Hey, a shopping trip to the Great White North courtesy of Tom Scales' credit
card? I'm in!
Seriously, don't worry so much about coatings. It's a minor factor among
all lens 'elements.' <G> I'll paraphrase myself from something I wrote to
John Hudson: My Can-not-an-OM-on FD 35/3.5 (early '70s breechlock vintage)
is coated nearly identically, with a single coating that is distinctly
magenta, with multiple other reflections that appear yellowish to me but
which others might see as greenish. But lenses have excellent resolution
with moderate contrast and little or no tendency toward flare even in
difficult lighting.
You gotta love companies that lavish such attention on even their economy
lenses.
For me the 75-150 focal length zoom could be improved only if it were
available as an f/2.8, but didn't cost eleventy-seventy hundred bucks like
the Zuiko 35-80/2.8.
Don't worry. Shoot happily.
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From: "Chris O'Neill" <coneill@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [OM] Lenses, MC or SC, etc.
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 16:14:37 -0600
Oh, dear! It seems to get more complicated the more I ask! :-)
Lex, you're gonna have to come to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and go
lens shopping with me! :-) For that matter, bring Tom and his credit card
with you! :-)))
I guess the only *real* way to know that a lens is multi-coated is if it
has
an "MC" on it. Or, is someone gonna tell me that Olympus put "MC" on
some single-coated lenses??? I guess the other way to make sure it's
multi-coated is to stay with the lenses listed in the Unofficial Olympus OM
Zuiko Lens Page as always being multi-coated. Or, is this also subject to
Olympus' whims, too???
For that matter, am I making too much of wanting to stay with multi-
coated lenses??? If Lex gets multi-coated flaring instead of single-coated
flaring, then maybe it's not worth worrying about all that much???
Finally, maybe it'd be simpler to just as for some (hopefully)
straightforward advice... I'm looking for a Zuiko medium range telephoto
(i.e. no longer than 300mm) that will give me nice shots without costing
me an arm and a leg. Which would would folks suggest?
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