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Subject: [OM] Re: I, Zuiko?
From: "Roger D. Key" <rdk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 17:35:32 +0200

A comment re the 24mm.

I have two early lens handbooks; one is dated IEMZLG.0173; the other,
earlier, where the date has unfortunately been torn off, is presumably
IEMZ1LG.0173.

Z1LG has the 400/4.5 and the 36mm long 24/2.8 with 9 elements; ZLG.0173 has
no 400/4.5, and a 31mm 24/2.8.

This means that Olympus already in Jan 1973 had determined that the  24/2.8
was an 8-element design (and that some of the other lenses from the first
Jan'73 catalogue would not be produced). So a 9-element 24/2.8 was probably
never produced, just like some other lenses in the manual (300/6.3,
400/4.5).

Roger Key



Julian Davies wrote:

>From the mess of information that is Pangerl vol 2 (1977)

18mm L Zuiko
Specs for the proposed lens (75mm dia)
Diagram of the 11 element production lens

24mm 2.8 H Zuiko
Specs are for a 9/7 (I Zuiko)!
Diagram is for an 8/7 as produced.

>From ZILG 0173 (the one with the 400/4.5)
BTW this lens is used in silhouette on the front page of the Telephoto
Group
right up until the format change in 79/80. Bit cheeky really.

18mm
listed as the proposed lens only, with diagram.

24mm /2.8
Listed as 9/7 36mm length

By 01/75 it had been changed to 8/7 and 31mm

Julian


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Scales" <tscales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2004 11:41 AM
Subject: [OM] Re: I, Zuiko?


>
> Ah, in the manual or in real life?  Is this one of the Olympus 'proposed'
> lenses or one they really made.
>
> I've had a number of very early 24/2.8 lenses pass through my hands and
have
> never seen an i.zuiko.
>
> Tom
>
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > >From: "CyberSimian" <OlySimian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > >My 24mm f2.8 is an H.ZUIKO (I just checked).  If you have an I.ZUIKO,
> there
> > >must have been two versions of the single-coated 24mm f2.8 with
different
> > >numbers of elements.  The serial number of mine is 174xxx.
> >
> > Most 24/2.8 zuikos (MC included) are 8-element designs, so the SC ones
are
> > marked H.ZUIKO. But I've got a very old (dated 0173) ZILG manual where
the
> > 24/2.8 is a 9-element design, thus marked I.ZUIKO. This lens was
> physically
> > longer (36mm vs. 31mm) than the 'later' type.
> >
> > ...
> >







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