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Re: [OM] Aperture Ring Mark question

Subject: Re: [OM] Aperture Ring Mark question
From: Tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2002 13:40:16 -0400
It's for zooms whose aperture changes, reducing at longer focal lengths. 
The mark indicates the smaller f/stop at the longest focal length.

tOM

On Friday, September 06, 2002 at 1:34, dreammoose <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote re "Re: [OM] Aperture Ring Mark questio" saying:

> That's what it looks like to me. It's not on all lenses, for example the 
> 75-150/4 doesn't have it and the '4' lines up with the index mark wide open.
> 
> Moose
> 
> Richard F. Man wrote:
> 
> > At 09:23 AM 9/6/2002 +0200, Harry wrote:
> >
> >> here is a question that has bothered me for some time, (though really
> >> nothing important). Over the years I have accummulated a number of prime
> >> Zuikos and two zooms. All lenses have this little white mark on the
> >> aperture ring at the highes aperture setting (i.e. 2,8) ?  Does any one
> >> know what it is supposed to indicate? couldnot find anything in the 
> >> archive
> >> on this..
> >
> > Assuming you don't mean a usage mark :-) but the little white line, I 
> > think it's to indicate the clickstop for the largest aperture. My 
> > guess is the stop between it and the next largest is very small so if 
> > they print the aperture number right on the click, it would bunch up 
> > to the next largest number.
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