All true, but one minor clarification. I don't believe the x.Zuiko was
used on any of the silvernose fast/wides.
Tom
----- Original Message -----
From: "Moose" <olymoose@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 4:50 AM
Subject: [OM] Re: Silver nosed Zuiko lenses (24mm)?
>
> It is still the case that silver nose and black nose are cosmetic. It
> unfortunate for all of our sanity that Oly made a cosmetic change at
> about the same time as they started multi-coating lenses. But, of
> course, the process of bringing out MC lenses took quite some time....
> and the process of changing the appearance took some time. So there is
> all this overlap, and an unknown number of MC lenses with silver noses
> and an unknown number of SC lenses with SC. The point is - the letter
> denoting the number of elements was dropped on each normal prime lens
> when it started being multi-coated. (Does not apply to zooms or
> specialty lenses. All zooms were MC from the beginning except for the
> 75-150.) This is the only reliable indicator. 'MC' is meaningful as a
> positive indication of early MC lenses, but was later dropped as all
> lenses were assumed to be MC. So 'MC' is actually indicative of earlier,
> rather than late, MC lenses.
>
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> >My question was more to do with the fact that I had a silvernose with
> >no letter in front of the 'Zuiko'
> >Is this unusual?
> >
> Slightly. If, however, there is no 'MC' on the front ring, it seems
> likely that something, filter ring or front bezel ring, has been
> replaced and you indeed have a unique speciman. I believe that the combo
> of silver nose and later front ring without the 'MC' marking can't have
> come from the factory. But who knows what may be true of one particular
> lens? It is in any case multi-coated, as all 24/2 lenses are.
>
> Moose
>
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