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[OM] Re: Unrecognised Zuiko zoom spotted

Subject: [OM] Re: Unrecognised Zuiko zoom spotted
From: Mark Dapoz <md@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 08:45:39 -0400 (EDT)
On Tue, 3 May 2005 iwert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> This seems genuine enough. What is strange is the serial, prototypes are
> normally in the 1000XX range, not like this one, in the 102XXX range. So
> maybe a whole batch of say 2000 was made, but never sold. A few left the
> package before destruction?

It doesn't look like a prototype in the true sense of the word.  This looks
more like a production version, the serial number is very high and it has the
plant/date code stamped on the mount.  Since this lens did appear in some of
the Olympus brochures, I suspect the lens was actually marketed and then killed
very early on.  It's still a rare lense, but hardly a prototype.
                                        -mark


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