The aperture rings are not painted, but rather anodized, whcih is why you can
remove the colored paint without removing the underlying black color. I think
most of the lenses are anodized after being engraved. The 'silver nosed'
versions may not be though.
Frank van Lindert wrote:
> I own an old Zuiko of which the coloured lettering came off by itself,
> due to age and wear, but under it there was no black paint left - only
> plain aluminium.
> Since then I have always thought that the engraving of the lettering
> took place after the black paint had been applied. Am I wrong?
> It seems a bit odd that you can 'erase' the orange foot-scale with the
> black paint remaining in place, when ordinary wear takes away both
> paint layers at the same time...
>
> Frank van Lindert
> Utrecht Holland.
>
> On Mon, 09 Oct 2000 12:53:09 GMT, "Lex Jenkins"
> <lexjenkins@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >Probably scraped it out with a toothpick. Might have moistened the
> >toothpick tip with acetone.
> >
> >I may try this on a 50/1.8 so people will think I'm Euro-hip.
> >-----------
> >Lex Jenkins
> >---------------------------------------------------------------------
> >2b XOR -2b ... that's the equation - Ur Amblet, 'The Very Bad Quarto'
> >=====================================================================
> >>From: "Chris O'Neill" <coneill@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 08:49:38 -0600
> >>
> >>Erased??? Not that *I* would ever want to do that, I wonder how the
> >>original owner accomplished that?
> >>
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