NEW VIVITAR 35mm f3.5 Enlarging & Macro lens - for ANY camera - FILM or DIGITAL

Description

Here is a GREAT lens for just about ANY enlarger -- as well as a MACRO lens for just about any camera!
This is a Vivitar 35mm f3.5 lens -- perfect for enlarging a variety of film formats.  It covers
subminiature formats from 35mm half-frame (18x24mm), down to Tessina (14x21mm), and 13x17mm (Kiev), as well as 12x17mm (super Minolta), 110 (Instamatic), 14x14mm (Hit), and 10x14 (16mm).
The lens features a FAST f3.5 maximum aperture and click stops on each full f-stop to f16.  It's optimum magnification is 12X but it is perfectly at home with other magnifications.
Here are the features that photographers find useful:
It incorporates dual, f-stop scales -- one on each side of the lens for quicker, easier placement on the enlarger.
It also makes for easier f-stop selection on any lensboard.
The fast f3.5 aperture for easier and more accurate focusing -- than slower f4.0 lenses.
It has a recessed design -- so a recessed lens board is probably not needed -- as with many short focal length enlarging lenses.  Photo #4 shows the recessed design from the side and the third from the last photo shows this lens on a FLAT 4x4" Beseler enlarger board (NOT INCLUDED).
It's 39mm thread means it can be used on just about ANY enlarger!
It weighs 2.0 ounces, diameter is 42mm, length is 20mm.
But this Vivitar 35mm f3.5 lens actually has TWO uses.
While this lens was designed for enlarging work it also makes, like most enlarging lenses, a perfect macro/micro lens and can be used on any size film or digital camera with interchangeable lenses – from subminature / pocketable to large format sheet / panel cameras. Depending on your setup and the amount of extension that you have available, you can go from about 1:1 life size to about 30 times life size -- or higher!  The f3.5 maximum aperture produces a very bright image in the viewfinder / ground glass -- for EASY focusing, but like all lenses, it is best to stop down to about f8 during the exposure for the best possible resolution.  You might want to stop down even more to get more depth of field -- which is pretty darn thin at high magnifications.
But in order to use this lens as a micro or macro lens you will need a couple of things.  First, you will need a means of creating extension between the lens and your camera body.  This can be a bellows or a set of extension tubes -- or both!  If your camera has a TTL (Through the Lens) meter, like most do, it will do the necessary exposure correction for you -- or you can do it yourself.  Secondly, you will also need a Leica adapter to place this lens on your extension device.  Just about every camera company made Leica adapters -- so you can put this lens on a Nikon, Canon, Pentax, Konica, Panasonic, Minolta, Yashica, Maxxum, whatever -- even a SONY (see last two pictures).  It shows this 35mm lens on a Minolta bellows on a digital SLR (NOT included) -- with a simple Leica adapter (not included).  You can even put this on a medium or large format camera.
For more information on using enlarging lenses as macro lenses visit photocornucopia.
This lens, up for auction -- is a VIVITAR 35mm f3.5 lens.
It is NEW IN THE BOX.  I checked it out for cleanliness and complete operation.  It looks and acts PERFECTLY.
The glass is pristine -- no dust, fungus, separation, scratches, etc.  Please examine the pictures for more detail. No scratches of any sort on the body.  It is MINT.  The f-stop ring turns like new.  No oil on the diaphragm.  The detents are perfect and snap into place easily in the dark.
It comes in the original box.
It does NOT come with a lensboard or lock ring. You'll need to determine what you need for your enlarger and/or camera -- maybe you already have what you need.
So with this lens, you are really getting TWO lenses in one -- a great enlarging lens for the smaller film formats from half-frame down to Tessina down to 110 (12x17mm), 16mm (10x14mm) and even Minox.  IN ADDITION, you get a fabulous macro/micro lens for superb details of tiny subjects for film or digital cameras of ANY format.
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