Looks to me that two of the mounts are Canon FD mounts (breech mount). The "Focal" lens is a K-Mart lens from the 80s. The only high quality Vivitar lenses I know of were the "series 1." I really wouldn't worry too much about the quality of the adapters you'll buy, get the cheapest. I own Rainbow Imaging and Fotodiox adapters and they all work well. Fotodiox has gone up in price for their adapters, like around $40usd and up. RI adapters can be had for around $20 and there's no quality difference between these two brands that I can see. Make sure you get an adapter that has the ring for changing quickly between wide open aperture and your chosen shooting aperture because it's easier to focus wide open, not closed down, and you don't want to have to look at the aperture ring to change to the shooting aperture after you've finished focusing.
More important than the adapter would be your camera's viewfinder and your eyesight. An EVF really comes in handy with legacy lenses since you have to manually focus them. An EVF can greatly enlarge the view allowing very accurate focusing, or a camera with focus peaking. Unless you like a soft look and halation (which can give interesting results), I think third party lenses are not worth the cost, no matter how cheap. Better to spend your money on eg a Canon FD 50mm f1.4 which is pretty sharp, renders beautiful colors and can be had for around $60 on flea bay. Make sure you get an C-FD lens with the SSC coating (super spectra). Older C-FD SSC lenses will be marked as such, but the later FD-n lenses will not have this marking but all are of the SSC type. I also got a 135mm FD for $25.
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