Re: [OM] Awww, poop.

[Sawyer, Edward]

The OM 8mm fisheye lens suffers from this same endemic failure. Almost all
of them have a clouded element in the rear. It must be some sort of issue
with the cement in a cemented pair of elements.

The RZ67 75mm shift/short-barrel lenses have a similar issue, many have
clouded rear element pair.


On 2/4/13 6:16 AM, "olympus-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
<olympus-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> After seeing the mention of hazing on the middle element of the OM
> 65-200, I looked at mine.
> 
> Dammit.
> 
> That was one of the lenses I had hoped to use with the E-M5.  Now I know
> why my test shots were all very low contrast. I hadn't heard of that
> problem before.  That lens served me well during the "film years".

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