Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Brian... if 6 bits would have been used up too quickly, they could have used 7 or 8 bits..... I have no idea why, but I have had experience in supporting past technology. There is a point that you just decide, as a company, that support for items more than X years old just is no longer required. You just need to move forward. Frank Filippone red735i@earthlink.net Here's what I think. A 6-bit code can identify no more than 64 different lenses. I'd be willing to bed that since the release of the M3 50 years ago, Leica has issued maybe 50 different kinds of lenses. If they were willing to put 6-bit codes on all of them, they'd only have room for a dozen new lenses and then the code would be full. So I think if I were them, I'd pick about 20 to 30 of the more modern lenses and assign them code numbers, and reserve the remaining 30 to 40 numbers for products that they haven't shipped yet.