While the majority equipment bore the 'Vivitar' name alone, several variants were also used over the years: the earliest lenses bear the label 'P & B Vivitar'. But in 1964, after losing Rollei and Olympus distribution rights, Ponder & Best decided to come up with their own brand and rebadge the equipment they sold. Initially, Ponder & Best pursued relationships with major camera equipment manufacturers including Mamiya, Olympus, Rollei, Voightlander, Sawyers, Petri and others, becoming the United States distributor for companies in Japan and Germany. The buildings at these two location no longer exist, only a vacant lot remains as of 2012. Advertising from November 1949 indicates P&B moved or expanded to an adjacent location at 1230 S. In the 1940s through at least 1946, Ponder & Best was located at 1015 S. Best wrote invoices from the back seat while Ponder acted as the saleman and retrieved merchandise from the trunk. The pair started out selling photographic equipment from a 1936 Oldsmobile. Ponder and Best fled to the United States from Germany after Hitler rose to power. Originally founded as Ponder & Best, Inc., the company was established in Santa Monica, California in 1938 as a distributor of photographic products by the German immigrants Max Ponder (b. 3.14 Kino Precision Diamond Rubber Ring Familyīill Swinyard (left), P&B Product Managerĭick Wolf (rear) who left P&B to found Kiron.3.10 Tokina TX Interchangeable Mount 2nd Generation Family.3.9 Tokina TX Interchangeable Mount 1st Generation Family.3.8 Cosina Diamond Rubber Ring M42 Kit Lens Family.3.7 Komine Black Metal Ridged-Ring Family.

3.6 Tokina T-4 Interchangeable Mount Family.3.4 Kino Precision Black Metal Ridged-Ring Family.3.1.5 Compatible T System Mount Adapters.3.1.4 Compatible T System Type 4 (Norita).3.1.3 Compatible T System Type 3 aka 'Pyramid Preset' (Kino Precision).3.1.1 Compatible T System Type 1 (Tokina).2.1.1 Interchangeable Lens 35mm Cameras.

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