Vivitar 24mm f2 - Sample Photos

Vivitar made some very nice fast wide angle primes, and the 24mm f2 is just one of these.  Interestingly, there are at least three versions of this lens, made by different OEM.  This particular one was made by Kiron (with serial starts with 22). It's a reasonably good lens optically, but the bokeh isn't my cup of tea, as most wide angles usually don't have very good bokeh.  Wide open the lens is quite usable and is relatively sharp stopped down. It does lack the microcontrast you see in lenses like the Zeiss S-Planar 60mm f2.8 Makro. The fast maximum aperture makes it a nice lens to use in low light.

Bokeh at f2 - Sony NEX-6 & Vivitar 24mm f2. Click for larger.

Getting Lunch - Sony NEX-6 & Vivitar 24mm f2. Click for larger.

 Boarding -Sony NEX-6 & Vivitar 24mm f2. Click for larger.

Covered Walkway - Sony NEX-6 & Vivitar 24mm f2.

The Home Show

Direct Energy Center -- NEX-5 & Vivitar 24mm f2.0. click to see larger.

Went to the home show yesterday for the first time and it was one huge sales floor of all kinds of stuff.  Not what I had expected.  Our real estate agent sent us couple of passes so we didn't have to pay.  I don't know why would pay $16 to get in there just to buy stuff.

Street Car

Street Car shot through car window -- Canon 7D & Vivitar 24mm f2.0 AI. Larger.

I really like the small fast primes.  24mm on full frame is probably the widest I would use on a regular basis.  Anything wider is hard to control. 

Port of Toronto

Port of Toronto - Canon 7D & Vivitar 24mm f2.0 AI Mount. Larger.

New addition to the Vivitar family.  This Vivitar 24mm f2.0 has the Nikon AI mount, made by Kiron.  This lens should be identical to my Kiron 24mm f2.0 (OM Mount), but I compared them side by side and the coating is definitely different..  Both are great, sharp lenses.  Also have the Vivitar 24mm f2.0 in PK Mount.  The PK version looks closer to the Kiron in terms of coating, as well as focusing.  Both the Kiron and the PK mount 24mm f2.0 have the very short focusing travel, whereas the Nikon AI version has longer focusing travel.  All of them share the same filter size of 55mm.