Umm…that's the first time to hear something like that. I remember as a fact that I began to see multi-coated normal Nikkors from 1973 or so, designated as "NC." Or……did you make up this story again?? :->> Koichi Yasutani - a.k.a. Steve + MP Lakewood, WA U.S.A. 2010 / 11 / 21 19:49 PST On Nov 21, 2010, at 0758 , Dave wrote: > When Pentax announced and advertised the virtues of multicoating, Nikon > issued a statement saying they had been doing it for years, as it was > necessary for some complex lens formulations. > > From: Eric Welch <ericwelch@xxxxxx> > To: nikonf4@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Sun, November 21, 2010 1:41:34 AM > Subject: [nikonf4] Re: SMC Takumar > > Actually, multicoating was invented in 1938 at GE, but not widely used until > the 70s. But was it Pentax? Or Zeiss? Or both? > > http://gabriel.mp3-tech.org/blog/index.php?entry=entry090203-153355 > > On Nov 20, 2010, at 6:33 PM, Koichi Mac wrote: > >> Huh! That information is from the very company that invented multi-coating >> in 1970. Am sure they saw other vendors catching up and forgot to fine-tune >> the finesse part of multi-coating afterwards. :-D