Many of the older silver trimmed filter rings will not fit newer MC barrels and
vice versa.
John
Camtech
John Austin wrote:
> > From: "james olson"
> > a few questions for anyone to answer: on the front of the zuiko lenses,
> > the very front of the barrel is either silver or black. i have heard
> > that the silver front barrel denotes an earlier lens, but does this
> > affect whether the lens is MC or not? i have the 24/2 with the silver
> > front, but it is MC... and some lenses that appear to have been made
> > later have the black front barrel, but do not advertise MC on the
> > front..... is their any method to this?
>
> This is indeed a confusing issue. The original series of lenses for the OM-1
> were produced with the silver front barrell. When the OM-2 came out in 1975,
> the barrell front was officially changed to black. Apparently, however,
> Olympus had a large stock of silver front barrells left over. This means
> that there is really no method to the madness and the the two colors were
> used interchangibly until the late 70's when the stock of silver barrells
> was finally depleted. As far as multi-coating, the word according to Olympus
> America is that if the lens is labled F. ZUIKO,
> G. ZUIKO, etc., the lens is single coated. If the lens is labled ZUIKO MC or
> just plain ZUIKO, the lens is multicoated. Just another chapter in the
> Olympus saga.
>
> Regards,
> John Austin
> Oakland, CA
>
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