Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/09/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I guess there are 2 reasons to code a lens..... To ID it in the EXIF data, and to make that process idiot proof. To enable the M8 to perform its "magic" with the WA lenses. Maybe a third one.... because you can. I would like my WA lenses to be coded, and I am using Milich to cut the recesses for the coding on the 3E and my 28/2. ( as an aside, they and the WATE will go New Zealand with me in January,,,, ) On the 35/1.4 and 35/2V3, the mounts seem to have tiny screws around the periphery of the lens. I absolutely refuse to touch them until I know if they are the way into the lens. I doubt that Leica would have designed a lens so that the lens mount would not come off.....somehow.... but I doubt these 2 lenses are as easy as removing 6 screws. I would like to have one or the other to be coded, because I use them so often... now thinking about it, and the 1.33 factor of the M8, maybe I should not bother.... I probably will settle for a wider lens, like my 28 as my standard carry around lens. The 50 Pre ASPH Lux is another matter, and I do understand that one is a bit hairy..... and I will probably not bother with the effort involved. I do appreciate the info on not needing to code the 35/1.4. It does make me more comfortable in using the lens..... BTW, did you realize that if you remove 3 mounts and send them to Milich to code, that you do not have the 3 lenses for use? I found this out after sending off the mounts..... A bit dumb, but I do learn.....sometimes..... Frank Filippone red735i at earthlink.net The 35/1.4 pre-asph lens cannot be coded unless you do it yourself, mechanical skill required of course, which I do not have. The mount cannot be removed, as it is part of the overall lens body, or so I have been told. I think that there is another problem in that one of the screws is in the wrong place. The other lenses are codeable as far as I know. I use my 35/1.4 pre-ash with no problems, you do not really need to code it, in my opinion. Gene --------------