The 85/2 is one of the really nice OM lenses.
I would pass on this lens. Stuff, if fungus, tends to remove the
coating and etch the glass. Plus why take a lens that has been taken
apart and reassembled by someone whose quality of work is unknown.
The move to multicoating sometimes involved improvements to the lens,
not just coatings. If you look at Gary Reese's site the multicoating
85/2 he tested resolved better than the single coating one.
http://members.aol.com/olympusom/lenstests/default.htm
I would be patient. One will turn up.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On Oct 25, 2006, at 5:04 PM, Michael Darling wrote:
> I may have an opportunity to pick up a silver nose 85/2 F. Zuiko.
> While I was looking it over I saw some "stuff" on the inside of the
> rear element, so they're sending it out for cleaning. Asking price
> was $200, but at least I've got some bargaining points if the
> cleaning doesn't completely fix it. I see the KEH price, Skips ebay
> values, etc. Nothing recent on ebay. What would y'all throw at a lens
> like this? Or would you wait for a later MC version? Admittedly, I'm
> just looking for the speed (and i hear the bokeh is nice too), but I
> can be patient. Moving from 2.8 to 2.0 isn't a huge deal to me... But
> smaller is nicer :D
>
> -mike in Nj
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