[Leica] 6 Bit Coding on Lenses

[rangefinder at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig)]

Frank

I think that was largely discussed here a few weeks ago. The M digital's 
in-camera software will use different anti-vignetting and other 
postprocessing algorithms, depending on which lens is used.

Didier





>Statements from Leica today......
>
>"Lenses in the current range as well as many earlier models can be 
>retrofitted at the cost of the owner to benefit from the image
>optimization in the camera."
>
>"Apart from the improvement in image quality, this information is also 
>written into the EXIF image file."
>
>There is a more than passing comment that the camera itself does something 
>with the coding from the lenses.  Do we have any data
>that tells us what?  ( apart from recording it into the EXIF data 
>locations).
>
>Frank Filippone
>red735i@earthlink.net