This provoked me to check mine - E.Zuiko, no green reflections, yeah, it's
SC. And I paid a whole TWENTY DOLLARS for that lens...........<g>
Gary Edwards
Gary Reese wrote:
> Joseph writes:
>
> << I do think that no multicoated 135/3.5's were made, but that is a
> difficult
> thing to prove-- they could just be rare. >>
>
> It isn't hard to prove. Just see:
> http://brashear.phys.appstate.edu/lhawkins/photo/multicoat.txt
> which is reasonably close on dates.
>
> The MC version was first mentioned in an even earlier edition (1984) of
> the Olympus OM System Lens Handbook. It was last mentioned in the 10-92
> Olympus System Handbook, thus it had an 8 year production run, albeit
> over a period when, for the most part, sales declined. Which is why it
> is harder to find MC variants of most lenses . . .
>
> Gary Reese
> Las Vegas, NV
>
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