Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]There has been extensive discussion of Leica's use of lens coding to identity lenses to the M8. Many of us feel that this is an extremely inconvenient and costly solution for the user and that this should be done, more simply, by providing for it in the M8 firmware, which is easy to implement. Accordingly, I have written an online petition to Andreas Kaufmann and Leica, which reads as follows: >While Leica's solution of coding lenses in order to identify them >to the camera may have made sense at the time the M8 was >introduced, today a better solution is available. Nikon deals with >lens identification in firmware, by simply allowing the used to enter >the focal length and maximum aperture of the lens. With such a >facility available in the M8 firmware the user would not have to send >lenses away for coding, which is not only relatively expensive but is also >bothersome in that the lenses have to be sent away and may not be >received back for some time; it is also often onerous for Leica M8 >users who do not live in Europe and North America, in that lens >shipment is more costly, takes longer and involves troublesome >customs clearance when the lenses are shipped back. >We therefore call on Dr Andreas Kaufmann and Leica to institute >an M8 lens identification system in firmware, preferably on an >open-system basis for all lenses or at least for all Leica lenses >that can be used on the M8. You can sign the petition at the following link, and I encourage you to list in the Comment field the Leica-M camaras that you own: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/leica-M8-firmware/ My feeling is that, as this matter has been discussed so extensively, there is no need to discuss it here further. Please sign the petition if you support this initiative. ?Mitch/Potomac, MD http://www.flickr.com/photos/malland/sets/72157594271568487/