What mount is this lens?

mojo43

mojo43

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Hi, I just bought a Vivitar 28mm 2.0 lens and I have no idea what mount it is. Can someone tell me please?

Thanks in advance...

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Hmmm... I looked through it but it doesn't look like anything matches :(

Anyone else want to take a stab at it?
 
According to the Vivitar site, the cameras they have lens mounts for are, Nikon, Canon,
Pentax, and Sony.

My guess at the moment is Pentax... I never really had much to do with Pentaxes, so that's just a guess... (They did have a screw mount which just never set well with me...)
 
Thanks for that. It narrows it down. I will start looking on google for mount images until I can find one that matches...
 
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Wait, well if it's not canon FD, and it's not Nikon or Pentax because I don't think any of them have just a little gap like that...hmmm....yes from google images it appears to be Sony. gap in a near solid metal ring.
 
The Sony mount did not exist when that lens was made. I think that looks like a Nikon mount but I really can't tell 100% from memory as I'm only a casual Nikon user - might be worth taking it up to a camera store and asking them if they can tell what it is, and/or see if they have some different cameras that you can mount it on to test. Lenses made in that era could have been Nikons, Canon FDs, Olympus M/Pentax K, or Minolta MD.
 
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The Sony Alpha mount is I think based on the Minolta Autofocus mount, I don't know if the Minolta AF mount is compatible with the older Minolta manual focus mount, I believe the Sony Alpha mount is all electronic so an adapter wouldn't give you the ability to change the aperture.
 
thisisapocalypse said:
The Sony mount did not exist when that lens was made. I think that looks like a Nikon mount but I really can't tell 100% from memory as I'm only a casual Nikon user - might be worth taking it up to a camera store and asking them if they can tell what it is, and/or see if they have some different cameras that you can mount it on to test. Lenses made in that era could have been Nikons, Canon FDs, Olympus M/Pentax K, or Minolta MD.
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Doesn't look like a Nikon lens that I've ever seen... the big flat bar sticking out just doesn't look like anything Nikon... the other thing is the little hooded flange...

The oldest Nikon lens I have is for a 70's vintage Nikon F with the external interlock for the meter. That one doesn't have the features of this lens in question.

I only had a Minolta briefly in the early 70's, and it was a fixed lens...


Perhaps what the object lesson from this discussion should be...

Don't buy a third party lens without knowing exactly what camera it was for...
 
j1clark@ucsd.edu said:
Doesn't look like a Nikon lens that I've ever seen... the big flat bar sticking out just doesn't look like anything Nikon... the other thing is the little hooded flange...

The oldest Nikon lens I have is for a 70's vintage Nikon F with the external interlock for the meter. That one doesn't have the features of this lens in question.

I only had a Minolta briefly in the early 70's, and it was a fixed lens...


Perhaps what the object lesson from this discussion should be...

Don't buy a third party lens without knowing exactly what camera it was for...
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Hahhaa... agreed, but it was $10 CAD and looks really clean. Plus it had a B+W filter on it as well! :)
 
If it looks like Sony, it is most likely a Minolta mount. Sony took over Minolta Camera division a few years ago. So Sony DSLRs are practically Minolta with Sony name on it. I had a Minolta A-1 camera (still have it) and when I had to send it for a recall repair, I sent it already to Sony.
Hope this will help.
 
mojo43 said:
Hahhaa... agreed, but it was $10 CAD and looks really clean. Plus it had a B+W filter on it as well! :)
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Here's a picture off the web for a Pentax lens. Note the position of the 'lever' slightly inside the lens 'barrel' area and
its relationship to one of the bayonet flanges... If it is a Pentax K mount lens, it would appear that it is a 'non-auto'
since the posted images don't have the little 'electronic connector' series of contacts on the outer edge of the mount,
as can be seen on the lens below.

(From: http://www.pentaxbody.com/pentax-lenses/pentax-15mm-f4-limited-full-review )



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This looks really close to what I have. I did notice that the vivitar lens that I have says auto. I think that I will have to bring this in to a shop to determine what the mount is. I want to purchase an adapter for it and I need to be sure. Thanks for all of the help!
 
j1clark was right...

Just got back from the camera shop. It is a Pentax K mount. It mounted on the Pentax K1000.

Thanks for all of the help!
 
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