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Subject: Re: [OM] 28-48mm f/4 S Zuiko variations? [was: [OM] Gary's lens test...]
From: "Paul D. Farrar" <farrar@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 20:29:39 -0500
I have 100645. What are you looking for?

Paul

At 12:18 PM 5/9/01 -0700, you wrote:
>Erwin V. wrote:
>
>>One of my favourite and highly under estimated lenses is the Zuiko
>28-48/4.
>>It is a lens that only gets B's in the SQF.
>
>Sorry about this, but I just uploaded (without changing the date, duh)
>my final Type I film tests, which includes OM-2S based tests of:
>28-48mm S Zuiko
>35mm f/2.8 MC
>24-48mm Tamron SP
>35-70mm f/4 S Zuiko (35 and 70mm only)
>
>You'll now find some A's for the 28-48mm, but you'll find very different
>(worse) distortion info. I think we should be on a quest for identifing
>two to three production versions of the 28-48mm - they might very well
>exist.  If confirmed, this might be another candidate for having been
>outsourced by Olympus.  It would help to start by reporting some
>physical comparisons of ones in the serial number ranges of:
>100,000 to 102,000
>107,000 to 110,000
>115,000 to 119,000
>Anyone want to look theirs over for us?
>
>As always, thanks to the lens lenders. I was sent other lenses to fill
>the gaps of lenses which had only had OM-1 based tests, but the film I
>bought turned out to be Type Fujichrome 64T II.
>
>I've wanted to "retire" the OM-1 based tests as problemmatic, but folks
>have written me in rebuttal. One problem might remotely be that I had
>mirror misalignment in one of the two bodies I used, although I never
>noticed anything with an infinity focus check. Rest assured, the OM-2S,
>OM-4, OM-4Ti based tests are on bodies that have passed bench
>examinations and are my workaday cameras. The OM-1 bodies are probably
>long gone.
>
>Quote for the day:
>Photography: it's a miracle it works as well as it does.
>
>Gary Reese
>Las Vegas, NV
>
>
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