Pedro Pedras wrote: Silentlight wrote:
Others have mentioned Zuiko 24/2.8... make sure it doesn\'t say H.Zuiko on it. The H.Zuiko wasn\'t multi-coated.
Well, i\'ve been reading some sites and the H means that it is composed by 8 elements.
\"G-Zuiko means there are 7 elements in its optical composition. (E=5, F=6, G=7, H=8, I=9; J=10, K=11). Some Zuikos show \"AUTO-S\" denoting the lense as a Standard, while AUTO-W and AUTO-T refer to Wideangle and Telephoto construction. All newer series of Zuiko dropped such classifications.\"
That may or may not be correct. A different site (I didn\'t save the url) with just as much impressive data & pictures, says the prefix letter simply denotes the time-period when the lenses were made. Thus, G-Zuiko is followed cronologically by H-Zuiko. Then they switched to \"MC\" to denote multi-coated lenses, then they dropped the \"MC\" once all their lenses were multi-coated.
I don\'t know who\'s right, but the latter explanation makes a lot more sense to me, since some Zuikos have the same # of elements in both \"H\" and non-prefix versions.
If anyone has a \"G\" or \"H\" Zuiko that ALSO says \"MC,\" then that would perhaps indicate that the first explanation (number of elements) is correct. Does anyone have such a lens?
There\'s a whole lotta\' strange information on the internet.
