Came home from a visit with my Dad in an Omaha hospital yesterday with a bit of extra cargo. A lens I never thought I'd get the chance to own: Vivitar Series 1 90mm f2.5 Macro (otherwise known as the Bokina). Got it in a K-mount (along with the matching 1:1 converter) and also a genuine Pentax M42 adapter for the grand total of $140. It happened to show up on Craigslist a few days before and I was happy to find it still available when I got there on Friday. As it turns out the lens was literally 6 blocks away from the hospital that my dad was in. It is a gorgeous lens and I'll share some pictures of it (and with it in coming days). I bought it from the original owner and have the original manual and registration card, dated March 10, 1981.
I'm also wanting to do some 1:2 and portrait side-by-side comparison shots with it and the Tamron SP 90mm f2.5 macro that I got a couple of weeks ago. (I don't have the 1:1 adapter for the Tamron. Maybe those comparioson will be useful to someone. The guy also had a SMC K 500mm f4.5 with original case that could only be fairly described as MINT. That is a BIG lens with an objective lens nearly the size of a SAUCER. Darren Addy Kearney, NE -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
