Yes, there's a fair amount of plastic in that 35-70.
John Hermanson
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----- Original Message -----
From: Timpe, Jim <Jim.Timpe@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 11:18 AM
Subject: RE: [OM] The 40 mm f2 on ebay for last day
| I know that at least the very front piece of even some of your venerated
| favorites is plastic. Take a close look at your 35-70 3.5-4.5 if you have
| one. The front element is held by a plastic cylinder. Don't know if any
of
| the other parts of that particular lens are plastic or not, but I don't
| believe that most of the aperture rings I've seen are anodized. An anodic
| coating doesn't generally leave that dark a hue of black. I'm sure John
| will set us all straight shortly.
|
| Jim Timpe
| Fluke Customer Support Services
| 1420 75th Street SW
| Everett, WA 98203
| 1.800.753.5853
|
|
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Jim Couch [mailto:spknsprkt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
| Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 7:39 AM
| To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| Subject: Re: [OM] The 40 mm f2 on ebay for last day
|
|
| 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.
| >
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