My 16mm 3.5 is simply marked "Zuiko" and is multicoated.
John
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From: Hans van Veluwen <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 6:25 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] lens markings
> : 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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