[Leica] 6 Bit Coding on Lenses

[richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard)]

You guys OVERthink :-) The simplest conclusion is usually the right one. 
What do most Hermes toting, Ralph Gibson special edition carrying, titanium 
shell'ing Leica users like to use? JPG mode or RAW mode?

*Ding* JPG
Now wouldn't it then make sense for Leica to just do some in camera RAW-JPG 
conversion that shows the camera in decent light? Sure it does. Of course 
power users will get the same or more using Photoshop and whatnot.

At 11:46 AM 7/13/2006, Frank Filippone wrote:

>Precisely what I asked.......   Data is not theory or rumor or 
>speculation, it is hard facts.
>
>Does anyone have any data?  What is the camera doing to 
>correct/amend/change/augment/etc.  anything?
>
>If the 6 bit code does have specific in-camera functionality, how does one 
>get that same result if you use an uncoded lens of the
>same but older vintage  ( Thinking for example now of the 24 ASPH 
>)?  Without the coding, the camera does not do something and
>afterwards nothing can retro-fix the corrections into the image?
>
>Let me make a comment.... it would be smarter to allow for corrections in 
>some PS or other plug-in ( or even allow for the download
>software make these changes) than to do anything in the camera.  It would 
>save batteries, make changes in algorithms more flexible,
>allow for third party support, make the camera faster to operate, make the 
>camera cheaper to manufacture ( smaller dumber uP) and
>generally, make life more manageable.
>
>But Leica is not an acronym for customer service.......
>
>
>Frank Filippone
>red735i@earthlink.net
>
>
>
>I know that there has been speculation that the "6 bit" code will probably
>have something to do with vignette correction within the camera. Leica
>refers to "Image Optimization: without getting specific (at least in what I
>have read).  Does anyone know authoritatively what the code does to the
>image (not the Exif or metadata) in the camera?
>
>Ed K
>
>
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> >>"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
> >
> >on
>
>
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