-----Original Message-----
From: Keith (R.K.) Berry <keith_r.k.berry@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Monday, June 14, 1999 3:16 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] My lens passed
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: John Hudson <jahudson@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>
>>My recently acquired MC 50 / 1.8 Zuiko had a small adhesive oval shaped
>>decal [0.5" long and .25" wide] attached to the barrel. I says "Passed"
and
>>shows "JCII 55" and "JMDC" above and below the word passed
>>
>Just about anything photographic coming from Japan in the '60s and '70s
>seemed
>to carry these labels, signifying that either the item, or at least the
>design, had the
>approval of the Japanese Camera Inspection Institute. I always remove these
>stickers on sight after finding that the body of my old Pen F meter had
been
>badly corroded underneath one.
I shudder to think what the body might have been made of if no less than an
adhesive decal caused the material to corrode!
jh
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