In a message dated 04/03/2002 6:27:14 PM Eastern Standard Time,
sally30@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Newbie question. How can you tell if a Zuiko lens is
multi-coated other than the MC on front of lens ring? I
believe some are multi-coated and do not have the MC
designation.
Generally, Zuikos that have the element identifier before the word Zuiko
(i.e. lenses labeled "F. Zuiko", "G. Zuiko", etc...) are single coated. When
Olympus started to multicoat their lenses they added the "MC" designation on
the front ring. Later, when essentially all Zuikos were multicoated, and just
to keep us confused for years to come, they dropped the "MC" designator and
left the lenses labeled as just "Zuiko"
The main exceptions to this are the fast wide angles (21/2, 24/2, 28/2, and I
believe 35/2) which were always MC. Other lenses that were always MC include
all of the zooms except for the 75-150/4, the 20/2 macro, 24/3.5 shift,
38/2.8 macro, 28/2.8, 50/2 macro, 100/2, 90/2 macro, 180/2.8, 180/2, 250/2,
350/2.8. There might have been others as well.
Confused yet?
Paul Schings
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