At 07:20 PM 8/31/99 EDT, you wrote:
>Multicoating was a great advance that allowed the design of multiple element
>zooms lens. Many zooms have over 10 elements and with each surface causing
>some loss of contrast, the accumulated effect would have yielded an unusable
>zoom lens. However, with a simple prime lens and smaller apertures, the
>necessity of multicoating is much less important. I would venture to state
>that with your lens a proper hood is much more important than the use or not
>of multicoating.
> As you stated "The[y] seem to work just fine."
>
thanks. I have a metal hood for the 28mm. does the 50mm need a hood??
Be seeing you.
Dirk Wright
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