There's a lot of variation. My non-SMC Super Takumar 55 f1.8 is decidedly yellow, but the non-SMC Super Takumar 135 f3.5 is decidedly blue, as is the Takumar 500 f4.5. New lenses are bluish with hind of green, with the most notable exception being the A* 300 f4, which is bluing with RED overtones...
- MCC
At 05:41 PM 1/25/01 -0800, you wrote:
Isn't it interesting how people can look at the same things and
see them entirely differently. I've got SMC lenses from Takumar
to FA, and the coatings sure do look different to me. The
earlier coatings seem to be more yellow when examined in a
certain type of light, and the later coatings have a more
greenish or bluish color. Now, if this means that the coatings
are different, or that the light is refracted differently for
other reasons, I can't say. I'd only like to add that there are
others on this list who have observed the same color differences
in their lenses, which also run the gamut from early to late SMC
lenses.
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