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Re: [OM] plastic beater lens

Subject: Re: [OM] plastic beater lens
From: Jim Brokaw <jbrokaw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 15:05:04 -0700
Looks like a nice score... might even qualify as a Fang. Don't disparage
these 'all-plastic' lenses too much until you shoot some pictures...

While I would expect the images won't be up to the Zuiko 35-80/2.8 you might
be surprised. And you can buy ~2000 of these for the price of one Zuiko
35-80/2.8...! The mechanicals and body of any lens serve to hold the
elements in alignment, and move them as necessary, that's it. For as long as
they do that, the optical performance of the lens can be OK... of course a
plastic lens won't hold the optics perfectly aligned for as long as well as
an all-metal lens will, and maybe not as perfectly... but possibly 'good
enough'.

One of these lenses mounted on an OM-10 (or OM-G or OM-PC) seems like the
perfect "keep in the car, handy all the time" kind of camera. So what will
you do with the other two...?

I bet we can get a good two-week thread out of the question "What kind of
film should I keep in my 'handy all-the-time camera...?" <g>
-- 

Jim Brokaw
OM-1's, -2's, -4's, (no -3's yet) and no OM-oney...


on 9/28/02 5:11 PM, Wayne Culberson at waynecul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I picked up these on epay recently. I thought maybe I could disect them and
> learn something, and maybe salvage a few screws I need, like the little ones
> that stop a lens from mounting on too far. Also I thought I might salvage
> one for a beater zoom lens, like when you want to mount one on a beater body
> to throw in the canoe. It turned out all 3 were quite easily repaired, work
> perfectly, and look like new except for the one missing the cosmetic ring on
> front. Now what do I do with 3 beater zoom lenses?
> But I did learn something, "Don't even think of giving up your metal Zuikos
> for new all plastic lenses!" This was my first time for working on a plastic
> lens. Definitely not near the quality. Are the plastic name brand lenses any
> better built than these? I'm also suspecting the newer plastic camera bodies
> are similar??
> http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1380406306&ed=1032315469&s
> 
> Wayne


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