[Leica] EXIF Viewer

[joelct at singnet.com.sg (Joseph Low)]

              Allen

              Your note piqued my interest - please tell us more about this 
utility 

              Thank you 

               Joseph Low

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From: lug-bounces+joelct=singnet.com.sg@leica-users.org 
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allen.graves@charter.net
Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 10:17 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: RE: [Leica] LHSA meeting in Wetzlar; Leica Camera AG

Entering the lens data manually is certainly possible as I do this regularly 
on my Nikon D200. I don't think that the camera does anything with the info, 
though, except enter it into the EXIF data and probably use it in the 
metering programs.All that is entered is the focal length and maximum 
aperture of the lens, and that value is then stored for future use. You can 
have up to 4 different  lens max. apertures for the same focal length using 
custom menus.

I see no reason that Leica could not have stored a list of the lenses 
supported by in-camera processing in a menu for easy selection, though lens 
"upgrading" probably does supply a small but significant (to Leica) revenue 
stream.

As an aside, it is pretty amazing to use an EXIF viewer (like Opanda for the 
PC or EXIF Viewer for the Mac) to look at all the data that is recorded for 
each shot taken with a camera- there is far more recorded than you see with 
most image viewers. I just learned that the total number of photos taken 
with the camera is recorded in the jpeg files, along with a lot of other 
esoteric, equally useless trivia, though it might be useful if you were 
buying a used camera.

Allen



---- Frank Filippone <red735i@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Is the cell you refer to the little dot just above the red Leica dot ? 
> It is hard to see on a black camera, but sticks out nicely on a Chrome 
> one....
>
> It appears funny to me that the data is put in the EXIF field if the lens 
> is coded, but not possible to manually enter into the
> camera for the same purpose.  With all the digital doo jiggeys available, 
> it would seem trivial to figure out some combination of
> button pushes and knob turns to make this a reality for all of us 
> "Classic" lens owners......
>
> I point out again, that the reason ( or justification) of why you want 
> this feature is a long photo shoot where there is no way you
> will remember which lens was on the camera for each shot... IF the data 
> actually does anything to the image ( in the camera or in
> the computer)
>
> Actually looks like a throw back to metering cells before through the lens 
> metering.....  Retro M8 anyone?
>
> Frank Filippone
> red735i@earthlink.net
>
>
> AFAIK, the aperture data is an approximation coming front the little 
> cell on the front, but used only if the lens is coded.
>
> Lucien
>
>
>
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