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Re: [OM] How many aperture blades on 50mm f1.2

Subject: Re: [OM] How many aperture blades on 50mm f1.2
From: "John A. Prosper" <prosper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 16:39:14 -0500 (EST)
On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, John A. Lind wrote:

|At 05:33 2/9/00 , Buddy wrote:
|>Hi Alex and John,
|>Maybe we've found another fluke.  Double checking again as I type, my 50mm
|>f1.2 serial#11205* definitely has 8 flat sides.  In my book that ='s 8
|>blades if flat sides means the same as blades.
|>Anyone else with a shortage of blades?
|>Buddy
|
|Confession:
|Took the information off of the table on Paul Farrar's site without looking
|at my 50/1.2:
|  http://www.datasync.com/~farrar/zuiko.html
|
|I have 50/1.2 S/N 11365* and it's missing a blade too!  Just pulled up
|Paul's table and it now shows 8 blades in the table (updated 02/08/00; a
|fixed typo?).  Should have known better and remembered this photo.  You can
|_clearly_ see how many blades it has on my web site in this photo taken
|using the 50/1.2!
|  http://members.xoom.com/_XMCM/johnlind/olympus/olympusgallery/om20.html
|
|Mea culpa; sorry Buddy.

You mean I would have to work with only eight blades!?!  I feel
positively bokeh-less!!! ;-D


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