Jason,
I don't know about the way Tran is saying it but if you are bidding on
the lens pictured then it is, according to current knowledge,
multi-coated. The key here is that there is no letter preceding the
word Zuiko (as in E-Zuiko). If there is a letter present, then it's NOT
multicoated. AFAIK
Rand E.
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>The Searcher wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> I know there has been much discussion of multi-coating lately, and forgive
> me if I haven't absorbed it all, but I would like to know if the new,
> black-painted (not chrome-ringed) Zuikos are multi-coated regardless of
> whether or not there is an "MC" in their label. I ask because one Zuiko
> that I'm shopping for has turned up on eBay
> (http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=34296482). This
> lens is not marked "MC," so I asked the vendor and he said that only the
> older, chrome-ringed versions are distinguished that way. The modern,
> black-painted versions, he says, are multi-coated regardless of any "MC"
> stamp. Is that true?
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Jason
>
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