Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/30

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Subject: [Leica] Re: open wide
From: Allan Wafkowski <allan@sohogurus.net>
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 19:41:12 -0500

I don't know if it's been mention, but an important improvement of the 
SMC lenses was the addition of an extra cam to allow automatic stop-down 
with ES era bodies.

Allan


On Saturday, March 30, 2002, at 06:55 PM, Andrew Touchon wrote:

> Don,
>
> You and I are both correct.
>
> The original Super Takumars made prior to 1971 we were not super multi
> coated.  When I hold these lenses up to the light I see two colors
> reflected, red and yellow.  While the super multicoated lenses reflect 
> red
> yellow and blue.  The  older lenses are coated and some are multi 
> layered.
> However, they are no match for the 7 layer super multi coated lenses.
>
> For more info click here: http://kmp.bdimitrov.de/extras/SMC.html
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Don Dory" <dorysrus@mindspring.com>
> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2002 5:38 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] open wide
>
>
>> Guys, I don't mean to start another off topic thread but both my Super
>> Takumars are multi-coated based on the many colored reflections in the
>> coating.  I think the marketing guys added the SMC to make sure no one
>> missed that Pentax was the first Japanese firm to officially 
>> multi-coat.
>>
>> Don
>> dorysrus@mindspring.com
>>
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