MC elements will not fit in SC lenses, as is the case with black/silver
filter rings. Even if you could get an MC element to "go in", performance
quality would be unknown.
John Hermanson
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----- Original Message -----
From: Gregg Iverson <giverson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2000 5:45 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] "Black Nose" v.s. "Silver Nose"
| John H mentioned something several days ago about the fact that the
various
| lens iteration's rings were not interchangeable as they were slightly
| different in size. I wonder if this applies to other parts as well? This
| would certainly prevent the cross matching of lens elements which would
| likely degrade image quality significantly.
|
| Gregg
|
|
| >It would be nice if there were accessible records of S/N's and when
| >coatings changed, but I've never heard of any. I think the lens survey
and
| >the scouring of OM literature looking for "first mention" of MC was done
to
| >help plug that gap. The question may have been posed to John H. before
| >about how those replacing lens elements during lens repair sort this all
| >out. Is there anything?
| >
| >-- John
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