Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/03/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Advice based on personal experience: leave your lenses alone, just take pictures. Cheers, Nathan Sendt fra min iPad > Den 22. mar. 2019 kl. 10.04 skrev Peter Klein via LUG <lug at > leica-users.org>: > > To fellow digital M users: What do you folks do about lens coding? > > Some of my lenses are coded, some aren't. My general sense is that 35mm > and shorter lenses need to be coded to avoid cyan drift in the outer > regions. But for 50mm and longer, it doesn't matter much unless one cares > that the EXIF data contains the correct focal length. I've found that when > I'm changing lenses in fast situations, I can't count on always changing > the manual lens ID in the menu. > > I'm planning to get a couple of Fotodiox PRO adapters for my 50 and 90mm > LTM lenses. Their reviews on the B&H site seem to be mostly positive, > unlike some other brands. Can anyone here verify this or suggest a better > alternative? > > As for my still uncoded M-mount lenses, I'm torn between coding them > myself, leaving them alone, or getting them coded professionally. Choices > include: > > - Have Leica do it, at I believe, $300 dollars a pop. > - An independent repair person like DAG, or, who else? > - Buy lens flanges with coding pits from eBay and install and paint them > myself. (beware Chinese quality control?) > - Using my M coder template and an oil-based industrial marker to code the > lenses myself. I've done this before, but it is painstaking, requires some > trial and error, and has to be redone periodically. > > Advice based on personal experience would be appreciated. Thanks! > > --Peter > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information