If not worried about possible obscure outliers that may or may not
exist, the eSIF page
<http://olympus.dementia.org/eSIF/om-sif/lensgroup/lensterms.htm> is an
excellent and reliable guide for prime lenses. This generally reflects
the wisdom of the list and is likely more reliable than any books.
For zooms, the Multicoating Cross-Reference
<http://brashear.phys.appstate.edu/lhawkins/photo/multicoat.txt> shows
that all the zooms except the 75-150 were likely only made as MC. The
referrences to MC 75-150s in lens handbooks is the source of the recent
specualtion as to whether such a thing actually exists. Similar rules
to the primes seem to generally apply about the 'MC' marking on the lens
ring. The 35-70/3.6, introduced in '79, is marked MC and the 35-105,
from '84, has no MC mark, but is multicoated.
Browsing through the Multicoating Survey results
<http://brashear.phys.appstate.edu/lhawkins/photo/mc-sc.survey> and
Paul's Lens Coatings survey
<http://brashear.phys.appstate.edu/lhawkins/photo/LensXCoatings.txt>
generally supports these rules, although there are some obvious
anomalies attributable to front rings changed when serviced, operater
error and ???
Moose
whunter wrote:
I simply seek to differentiate SC from MC. Do any of the books
published on the Olympus OM era provide tables of factual data
relevant to this issue?
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