Besides the way the coating itself appears, doesn't coating affect the
color cast of the prints or slides produced?
It's seems to me that my A's and later have a more saturated, warmer
color tone than my older M's and K's.
tv
Mark Cassino wrote:
>
> I just took a quick look at several SMC lenses...
>
> 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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