or a rubberized focusing and ribbed aperture ring. The change came with the SMC designation. The
earlier Super-Multi-Coated had the old ring the SMC had the new cosmetics.
Lon Williamson wrote:
The Tak screw mount lenses I've seen don't have rubber on the focusing ring. They look to be of a scalloped metal design. So the externals, at least, do vary from Tak to 1st K mount.
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I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.
--P.J. O'Rourke
