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Vivitar Ultra Wide & Slim
Vivitar Ultra Wide & Slim
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Date: Apr 4, 2010
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/100
Date Uploaded: Apr 13, 2010

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 Vivitar Ultra Wide & Slim -- cheap plastic 35mm camera that would have been long forgotten had it not been for the bad idea of putting a super wide 22mm lens into it. Distortion, vignette and flare come for free.

One really annoying quirk (there are many) is that the film door is next to impossible to get open (notice the "handle" made of tape). I don't close it when it's not in use.

The camera is long discontinued and has kind of a cult following now. Paying $50 for one on eBay is not unheard of. When mine arrived, my initial response was, "This is it?!"

The images are a little softer than I'd like, but I am enjoying playing around with it. And shooting blind, as in, from the hip -- well, it's hard to miss.

//www.camerapedia.org/wiki/Vivitar_Ultra_Wide_&_Slim

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 04/14/2010 10:53:40 PM
And here is the current model for a mere 30 bucks... Ultra Wide & Slim revisited
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 04/13/2010 11:16:51 PM
Classy design for such a small and cheap camera - almost looks a bit like a disc camera.
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