The tooling is for different cameras I believe. You can reve4rse the
zoom and focus directions on a manual focus camera as they are not
coupled to the body. The aperature has to match the camera body
direction because it is coupled.
I would geuss that the B&H photo is of the same lens, but for a Nikon or
other mount.
Jim Couch
Moose wrote:
>How interesting!! I didn't remember mine having an aperture that went
>the other way. Surely I would have noticed. So I got it out of the bag.
>And it doesn't!!
>
>I have in front of me a Vivitar Series 1 19-35/3.5-4.5 lens.
>The front is the same as the front in the Vivitar pic posted below.
>The barrel is identical to the picture of the Phoenix including the
>direction of aperture ring movement and right down to rubber ring
>pattern and color of all the markings. The only exception is it doesn't
>have the added green "A" to the left of the "22", and button to the left
>of that and has different, shiny chrome part immediately behind the
>aperture ring. I believe these differences a simply because it is for a
>different camera mount.
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>In any case, it is a Vivitar and the aperture ring works the same as on
>a Zuiko.
>
>What's going on with the B&H photo I sure don't know, but I can't
>believe they would tool up to produce 2 different aperture ring
>directions just to rebrand, especially after selling at least one that
>is the same. I'll sent pics to any serious sceptics.
>
>Moose
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