Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/05/05

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Subject: [Leica] lens coding
From: hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)
Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 08:06:38 +1000
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Hi Fred.
You are very unlikely to notice any practical difference in use for lenses
longer than 35mm.
The EXIF data is very useful in management of your image library however.
The compression applied in camera to record DNG compressed is lossless.



Cheers
Geoff
http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman


On 6 May 2014 07:23, Fred Bastiat <myrmidons at me.com> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> Just received the M 240. All of my lenses are uncoded, mostly 70's and
> 80's vintage. It's not clear to me if having coded lenses helps me if I'm
> always shooting DNGc. Does coding help with anything other than the
> camera's JPEG engine?
>
> Also, is there any loss of image data using DNGc vs DNG. The manual states
> "no", but is that accurate?
>
> Thanks
>
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