Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/18

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Subject: [Leica] Use of M8
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:10:28 +0100
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That's what it is, Bob, it is the new LR and not the M8 that is causing this.

My curiosity is now satisfied.

Cheers,
Nathan

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On Jan 18, 2010, at 2:25 PM, Robert D. Baron wrote:

> ==On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at 
> frozenlight.eu> wrote:
> 
>> I did notice one very peculiar thing when looking at M8 pictures last 
>> night. At first, I was annoyed that Leica had reset the numbering. But 
>> OK, I figured that was an inevitable by-product of the repair.  But then 
>> I noticed that the exif data includes aperture information, even for 
>> uncoded lenses! And I am not talking about the maximum aperture; with 
>> both coded and uncoded lenses, the M8 now tries to estimate the actual 
>> aperture used. It is not always correct (some shots I took at f1.2 are 
>> variously identified as having been taken at f1.4, f1.7 and even f2) but 
>> it is mostly in the correct  ballpark.
>> 
>> The version of the firmware is the same as before, so it must be some 
>> special Solms black magic :-)
>> 
>> 
> 
> Have you upgraded Adobe LightRoom in the interim?  All of a sudden I'm
> seeing (in v2.6) the addition of what I would call guesses at the
> aperture value in the exif data.
> 
> It doesn't improve my photographs after I've made them, but if it was
> accurate it might give an occasional plonker like me some idea about
> what I did right or wrong.  As it is, though, it is just one of those
> little mysteries of life.
> 
> :-)
> 
> --Bob
> 
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