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Re: [OM] Inside the Zuiko 300mm F4.5

Subject: Re: [OM] Inside the Zuiko 300mm F4.5
From: John Hermanson <omtech1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:04:36 -0500
I knew someone would suggest that as a joke.  NO, I waiting to hear from 
the customer to arrange return shipment.
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Dawid Loubser wrote:
> Ouch! (about that 250/2.0). You didn't happen to recently sell this  
> guy's
> dud 250/2.0 for him on your website now, did you? ;-)
> 
> 
> 
> [only kidding, your reputation is beyond reproach]
> 
> 
> 
> On 10 Nov 2009, at 5:52 PM, John Hermanson wrote:
> 
>> Ouch. I'm happy to say that all the 300s I've come in contact with  
>> have
>> not been glued.  Perhaps the ones I say at Olympus trying the patience
>> of the techs were an anomaly.  Speaking of lens defects....that  
>> reminds
>> me that about a month ago, a customer in Norway sent me his 250 f2 due
>> to sticky focus ring and poor focus issues.  I put the lens on my test
>> OM-2 and tried to focus out the back window.  Focusing wide open on a
>> reasonably flat plane (a row of flat bushes) only a central circle was
>> sharp.  The worlds most expensive "lens baby" ?   The only defect I  
>> can
>> come up with is that it has a separated element which makes the lens
>> "beyond repair" (no parts available, and the elements were super
>> expensive when they were available).
> 
> 
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