Sorry Folks. I thought there was a corrective post after that
bit of nonesense from my typewriter. Mine is SN 1306xx. Just
looked at it to confirm. 1368xx is reaaaallllly close. I know
that those around 142000 are different.
That obay lens sure looks clean and nice. If the glass is
spotless then this is as close to LNIB you'll ever see. I peeled
the "Passed" stickers off of everything right away. As far as
comparative condition, mine looks like Peter Falk's Columbo.
AG
--- Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Piers Hemy wrote:
> > 7607139894 on the auction site, s/n is 1368xx, which looks
> to me to be close
> > to AG's magic number.
> >
> Not close, much too high, according to AG's most recent
> informed posts
> on the subject:
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
> "In case anybody is curious to know, mine is serial number
> 113xxx
> and I believe the same lens design was used into the
> 118000's."
>
> "There was a period of time where the 100/2.8 underwent a few
> subtle changes. Also, during this same period of time Olympus
> altered the lens-coating process and was introducing some
> additional layers. You will not find a green reflection in
> this
> lens, but there are additional visible colors not seen in the
> earlier ones. If I recall, and I'll have to google the old
> posts to verify, the change occured somewhere around 109000.
> The
> lenses in the 120000's are of a different design. Slightly
> improved in some areas, but I don't think they've got quite
> the
> same 3D characteristics. The MC/Blacknosed 100/2.8 lenses are
> more color neutral and slightly more flat-fielded and sharper
> edge-to-edge. They also have a different iris-blade design in
> a
> slightly altered position. The earliest 100/2.8 lenses had a
> very good center, but fell off in resolution near the edges.
> They also flared like no tomorrow."
>
> The look and feel of the images from the 100/2.8 in this
> series
> is quite unique.
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Moose
>
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