Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/11/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted - If your lenses are coded and you ever wanted to give a lecture on the fabulous 21 and its uses, you could use LR to immediately choose all of the photos you ever made with the 21. Some of the wides have special software adjustments for color balance, vignetting and so forth, if they can be identified by the coding. That's about it! Tina On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 12:15 PM, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote: > Hi Crew, > CODING? for M series lenses on an M8 or whatever? > > Here we go, stupid question for the week. Is the coding just the usual > techie number stuff? Or is it absolutely necessary? Do major good things > happen if I do have them coded? Or major bad things happen if I don't? > > I have a CV 15mm & 21, both cut beautiful images. a Leica 35 Summilux, 90 > Summicron, & a Noctilux. Did have several others... sold them. > > Not one has been marked other than maybe me banging them on something. > > So I have tons of images shot with any mixture of these lenses, several > have been published, several are for the new medical student book. But they > all look cool and blow up to make beautiful prints 18X12 on 13X19 fine art > paper. Colour or B&W. > > Clients have been very pleasantly surprised, I am quite happy with the > results, nor do I have any qualms about the "LEICA" looking quality nice > and > sharp! So? What am I doing wrong that I acquire such wonderful quality > without seeing any weird looking effects in the photographs without coding? > > Or am I just bloody lucky? Yeah I know it could be me not understanding > the techie stuff as usual. :-) But then if I did that techie kind of stuff > for the past 60 years I wouldn't be where I am today. > > cheers, > Dr. ted :-) > PS: Or is it merely another money making line by Leica to have older lenses > returned for coding because some techie guy in Wetzlar on a test bench saw > three microns difference and freaked out! Therefore all coding is necesary? > > Last question. > "Can you actually see the difference in a print with the naked eye, coded > or not?? If not? then like... "WHO CARES!" :-) > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com