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Re: [OM] OM Zuiko 85mm f2

Subject: Re: [OM] OM Zuiko 85mm f2
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 21:33:46 -0800
On 1/27/2013 9:13 PM, Wayne Harridge wrote:
> I presume the floating element is only changed with focus and not aperture.

How are we to know, without taking one of each version apart enough to see how 
they work? John might know, if he had 
occasion to work deep inside one, but likely not.

> I mounted my 85/2 (s/n 2055xx, black nose, MC, so I presume 5/4 version) on
> my E-P1 and took a series of shots between f2 and f16 and couldn't see any
> obvious difference apart from the change in DOF.

Gary's tests of both versions don't show any such effect, either, with no 
backsliding from f2.8 to f4.

Imagination, early version, malfunctioning moving mechanism?

Imaginative Vision Moose

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