Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/11/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted it won't make any difference that you would care about with your 35, 50 and 90. the 15 and 21 will vignette more and maybe have coloured corners but you might not notice that for many shots. It helps for identifying the lenses afterwards. Since you already have hundreds of thousands of shots without that info, I doubt that you care. It helps with flash. I KNOW you don't care! Cheers Geoff http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman On 10 November 2010 03:15, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote: > Hi Crew, > CODING? for M series lenses on an M8 or whatever? > > Here we go, stupid question for the week. Is the coding just the usual > techie number stuff? Or is it absolutely necessary? Do major good things > happen if I do have them coded? Or major bad things happen if I don't? > > I have a CV 15mm & 21, both cut beautiful images. a Leica 35 Summilux, 90 > Summicron, & a Noctilux. Did have several others... sold them. > > Not one has been marked other than maybe me banging them on something. > > So I have tons of images shot with any mixture of these lenses, several > have been published, several are for the new medical student book. But they > all look cool and blow up to make beautiful prints 18X12 on 13X19 fine art > paper. Colour or B&W. > > Clients have been very pleasantly surprised, I am quite happy with the > results, nor do I have any qualms about the "LEICA" looking quality nice > and > sharp! So? What am I doing wrong that I acquire such wonderful quality > without seeing any weird looking effects in the photographs without coding? > > Or am I just bloody lucky? Yeah I know it could be me not understanding > the techie stuff as usual. :-) But then if I did that techie kind of stuff > for the past 60 years I wouldn't be where I am today. > > cheers, > Dr. ted :-) > PS: Or is it merely another money making line by Leica to have older lenses > returned for coding because some techie guy in Wetzlar on a test bench saw > three microns difference and freaked out! Therefore all coding is necesary? > > Last question. > "Can you actually see the difference in a print with the naked eye, coded > or not?? If not? then like... "WHO CARES!" :-) > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >