INTRODUCTION

The Vivitar Ultra Wide and Slim is a cheap point and shoot 35mm film camera made around 2008. This camera was available under many other brand names.

BEST SUITED FOR:

Travel

Street

Lomography

Fun!

PERSONAL NOTES

The Vivitar Ultra Wide and Slim is a simple camera to use, and is very compact for a 35mm film camera.

It has a wide angle lens, a 22mm, so it's quite easy to do "shoot from the hip" street photo with it, but being a plastic lens, there are also a lot of lens flare.

I had a huge quantity of these for cheap and sold them at a nice profit. I just wanted one, but as I had many, I also was able to experiment a lot with them.

For example, this photo, even if it's far from being a chef d'oeuvre, is still interesting for the eye, with its soft background. The emphasis is well done on the subject, with the use of vignette and shallow depth of field.

To produce this result, I modified a Vivitar camera which has a 22mm f11 fix focus lens. I've disassembled the camera and permanently modified the aperture to f3.5. By doing so, I changed the depth of field. Like all fix focus lenses, it's adjusted to the hyperfocal distance. Here I've caculated it to be 4.75 feet. Depth of field is from around 3 feet to infinity. By modifying the aperture, I've changed the depth of field which is now from 4 feet to 6 feet. Before and after that, it's out of focus, or really soft like here. This is an example of the technical side helping the artistic side...

CONCLUSION

The Vivitar Ultra Wide and Slim is a nice low fi camera to experiment with, but do not pay too much for one.

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