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What had happened to M8 FW for newer lenses?


caparobertsan

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Of course there is no 6 BIT support for the non-Leica lenses mentioned though.

Nokton 35/1.2, Nokton Classic 40/1.4, Biogon 35/2. AKAREX + schneider-kreuznach Xenon 50/2.0.

There was a table available here at some stage that had suggested substitute settings. Sorry I'm not sure which page is hosting that currently. Someone will post on this maybe?

EDIT: Jaap just posted this in another thread

http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-news/leica-lens-codes/

 

If you have one or two coded Leica lenses not in the M8 firmware could you alter the coding to an equivalent with same focal length?. You need frameline agreement. You won't get the right name reported in EXIF but you should get functional correction and a means to identify which (substitute) you used.

I'm a bit rusty, but I recall that even with the M9 there were no manual selection options for lenses that were never available as non-coded versions.

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... if new lens was released.

When the 21mm Super-Elmar was released, they updated the firmware to 2.014. This was 2 years after the M8 was discontinued.

 

I am not sure whether the 50mm Summicron ApoAsph is detected by the M8, are you missing the code for this lens in your firmware? Which other newly released Leica-lenses do you miss?

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Sorry, I don't follow exactly what you mean there, UliWer.

I was trying to say that the specific corrections (for vignette for example) done in firmware would not make any difference to the results with that lens. Obviously the design is optically superb and of course it is a 50mm in any case. You can only notice any significant difference with wider angle lenses.

As you say, it would only matter for the convenience of having the lens information in EXIF.

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Actually there is no other lens needed for my camera. I am happy with What I got for now.

Economy is no good so I won`t be able to buy another Digital Leicas. I wish they will release better version of New M( without any Bull function such as video and live view) :mad:

 

 

I was thinking of Summicron M28/2 and M35/2 but When I played again with my Elmarit M28/2.8- M8 combo, I was happy with it!

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Caparobertsan, They just released a version of the M w/o live view or video. Unfortunately, it also has no monitor and is a limited edition of 600 pieces and costs somewhere around $16K. I guess that it will be on collectors' shelves. This special camera is the "M60".:eek:

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