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Subject: [Leica] ONT: prescient m8 exif
From: frank.dernie at btinternet.com (FRANK DERNIE)
Date: Thu Jan 22 07:23:31 2009

I notice that my M8 "knows" I have fitted a 35mm lens, even though none of 
my 35s are coded.
It even senses the 35mm setting on the tri-elmar. The others not.
Frank


--- On Thu, 22/1/09, Rei Shinozuka <shino@panix.com> wrote:

> From: Rei Shinozuka <shino@panix.com>
> Subject: [Leica] ONT: prescient m8 exif
> To: "Leica Users Group (LUG)" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Thursday, 22 January, 2009, 2:02 PM
> i have an off-brand lens with LTM to M adapter (a
> voigtlander 28/1.9)
> which of course is uncoded, and most image info shows up as
> 0mm (uncoded), 
> but i was surprised that a few (less than
> 10%) of the images i took with the M8 actually correctly
> recorded "28mm" 
> as the focal length.  this seems to be a totally
> intermittent phenomenon,
> sometimes a series of images will have 0mm, then one will
> say 28mm, then
> more 0mm.
> 
> i am mystified!
> 
> does the m8 perhaps use the viewfinder selector to make a
> guess?  i
> recall sun tam exploring this possibility in an LHSA
> Viewfinder article.
> 
> i'd be fascinated to hear if anyone else has seen this
> phenomenon?
> 
> -rei
> 
> -- 
> Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com
> Ridgewood, New Jersey
> 
> 
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