on 7/31/01 7:31 PM, M. Royer at royer007@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Thank you all for your helpful answers. I have
> contacted the seller about this item and am waiting
> for his response, anyway, as you can see I have
> another question for you all. Today I took the plunge
> from a minor colletor to majorly obsessed zuikoholic.
> Today I called B&H and purchased, with all the money I
> made slaving under a hot sun painting houses this
> summer.... and ordered a new 24mm Zuiko Shift lens,
> since from reading this list I'm pretty sure these
> things only come along every one or two years and the
> one I was so hoping to get on e-bay a week or so ago
> was snatched out from under me by Jim Brokaw (lucky
> bastard :).
> Anyway here is my question. I know that there isn't a
> way to put a protective filter directly on the front
> of the lens becuse of the front element, but is there
> any way or lens hood or something that I could use to
> put a protective filter on rather than just geting a
> plastic baggie and stretching it tight over the hood
> or locking this lens away in a safe and never using it.
>
There is a lens cap for the lens, kind of like the 18/3.5 cap only much
bigger. The front element is quite large, rounded and sticks out a lot, so
you need to protect it... the prior owner of the lens I got didn't do that,
and now I'll need to get that fixed. There are internal filters for red,
orange, yellow, and neutral on a rotary ring. I'm not sure what you do if
you want a polarizer, I think the field of view of this lens is so big to
accomodate the shifts that it would have to be about 6" diameter not to
vignette.
I can't help but think that there are other less specialized lenses to look
for first... until you have two of everything. ;-)
--
Jim Brokaw
OM-1's, -2's, -4's, (no -3's yet) and no OM-oney...
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