It would improve Hawkins' numbers if we all looked at our lenses & sent
serial numbers, markings, and lens colours to him.
tom
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Friday, May 07, 1999 2:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [OM] 300mm f4.5 multicoated examples: reflect green?
>
>
> >In a message dated 5/7/99 3:09:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> cstrat@xxxxxxxxx
> >writes:
> >
> >> Wouldn't it be nice if someone with access to lots of Zuikos would try
> >> to
> >> narrow down the serial number range on each where the transition to MC
> >> occurred.......(hint, hint)
> >
> >This has been done already. The results are posted at Lee Hawkin's sight,
> at
> >http://www.astro.wellesley.edu/lhawkins/photo/mc-sc.survey
>
> Taking sight of this site I think that there are wholesale gaps in the
> sequence of serial numbers and wonder if Hawkins' list is just a
> collection of serial numbers of which he is familiar or which have been
> provided to him. It would seem to me that at some point in time in the
> manufacturing of each lens that the coating changed from SC to MC and
> stayed at MC thereafter. Why would Olympus want to swap back and forth
> between SC and MC on any particular line of lens?
>
> jh
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