Why?
It matters the least on the front of the lens.
It increases transparency by a little, but doesn't reduce glare at all,
unless you have a filter on.
But it does look good!
tOM
On Tuesday, September 10, 2002 at 13:57, C.H.Ling
<olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote re "Re: [OM] Fang! possibly two" saying:
> The coating on the front element IS important, otherwise all our
> lenses will have no coating on the front element.
>
> C.H.Ling
>
> Tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > The coating on the front of the front element hardly matters at all. What
> > matters are the coatings on all the internal lens surfaces, since
> > reflections off the front never create glare.
> >
> > tOM--
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