About M-SYSTEM 75-150mm F4 serials

Previously, I wrote about my favourite lens of the Zuiko lineup, the M-SYSTEM 55mm F1.2. In that post, I mentioned that there are 9 lenses within the lineup.

Now you may think, as an M-SYSTEM addict, I should have got all the lenses right? The answer is NO.

One of the reasons is that, I am not very interested in the other lenses. However, more importantly, is that I cannot locate this lens.

The M-SYSTEM 75-150mm F4.

I remember meeting a fellow Zuiko collector online and he told me that he had never seen this lens as well. To find one is really a challenge.

Basically the Zuiko zooms aren't very impressive, except the legendary 35-80mm F2.8 ED, which I shall introduce some time later.

Back to the title lens, the 75-150mm F4.

I am not interested in getting most of the zooms but because of my recent post, I decided to look for one. Usually they are cheap! However, they are mad hard to find, as difficult as finding the M-SYSTEM 55mm F1.2.

Even on the Mark Dapoz's site, there are only two entries, 102529, 102569.

Yet, the 55mm F1.2 has four entries.

So maybe this particular lens is even rarer than the 1.2? It's estimated to have 2500 units compared to the 1200 units of the 1.2.

However, I haven't seen one for sale so far. But look at it, it's silvernose and looks so sexy.

So today I tried to search for it and noticed something...

102296...BUT it's an OM-SYSTEM version.

So this is a bit tricky. An earlier serial but it's an OM-SYSTEM.

Does it mean that the serials were assigned randomly? If that's they case, the hunt would be pretty tricky.

Anyways, I think this is not an easy find.

If I can locate this lens, I might be more interested in getting the whole set of M-SYSTEM lenses.

Before that, I will just stick with my current collection.

Cheers!