In a message dated 9/5/2003 10:43:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time, md@xxxxxxxxxxxx
writes:
> It has been painted black, and it looks like a rather poor job as well.
> Take a look at the hood just above the knurled grip. That's where the
> engravings identifying the lens are located. On this lens they've been
> painted over and left that way, on a real black lens they would be white.
> I guess it was too much trouble for them to "do it right" so they cheated
> and didn't bother with the engravings. I guess that's why the distance
> scale is still white. It makes you wonder what else they
> did to the lens.
Am I the only one who noticed that none of the pictures of this lens shows any
glass? Buyer Beware.
Paul Schings
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