Vivitar V3800N + Vivitar MC Macro 28-70mm F3.4-4.8

The Vivitar V3800N is the last K-mount manual SLR anyone made — built by Cosina and sold new into the 2010s, long after every Japanese maker had abandoned mechanical film bodies. It was the standard-issue camera in American college photography courses for a reason: fully mechanical, dead simple, and built around a shutter that runs from 1 second to 1/2000 without needing a single volt. Paired here with the Vivitar MC Macro 28-70mm f/3.4-4.8, a genuinely wide-to-portrait zoom with a close-focus macro setting.

Specifications

• Body: Vivitar V3800N — manual-focus, manual-exposure 35mm SLR, made by Cosina
• Shutter: Vertical-travel metal focal plane, 1s to 1/2000 + Bulb — runs without batteries
• Flash sync: 1/125 sec, hot shoe plus PC sync socket
• Viewfinder: Eye-level pentaprism, horizontal split-image with microprism collar
• Mount: Pentax K — takes any K-mount lens
• Lens: Vivitar MC Macro 28-70mm f/3.4-4.8 zoom with close-focus macro range
• Features: Depth-of-field preview, multiple-exposure capability
• Power: 2x LR44/SR44 button cells — for the meter circuit only

Condition

• Cosmetic: Very good. Some signs of age and use as shown in the photos. The lens glass is clean.
• Functional: Working mechanically — shutter, film advance, rewind and depth-of-field preview all operate correctly. The light meter reads permanently underexposed and should be treated as non-working. Use a handheld meter or a phone metering app.

Included

• Vivitar V3800N body
• Vivitar MC Macro 28-70mm f/3.4-4.8 lens
• UV filter

The meter on this one is dead, which matters less here than it would on most cameras — the V3800N's shutter is mechanical from 1 second to 1/2000, so nothing about the camera depends on that circuit. Meter with your phone, set the dials, and shoot. Very good cosmetics, a clean 28-70mm zoom, and a body that was still being manufactured within the last fifteen years.