>From: Ian Montgomery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ....... >I thought it had been mentioned before that a red stripe simply indicated >an >L-series lens, which simply indicated the lens has flourite and/or aspheric >and/or Ultra-low dispersion glass? From what's been bouncing around here >and >elsewhere it does have a green stripe. Makes perfect sense. They wanted >to >indicate that it's a "luxury" lens but doesn't have the necessary glass to >warrant a red stripe. Just as a reminder: the very first Fluorite lenses (FL and maybe also FD with the older mount) had a green stripe if I just recall it right. I was a teenager at that time and was only dreaming of getting one (and F-1 with motor and EF and ...). I had Canon FTb-N with FL50/3.5 macro, Panagor 135/2.8 and Tele-Universal 500/8 manual aperture lens (price about 50USD at that time) and ATP 2-3x converter... I was even trying to photograph flying swifts (don't know if the word is correct but anyway: these birds are small and fly fast) with that 500mm lens. Got one "keeper" (wouldn't be by today's standards I'm afraid). I often wonder if we are spoiled with our L-lenses. Maybe we should first give proof of our photographic skills before we would be allowed to use those wonder-lenses (L or similar)... ;-) Vesa _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
