Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/02/02

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Subject: [Leica] Uncoded lenses on the M8
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Mon Feb 2 23:36:32 2009

The M8 manual states that "When using a lens without 6-bit coding, the  
recognition function of the camera must always be turned off, to  
prevent malfunctions."

I have two lenses that are coded (the 24mm and 35mm) and two that are  
not (50mm and 90mm). In the beginning (that is, during the first week)  
I religiously observed the above admonition when changing lenses, but  
that got to be old pretty quickly. So since then I have simply left  
the lens detection in the ON+UV/IR setting at all times. So far I have  
not seen any ill effects of using my uncoded lenses with that setting  
(all my lenses do have the UV/IR filters).

So, just curious: has any M8 owner experienced any such "malfunction"  
referred to in the manual?

Nathan

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