My 85/2 is Multicoated, its one of them that is black nose, marked MC. I got
to handle a newer one that Is one of the ones where the MC designation was
dropped and the front ring just says japan, so that would have been a
multicoated one too. The coatings were totally different in color, with the
newer lens having a deep purple color to the coatings.
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On 8/8/09 11:48 PM, "Moose" <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> If I recall correctly, those were the days of peering deep into the lens
> looking at reflection colors. Wasn't the "MC" column to be a judgment
> based on observation of the coating themselves? Others, and I to a
> limited extent, have noticed that the coatings changed character with
> later production within both SC & MC. This may have been a late version
> of mostly single coating with a different formula and/or a multiple
> coating or two that fooled the eye.
>
>
> Looks like a misunderstanding of the naming conventions on the part of
> the one reporting. As the eSIF says and msot of us have observed, "Once
> multicoating was so self-evident, that all lenses were produced
> multicoated, the MC addition was also dropped and the lenses only
> contained the word ZUIKO."
>
> Moose
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