Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/11/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina, You forgot to mention: if the vignetting and other (if any) corrections are significant, you can always enter the lens identity manually. Admittedly, this is a pain in the neck and easy to forget. Some months ago, I posted a picture of a gull on a post and Bob Adler commented: "How did you get that close to the duck with a 35mm lens?" Of course, it was a 90mm lens, and I forgot to change the lens choice manualy. Herb >Ted - > >If your lenses are coded and you ever wanted to give a lecture on the >fabulous 21 and its uses, you could use LR to immediately choose all of the >photos you ever made with the 21. > >Some of the wides have special software adjustments for color balance, >vignetting and so forth, if they can be identified by the coding. > >That's about it! > >Tina > >On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 12:15 PM, <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 > > > > > > >-- >Tina Manley, ASMP >www.tinamanley.com > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Herbert Kanner kanner at acm.org 650-326-8204 Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle and will pee on your computer!