I am probably one of the few people in the world who is happy to come across a cheap Vivitar point & shoot. Many times I have sorted through a pile of plastic cameras pulling out all the Vivitars. Maybe someday I will figure out why I am drawn to these cameras. However when I do I would guess that I will still be short of having an example of each camera, since the number of Vivitar camera names seem to be near infinity. The Vivitar TEC 45 is one of the more ambitious cameras from this group. It actually has some kind of auto focus mechanism and more than one aperture/shutter speed combination. When you push the shutter button half-way a green circle appears when the focus and exposure is set. There is a flash that pops up if there isn't enough light. All this is powered by one AA battery. Judging by the styling and the presence of DX encoding I guess this camera was sold in the early 1990's. I would like to say that I have found a hidden jewel in this camera, however I don't think that I did. Still the Vivitar TEC 45 is a competent camera. Probably very good for taking the family snapshots back in the day.
The Vivitar TEC 45 seems to be a very obscure camera. A search on Google returned no useful information. And a search on Flickr only gave one picture. That is probably the least amount of info that I have been able to find for a camera that I have written about.
Vivitar TEC 45 Gallery
We had two Vivitar Tec-35 cameras in the family; looks like the Tec-45 is a successor. I think they were the first autofocus cameras we used. Took good pictures and were nice to handle. One went bad after heavy use and I don't know about the other one. Thanks for posting on the Tec-45.
ReplyDeleteIt is a nice camera. I think there also is a TEC 55.
DeleteBy chance, I just found one of these while spring cleaning, tucked away in a box. It came with a bunch of other camera gear I got a while back and I guess I never checked this one out. Works fine... takes TWO AA batteries and two LR44 button cells.
ReplyDeleteI just got one at a thrift store for 90 cents. Functions. Haven't tried it with film yet. Vivitar made good quality products back in the day.
ReplyDeleteIs anyone here selling this camera by any chance? I'm in Europe and it seems nearly impossible to get the Tec 45 here.
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