On Monday, April 22, 2002, at 06:18 PM, Mishka wrote: > playing devil's advocate, according to > http://people.smu.edu/rmonagha/mf/coatings.html > there's no significant improvement in flare resistance between single- > and > multicoated optics, in lab tests at least. granted, it talks mostly > about > primes, but still, is it that big of a deal, really?
I haven't looked at the page, but I can tell you from personal experience and a hard-fought Hasselblad-vs-Pentax 67 flare shootout that multicoated optics can vary wildly in their flare resistance. Just because something has a coating on it (or multiple coatings), that does not make any of them automatically good. For instance, I could multicoat this lens with vasoline and mud... -Aaron - 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 .
