: The upshot is that "X.Zuiko" lenses, for whatever letter X, are always
: single-coated. "Zuiko MC" lenses are always multocoated. But a lens
: marked only "Zuiko" can be either singlecoated or multicoated.
Does anyone know if any of the lenses 18mm/f3.5 L.Zuiko, 21mm/f2 K.Zuiko,
24mm/f2
J.Zuiko, 28mm/f2 I.Zuiko and 35mm/f2 H.Zuiko were ever produced and marketed
with
this X.Zuiko designation? I ask because Franz Pangerl's "The World of
OM-Systems"
(2nd edition, 1977) specifically mentions these lenses as being multicoated...
In
the Sales Information File 10/79 they all appear labeled as MC lenses, but still
with a silver nose (so this assumed correlation is certainly not true).
Pangerl also mentions the 135mm/f2.8 E.Zuiko and 200mm/f4 E.Zuiko as
multicoated,
btw, and I know that at least the first one was marketed as such because I own
one, and I also own one that is labelled MC, and the reflections and thus the
coatings of both lenses are certainly different: yellowish/brownish vs.
purplish/magenta. No green to be seen ;) The assumption that multicoatings are
supposed to be greenish also doesn't seem to be true. The group photo in The OM
System Lens Handbook (10/85) on page 104 shows all kinds of colours: yellow,
brown, green, red, purple. No two lenses have identical reflections.
H@nz
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