erl Posted June 24, 2011 Share #321 Posted June 24, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) I have an uncoded 50mm cron and I have to manually put it in and the one thing that I noticed not being recorded is the f stop used. I just tested that observation. Using C1 and my uncoded 50mm 'Cron, I get all the EXIF, including the aperture (as guessed by the M8/9), providing I remember to manually select the lens in the camera menu. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted June 24, 2011 Posted June 24, 2011 Hi erl, Take a look here The old 1.162 firmware (changed title). I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
rscheffler Posted June 25, 2011 Share #322 Posted June 25, 2011 You do not lose EXIF with manual lens selection. Nor anything else I can think of. Of course not, but the problem with using manual lens selection is that half the time one forgets to change it when changing the lens. Since the correction is done to the RAW file, the images shot with the next lens but incorrect manual setting may result in adverse vignetting correction. If the correction was an option in post, then one could avoid this problem entirely. Somewhat on a tangent, but it would be nice for Adobe to add a LCC type feature to Lightroom. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
erl Posted June 25, 2011 Share #323 Posted June 25, 2011 If that correction were a PP option then lens coding would be superfluous. The real option is to use coded lenses. Yes, I know about the cost/delay. I too am facing the same problem with two of my lenses. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hydet Posted June 25, 2011 Share #324 Posted June 25, 2011 Card failure is most likely to happen with the insertion or removal from the camera or readers, so larger cards minimize that (not to mention the even-more likely hazards of card loss or mix up when you are juggling a number of smaller cards). With that in mind, I use 32-gig cards and upload the images at the end of each day or shoot. On longer trips, two or three cards will suffice and also act as tertiary backup--I don't erase them or reformat until the end of a trip. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
erl Posted June 25, 2011 Share #325 Posted June 25, 2011 Card failure is most likely to happen with the insertion or removal from the camera or readers, so larger cards minimize that (not to mention the even-more likely hazards of card loss or mix up when you are juggling a number of smaller cards). With that in mind, I use 32-gig cards and upload the images at the end of each day or shoot. On longer trips, two or three cards will suffice and also act as tertiary backup--I don't erase them or reformat until the end of a trip. So if you transfer your images daily, or at the end of a shoot, presumably you remove the SD card to do that anyway. Failure of a 32 GB card caused by removal/insertion would be worse than the same failure of, say an 8GB card. 'Juggling' a number of small cards is not a hazard. simply number them. Smaller cards work equally as well as 'tertiary' backup. I do exactly that, rather than hump a laptop around. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdriceman Posted June 25, 2011 Share #326 Posted June 25, 2011 Card failure is most likely to happen with the insertion or removal from the camera or readers, so larger cards minimize that (not to mention the even-more likely hazards of card loss or mix up when you are juggling a number of smaller cards). With that in mind, I use 32-gig cards and upload the images at the end of each day or shoot. On longer trips, two or three cards will suffice and also act as tertiary backup--I don't erase them or reformat until the end of a trip. It looks like different people have different methods. I'm going to stick with my method which works very well for me. Multiple, 4 or 8 GB cards, frequent uploads. I have rarely had a card failure and rarely lose a card. Until that changes, I am going to stay conservative. Diversified portfolio. Less eggs in one basket. Also, if you're really concerned about removal and insertion of a card you can always connect your M9 and download directly to the computer. It takes longer, but you don't have to remove the card. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricC Posted June 26, 2011 Share #327 Posted June 26, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) Now, couldn't I use the APO code and use it on the TE?Then, at least I would have a 135mm Exif marking with the correct frame lines - it seems. All on auto of course. Best, K-H. I also have had the mount for my Tele-Elmarit 135/4 machined by Malcolm Taylor. I have just finished re coding it as the APO-Telyt 135 and sure enough it is now recognised as a 135mm lens by the camera. Excellent, Cheers Chris Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_tribble Posted June 29, 2011 Share #328 Posted June 29, 2011 Glad Malcolm was able to help - he does an excellent job! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniel buck Posted July 5, 2011 Share #329 Posted July 5, 2011 I love the liveview option !!! eh? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter H Posted July 5, 2011 Share #330 Posted July 5, 2011 "I love the liveview option !!!" eh? Don't worry. Its only available to those who bought the Madoff limited edition. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuyonyConnexion Posted November 12, 2011 Share #331 Posted November 12, 2011 I can report that the Zeiss ZM 18mm f:4 too (coded as a pre-ASPH 21mm Elmarit, via a bayonet change) is now about as good as my ZM 25mm, that is perfectly OK. I did not really expect this. The old man from the Age of the Hologon Where do you change you bayonet on a Zeiss to get them coded ? Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lars_bergquist Posted November 12, 2011 Share #332 Posted November 12, 2011 Jon Millich did it for me. But Will van Manen Kamera-Service has coded a 90mm Elmarit-M for me too. LB Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyalf Posted November 12, 2011 Share #333 Posted November 12, 2011 In the interest of full disclosure, I am a dumbass. I was convinced the red-edge problem with the 21 NON-asph and the 4/21 and 4.5/15 CV lenses had not improved with the new firmware. Well, my bad. And I mean my really bad. I was shooting a white wall, with the camera in "A" mode and +2 exposure compensation. Or so I thought. I failed to hit the "SET" button the second time after scrolling to +2. So yeah, my shots all looked very vignetted with color casts at the edges. That was because the camera was actually still on "0" exposure comp, and thus my shots were all underexposed 2 stops. In my [admittedly very weak] defense I never used exposure comp before, and rarely ever use A mode. But I just wanted to set the record straight. All the above lenses are definitely improved. Higher ISOs than 160 still show some red-edge, but probably 99% won't need Cornerfix. BTW, if anyone has a 1.9/28 CV lens, I found that the codes for the NON-asph Elmarits (both seem about the same) work very well, and lots better than the code for the 28 Summicron. Now to experiment with the 12mm CV. Hi and thanks for information. There is however something I dont understand: "All the above lenses are definitely improved.". Do you mean that some lens profiles have improved in the new firmware update, and what profiles are you using? Its hard for me to see how else the issues with wides can be improved by firmware since this is the only way for the M9 to know that a wide is used and then correct images. Also such a improvement is not listed by Leica. In fact the only improvement seem to be a bug fix for reading some SD cards. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyalf Posted November 12, 2011 Share #334 Posted November 12, 2011 Hi, My understanding is if it works dont fix it. So what is the update about? Reading the Leica documentation this is only a bug fix related to faults in reading SD cards. So since I have no problems with my current M9 and SD cards used I will certainly NOT take the big risk of updating. Or am I missing out something here? P.S. I have tried to follow this thread, but might have missed something. Sorry if my question is already answered. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomB_tx Posted November 12, 2011 Share #335 Posted November 12, 2011 Hi and thanks for information. There is however something I dont understand: "All the above lenses are definitely improved.". Do you mean that some lens profiles have improved in the new firmware update, and what profiles are you using? Its hard for me to see how else the issues with wides can be improved by firmware since this is the only way for the M9 to know that a wide is used and then correct images. Also such a improvement is not listed by Leica. In fact the only improvement seem to be a bug fix for reading some SD cards. This thread is old, and refers to the previous update (1.162) - not the latest release which is only an SD card fix. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyalf Posted November 13, 2011 Share #336 Posted November 13, 2011 This thread is old, and refers to the previous update (1.162) - not the latest release which is only an SD card fix. Thank you, my mistake by not reading the first post carefully. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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