Tag Archives: Ponder & Best

Vivitar Historical Research: Part 2

Posted on May 11, 2012 by Steevithak

Vivitar Re-invents the Enlarger In my last Vivitar historical article, I told the story of Ponder & Best‘s re-invention of the zoom lens when they introduced the Vivitar Series 1 70-210mm f/3.5 Macro Zoom. The company also successfully re-invented the … Continue reading →

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Vivitar Historical Research: Part 1

Posted on March 13, 2012 by Steevithak

The origin of Series 1 Lenses and the Macro Zoom Readers of this blog will know me as the system administrator for the Camera-Wiki.org web servers but I’m also a camera geek. One of my interests (or maybe obsessions) is … Continue reading →

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