Hi all:
I've updated Frank's excellent post on multicoated lenses (see below).
Does anyone out there have Oly literature that fills in the year gaps?
If so, I'm interested in narrowing down the "1st Multicoating" refs and
"last mentioned" refs. To determine what year and month your Oly lit
was issued, look on the back cover. There will be some number/letter
group in the lower right hand corner like: C20E-1285D. This represents
a System Manual from December 1985.
Cheers,
--Lee
Thanks to: lindertv@xxxxxxx (Frank van Lindert)
[Ed. Note: I have updated Frank's original post
based on some Oly System Handbooks that I have --RLH]
I hereby re-post a contribution of 1996/7/17 on the subject of
multi-coating:
I tried to compare MC data of all Zuiko lenses I know of
from some booklets issued by Olympus. They are Manuals for
the Zuiko Interchangeable Lens Group (MZILG) as packed
with bodies in earlier times, body manuals with lists of
all available lenses at time of publication in them, and the
Olympus Lens Handbook.
Dates of issue (month and year):
01-74 Manual for OM-1 (my first, the only one I ever bought new)
10-74 MZILG packed with OM-1 above
07-78 MZILG
01-79 Manual OM-2
10-80 Manual OM-10 Q
02-81 Manual OM-10
01-82 Manual same OM-10 in French
04-82 MZILG
04-84 Olympus System Handbook
12-84 Olympus System Chart
10-85 Olympus Lens Handbook
12-85 Olympus System Handbook
10-92 Olympus System Handbook
In next table I give date of first appearance and date of
first mentioning 'MC' respectively
1st: MC: comment:
8/2.8 10-74 never
16/3.5 10-74 01-82
18/3.5 10-74 01-79
20/2.0 macro 04-84 04-84
20/3.5 macro 01-74 01-79 last mentioned 04-82
21/2.0 01-79 01-79
21/3.5 01-74 01-82
24/2.0 01-74 10-78
24/2.8 01-74 01-82
24/3.5 shift 04-84 04-84
28/2.0 01-74 10-78
28/2.8 02-81 02-81
28/3.5 01-74 never last mentioned 02-81
35/2.0 01-74 10-78
35/2.8 01-74 01-82
35/2.8 shift 01-74 10-85
38/2.8 macro 04-84 04-84
38/3.5 macro 01-74 01-79 last mentioned 04-82
40/2.0 04-84 04-84
50/1.2 04-84 04-84
50/1.4 01-74 10-80
50/1.8 01-74 10-80
50/2.0 macro 10-85 10-85
50/3.5 macro 01-74 10-78
55/1.2 01-74 never
80/4.0 macro 01-74 01-79
85/2.0 01-74 01-79
90/2.0 macro 10-85 10-85
100/2.0 04-84 04-84
100/2.8 01-74 01-82
135/2.8 01-74 10-78
135/3.5 01-74 10-85 indeed, the lens handbook says MC
135/4.5 macro 10-80 10-80
180/2.0 10-85 10-85
180/2.8 01-79 01-79
200/4.0 10-74 10-78
200/5.0 01-74 01-82 last mentioned 04-82
250/2.0 04-84 04-84
300/4.5 01-74 01-82
350/2.8 04-84 04-84
400/6.3 01-74 01-79
500/8.0 reflex 04-84 04-84
600/6.5 01-74 01-79
1000/11.0 01-74 01-79
28-48/4.0 04-84 04-84 last mentioned 12-85
28-85/3.5-4 - - this lens was only mentioned in
Olympus leaflet. Was it ever built
apart from the AF version?
35-70/3.5-4.5 10-85 10-85
35-70/3.6 01-79 01-79
35-70/4.0 02-81 02-81 last mentioned 12-85
35-70/4.0 AF 04-84 04-84 last mentioned 12-85
35-80/2.8 - - built later than covered by my books
35-105/3.5-4.5 04-84 04-84
50-250/5.0 10-92 10-92
65-200/4.0 04-84 04-84
75-150/4.0 01-74 10-85 last mentioned 12-85
85-250/5.0 01-79 01-79 last mentioned 12-85
100-200/5.0 04-84 04-84 last mentioned 12-85
1.4x teleconv 04-84 04-84
2x teleconv 04-82 04-82
Please note that the dates must not be considered as starting (or
ending) dates of issue or MC feature. The time gaps between the
booklets I own are too wide for that. Maybe we can narrow the gaps?
If we only had a list of serial numbers and corresponding
dates of manufacturing...
I already corrected some obvious mistakes of the lens handbook myself.
Maybe I even missed a lens altogether...
Frank.
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