American manufacturer, distributor, and marketer of photographic and optical equipment
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Vivitar
A new and updated Vivitar logo unveiled in 2016.
Founded
1938; 86 years ago (1938) (as Ponder and Best by Max Ponder and John Best) Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Founders
Max Ponder John Best
Products
Camera and photographic accessories
Parent
Sakar International
Website
vivitar.com
Vivitar Corporation is a manufacturer, distributor, and marketer of photographic and optical equipment originally based in Santa Monica, California.[citation needed] Since 2008, the Vivitar name serves as Sakar International's house brand for digital imaging, optics, mobile accessories, and audio products.[citation needed]
Vivitar Corporation is a manufacturer, distributor, and marketer of photographic and optical equipment originally based in Santa Monica, California.[citation...
for Vivitar, a U.S. lens distributor of after-market film lenses for 35mm cameras. However, after the positive reception from consumers on Vivitar Series...
IMAX Kaiser Fototechnik Kiev-Arsenal Kino Precision (makers of Kiron and Vivitar Series 1 lenses) Kenko (part of KenkoTokina Corporation) Kodak Kowa Krasnogorsky...
in the 1960s). The company also seems to have had an association with Vivitar (the T4 interchangeable mount, for instance). The company is currently...
national commercial advertising campaigns, such as Coca-Cola, M&M's, KFC, Vivitar Camera, Minute Maid Orange Juice, and portrayed Chrissy Roberts in the...
Minolta, Olympus, Petri Camera, Ricoh, and Yashica. Distributors such as Vivitar and Revue often sold rebranded versions of these cameras. While designed...
camera models, including the Minolta 7SII, Revue 400 SE, Prinz 35 ER, and Vivitar 35 ES. In 1982, Cosina began to manufacture lenses in a variety of SLR...
caps at 720p. ViviCam IU680 smart lens camera from Sakar-owned brand, Vivitar, announced in 2014. Olympus Air A01 lens camera, announced in 2014 and...
She has also appeared in television commercials for Wanda, McDonald's, Vivitar and Island Fun Barbie. She has appeared in magazine covers for Canada's...
JVC TD1, DXG-5G2V, VTech Kidizoom 3D, GoPro HD Hero kit 3D, Nintendo 3D, Vivitar 790 HD (only for anaglyph stills and video), and AEE 3D Magicam. 40 mm...
of M42-equipped cameras to mount lenses from Zeiss, Yashica, Soligor, Vivitar, Topcon, Sigma, Chinon, and many more as well as Asahi's own highly regarded...
500 mm 1:8 and 1000 mm 1:11. Smaller companies such as Tamron, Samyang, Vivitar, and Opteka also offered several versions, with the three latter of these...
An articulating screen is a built-in small electronic visual display which is not fixed, but rather can be repositioned using a hinge or pivot. The articulating...
Photo System. Kodak licensed the manufacture of Kodak branded cameras to Vivitar in 2006. Kodak purchased a concept for a slide projector from Italian-American...
Spirotone, Tempora (veterinary), Uractone, Uractonum, Verospiron, and Vivitar. Spironolactone is also formulated in combination with a variety of other...
variety of different brand names. Some examples are Rokinon, Bower, Opteka, Vivitar, Phoenix and Quantaray. Autofocus lenses:[better source needed] For Canon...
"Yet Another Buyer Sets Its Sights on Vivitar". LA Times. Archived from the original on 2021-05-06. in 1985, [Vivitar] was bought by Hanimex Group, an Australian...
Doris Day). In the mid-1960s, Joel saved money from mowing lawns to buy a Vivitar Super 8 camera. Together, the brothers remade movies they saw on television...
using the Lightning connector port. Vivicam smart lens camera series from Vivitar/Sakar, announced in 2014. HTC RE HTC also announced an external camera...
to improve them were ongoing. In 1974, the Ponder & Best (Opcon/Kino) Vivitar Series 1 70-210mm f/3.5 Macro Focusing Zoom (USA/Japan) was widely hailed...
Nikon AF-S teleconverter TC-14E II Nikon teleconverter 2,0x for Z-mount Vivitar 2X zoom teleconverter, basically a zoom extension tube A different type...