You are wrong there Skip. I have in my hot little hand one of the hard
leather cases marked for the 50/1.4. Have seen very, very few of them but
there are a few around.
Barry H
At 02:06 PM 10/22/04 -0400, you wrote:
>
>I don't think that any of the non-macro 50mm lenses every came with cases.
In fact, my 50/2 Macro, bought new, only came in a soft leather bag, no
case. Were they offered in the catalog as an after-order item?
>
>Skip
>
>
>----- Original Message ---------------
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>Subject: [OM] Re: OM lens cases cracking and shedding leather
> From: jking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:35:40 +0100 (BST)
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>
>>
>>>
>>> My experience is consistant with yours. The older lens cases seem to be in
>>> better condition. Also the cases that olympus used for their large filters
>>> seem to be pretty bad. I got one from Olympus yaBe that was sticky, and
>>> left
>>> black goo on anything in contact with it. Olympus probably used a
>>> different
>>> subcontractor for the newer cases. The old and newer ones sure seem to age
>>> differently judging by the few I have. I've also seen some old Vivitar
>>> Series 1 cases that are worse - they develope a not so lovely cracked
>>> finish
>>> with age.
>>
>>Glad its not just me hatching some kind of conspiracy theory...
>>Also why are the 50mm F1.8 hard lens cases so rare?
>>Is it that the lens was so cheap it was not worth buying a hardcase?
>>
>>
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