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Subject: Re: [OM] 200/4
From: Steven_Read@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 21:35:23 -0400

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From:     Steven Read/CAM/Lotus @ NOTES@ALPHABETA
Date:     07/16/99 09:35:23 PM

It's almost certainly multicoated and probably has a description like "OLYMPUS
OM-SYSTEM ZUIKO AUTO-T 200mm 1:4 260***".  Your 260*** fits in nicely with the
change from explicitly labeled MC to assumed MC as below.
 200     4        117945 Chrome  SC  No   E.ZUIKO AUTO-T 1:4 f=200mm sn Japan
 200     4        163969 Chrome  SC  No   E.ZUIKO AUTO-T 1:4 f=200mm sn Japan
 200     4        183100 Black   MC  Yes  ZUIKO MC AUTO-T 1:4 f=200mm sn Japan
 200     4        220600 Black   MC  Yes  ZUIKO MC AUTO-T 1:4 f=200mm sn Japan
 200     4        260554 Black   MC  No   ZUIKO AUTO-T 200mm 1:4 sn
 200     4        293050 Black   MC  No   ZUIKO AUTO-T 200mm 1:4 sn

As to opinion's purely subjectively I like my 200/5 better than my 200/4 but end
up never carrying either 'cause I like the 180/2.8 and the 300/4.5 a lot, tend
to carry those and thus always leave the 200's out of the bag.  Of course my
200's are SC YMMV ;-)

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From:  Doug Cooper <visigoth@xxxxxxxxxxx> @ ALPHABETA

Hi all!  Just traded an old N*kk*r 105/2.5 for a near mint Zuiko 200/4.  I
*think* I see a hint of green in the coating, but it doesn't say MC.
(Serial number 260*** -- anyone know if this is multi-coated?)

I'm wondering what the consensus is regarding this lens, or whether there
even is one.  The tests seem all over the map.  Some seem to think it's a
great lens, even hand-held; Mr. Reese seems to have decided you have to
nail it down to a support to really get decent results.  (Although the new
test results are pretty impressive, it seems; holds its own with the
180, at some apertures.)

And what about the 2xA converter?  Someone in the archives suggested you
could *hand-hold* it with the converter attached!  That would be
something:  a 400mm lens that didn't require a tripod...


In short, I'm wondering what I've bought.



cheers,


Doug


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