steinzeug Posted December 13, 2011 Share #1 Posted December 13, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) Maybe a silly question, but where does one access the lens menu? See the image of the LCD after the quick guide image: THE LEICA M8.2 REVIEW & FOLLOW UP ON MY M8 REVIEW Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted December 13, 2011 Posted December 13, 2011 Hi steinzeug, Take a look here Lens menu?. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
mjh Posted December 13, 2011 Share #2 Posted December 13, 2011 You mean snapshot mode? Set the shutter speed dial to S. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ming Rider Posted December 13, 2011 Share #3 Posted December 13, 2011 Lens menu, did he say LENS MENU ?!?! Sorry, that's a bit of a sore point with us M8/8.2 users Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjh Posted December 13, 2011 Share #4 Posted December 13, 2011 Surely he didn’t really mean a lens menu since the review he referred to doesn’t mention it (naturally). I think he referred to the image showing the snapshot mode in action – it features a stylized lens with an aperture ring. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lct Posted December 14, 2011 Share #5 Posted December 14, 2011 There is no lens menu in the M8 or M8.2. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ho_co Posted December 14, 2011 Share #6 Posted December 14, 2011 And remember that the snapshot mode includes shooting pointers for only a very few focal lengths. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ming Rider Posted December 14, 2011 Share #7 Posted December 14, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) There is no lens menu in the M8 or M8.2. Exactly. Oh the humiliation . . . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestMichigan Posted December 14, 2011 Share #8 Posted December 14, 2011 Hi Steinzeug, if this is old info for you, my apologies, but neither the M8 or the M8.2 have the ability to use the LCD to tell the camera which lens is Attached to the camera. This is a Feature that was given to the M9 due to all the trial-n-tribulation M8 users have to put up with when shooting with a lens which doesn't have built in 6 bit lens coding. This Coding is to tell the Camera what lens it is and therefore set exif properly and importantly to apply the correct vignetting and color corrections needed for that particular lens. A Lens Choice menu not being programmed into a sofftware upgrade for the M8 is a bit of a slap in the face because this 6bit lens coding is the easiest way to cope with the problems which come from using the almost mandatory UV/IR filters on an M8. I don't know whether the M8 is physically incapable of getting such a Menu in it's software. Doesn't mean folks don't want one either way. Sincerely Richard in Michigan Maybe a silly question, but where does one access the lens menu? See the image of the LCD after the quick guide image: THE LEICA M8.2 REVIEW & FOLLOW UP ON MY M8 REVIEW Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ho_co Posted December 14, 2011 Share #9 Posted December 14, 2011 ...I don't know whether the M8 is physically incapable of getting such a Menu in it's software.... Stefan Daniel has said that is the case: The M8 hasn't the physical capacity to accept such a change to the firmware. I think that's information included in the LuLa M9 introductory video there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steinzeug Posted December 14, 2011 Author Share #10 Posted December 14, 2011 Thanks for all the answers, yes i realize its a pretty dumb question, but i´ve always wondered.... obvioulsy makes no difference, a leica should be intuiative and "screen-less" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
geotrupede Posted December 14, 2011 Share #11 Posted December 14, 2011 In fact there is a lens menu when you use the WATE. Or when the M8 mistakenly reads a WATE (for example if you use the old CV12mm with a 28mm converter, it happens regularly) The fist time I have seen it I imagined that it was an hidden feature and the M8 was stuck and showing this by error (which could be given the electronics messing up at times). But then I have seen it several times, again and again realising that it was showing the different WATE focals so not an error but a feature after all. Now, to expand the menu to each lens does not seem to be a massive issue to me, especially as the lookup table is already there (if you have a code, then the lens is recognised by the code reader). If would be just adding few more entries in a menu that is already there. What is it? 10kB? I think that this option is not implemented because of a specific commercial choice. And not because the M8 is limited. But to be honest, not that I miss it... It all works without so. G Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjh Posted December 14, 2011 Share #12 Posted December 14, 2011 yes i realize its a pretty dumb question,but i´ve always wondered.... I’m still not sure what your question was. You had asked for a way to access the lens menu and obviously the M8 doesn’t have one, but you also referred to “the image of the LCD after the quick guide image” in Steve Huff’s review – that would have been the snapshot mode display. So which one was it? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ming Rider Posted December 14, 2011 Share #13 Posted December 14, 2011 Told you it was a sore point Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steinzeug Posted December 14, 2011 Author Share #14 Posted December 14, 2011 I’m still not sure what your question was. You had asked for a way to access the lens menu and obviously the M8 doesn’t have one, but you also referred to “the image of the LCD after the quick guide image” in Steve Huff’s review – that would have been the snapshot mode display. So which one was it? Hi, I have an M8.2 with a coded latest version summicron 50 but I don't get the LCD len image as shown in Steve H´s review whatever i do.... But hey, I am not really bothered, was just curious. thanks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjh Posted December 14, 2011 Share #15 Posted December 14, 2011 I have an M8.2 with a coded latest version summicron 50but I don't get the LCD len image as shown in Steve H´s review whatever i do.... Then it’s the snapshot mode you are after, but that mode is limited to focal lenths below 50 mm. (There is an actual ‘lens menu’ where you can tell the camera about the – uncoded – lens you use, but only the M9 has that; the M8 and M8.2 have not. But as your lens is coded the point is moot.) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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