Precision. Some collectors refer to this as the Vivitar two window preset lens. More documentation is needed on this lens, particularly marketing materials, ads, manuals, or magazine reviews. The Chrome Nose lens family was marketed starting in July of through These are the first automatic, fixed-mount lenses marketed by Vivitar.
In addition to the chrome nose, the lenses have an unusual lens coating which gives the glass a distinctive blue tint. Vivitar TYL Manuals. Vivitar VBT Manuals. Vivitar VFB Manuals. Vivitar ViviCam Manuals. Vivitar Massager GM Instruction manual 11 pages, 0. Vivitar Measuring Instruments 45 Owner's manual 16 pages. Vivitar Other HV Manual 15 pages, 2. Vivitar DPS Manuals. Vivitar DP X Manuals. Vivitar DPX Manuals.
Vivitar Tablet Camelio Quick start manual 22 pages, 2. Vivitar Camelio2 Manuals. A class 6 or faster SD card should be used in the D If you use a slower card, there can be problems when recording video. For more information check out this page on Nikon D memory card compatibility and recommendations.
You can tell the class of a memory card by looking at the label. There will be a small number inside a C. Any memory card purchased in the last few years will be class The Nikon D was originally sold in two different kits.
With this lens you'll be able to take photos at up to 1x magnification. The current flash being produced by Nikon for the D is the SB It is a fully-featured flash with iTTL, which will allow high-speed sync. However, the flash is expensive. Below are links to the official PDF copies of the manuals provided by Nikon.
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