Frank van Lindert wrote:
>
> >
> One more tip, unasked but maybe welcome...
>
> I used to find it difficult to see if a camera or lens part was made
> out of plastic or metal. I found a way, by pure coincidence: you can
> easily feel rather than look what it is with... your lips.
>
> Metal feels cool or cold and plastic feels much warmer.
> Try the OM-10 (this is what reminded me of it) and slowly shift your
> lip from the main bottom plate to the battery cover - and you will
> understand what I mean.
Jeez, Frank, this is worse than the Starr report on Clinton! <G> (Do
you have a pet name for your OM-10?? <g>)
>
> With 50/1.8 lenses you could find out even in complete darkness
> whether you had the old model (SC?) or the newer (MC?) by just
> pressing your lips to the aperture ring....
>
> Now that I come to think of it - I guess it would be wise to have the
> testing room either in darkness or very private - maybe people would
> start thinking strange things when they watch you kissing a Zuiko...
> And what will happen when you have to explain that this is your way to
> tell if a lens is multi- or single-coated....
>
> Frank van Lindert
> Utrecht NL.
>
--
george :>)
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