IIRC, the lens barrel of the 77mm Ltd is aluminum, which indicates that the black finish is probably anodized. Good anodizing can be a lot more durable than chrome.
I wonder if the silver finish on the lens is really chrome, as Pal seemed to indicate. The finish on my 43mm doesn't look like chrome. I don't believe that aluminum can be chrome plated. Alan Chan wrote: > > >I have the chance to buy one at a good price, but dont know whether I > >should be buying silver or black. I dont care about the look being > >consistent with the body, the silver looks fine to me, but I dont want > >one which will show chips or whatever in the black coating. Does the > >coating wear at all? > > I GUESS it would be like regular manual focus lenses. -- Shel Belinkoff mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~belinkoff/ http://home.earthlink.net/~belinkoff/darkroom-rentals/index.html - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
