Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Frank, some of the guys have tried the coding on zeiss and voitlander lenses. it seems to work, but the result's needs more time to study On 11/30/06, Frank Filippone <red735i@earthlink.net> wrote: > There is an interesting thread on the Forum about lens coding. Folks are > starting to play with the coding schemes, using a Sharpie > and white out ( Typewriter correction fluid) to fool the body into > thinking a different lens is on the camera. What good this will > do is as yet unknown, but hacking into camera technology seems to please > some people, and may prove if there is really anything to > the coding theories.. > > If you wish to read the thread.... http://tinyurl.com/ymru2m > > > What is most interesting .... The Tri- Elmar has of course 3 focal > lengths. Apparently the camera reads the lens coding form the > dots, then checks the position of the VF preview lever for which of the 3 > FL the lens is at. In effect, the body can tell if the > 28, 35, or 50mm position of the lens is being used. > > With 6 bit coding, at first in my mind, there were only 64 different > lenses possible to be distinguished. I thought this was kind > of limiting. Using the VF preview position, this expands the possible > unique lenses to 3x64 different lenses. That is a bunch of > unique signatures that represent some future growth, and possible uses... > > BTW, no one has hacked into the coding and tried a Zeiss or CV lens using > a Leica lens profile.... yet..... > > Frank Filippone > red735i@earthlink.net > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- ------------------------------------- regards, mehrdad