Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/09

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Subject: [Leica] M8 magenta problems - Leica offer a solution
From: henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)
Date: Thu Nov 9 12:19:29 2006
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At 3:59 PM +1100 11/9/06, Alastair Firkin wrote:
>  >
>>>  Why is a coded lens required to get any effect at all?
>>
>>  My guess is that every lens absorbs some amount of IR, and that the lens
>>  coding will tell the firmware how much IR made it through the lens.
>>
>
>These lens codings are more important than a mere mortal can understand.
>The elvish nature of the code transmits all sorts of secret lens business.
>Sort of like my dog picking up her peeMail. I can't read it, but it sends
>her into fits of pleasure.
>
>Cheers
>
>Alastair

Thanks Alastair, that's the best explanation I've heard yet about the 
lens coatings!

:-)

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