I have contemplated the whole silver rims/black rims business before,
usually when standing in front of a display case of pre-owned Zuikos.
When did Oly change form silver rims to black rims? My 35-70 is black
rimmed and my 75-150 is silver rimmed.
Steve
>>
>Just when the doctor thought I could go off the Prozac...
>
>Recently I lamented about discovering that several of my prized lenses
were
>SC. It was such a distressing thing knowing that I had INFERIOR lenses
(or
>is it leneses) that I almost threw away 12,000 pictures. I didn't know
if I
>could go on or not. Well, after a healthy dose of laying on funny
couches
>and a chemical induced stuper I had been able to accept the fact that I
was
>duped into buying these awefull things, and that it wasn't my fault but
that
>of the "system". In fact, Ronald Reagan became a good scape goat for
my
>misplaced anger. That's right, Ronald Reagan's tax cuts allowed me to
buy
>more lenses which just happened to be SINGLE COATED!
>
>Now, just when it became safe to go into the water again...
>
>In a recent discussion we all learned that the silver-rimmed lenses are
even
>lower than low. I thought, I'm glad my SC lenses have black rims.
They may
>be inferior, but at least they aren't silver-rimmed.
>
>Yup, you guessed it. I unscrewed the lens hoods and filters and,...
and...
>and... I don't think I can go on here... "Hi my name Ken and I've
got..."
>...deep breath... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, IT CAN"T BE!!!!!!
>
>My beloved 100/2.8 and 24/2.8 are JUNK lenses. They have the infamous
>silver-rim. But thankfully, my 35/shift is black rimmed. Whew.
>
>Before I tossed them into the trash, I mounted them on the cameras and
had a
>look at them. My OM-1 is a chrome body and the silver-rimmed lenses
look
>wonderful on it. They looked pretty decent on the black OM-2s, but the
>black rimmed shift lens didn't look good on the OM-1. It's true,
chrome
>bodies need silver-rimmed lenses.
>
>Well, I'll keep my lenses, but will forever wonder how I've ever
managed to
>survive without black-rimmed MC lenses. Worse comes to worse, I'll
trade
>them in on Sigmas.
>
>Ken N.
>
>
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