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It seems the metadata for the lens have changed compared with the M9.

M9: Leica Summilux xxxxx

M240: Summilux xxxxx

It means, when searching for pictures taken with a specific lens in Lightroom you have to search twice, because pictures taken with M9 have the Leica name included in the lens name, and the M240 have not.

Are there others there have made the same observation?

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No, the lens metadata haven't changed. For a 6-bit-coded Summilux-M 50 mm Asph, for example, the metadata stored in the image file are: lens type = 32, frameline = 3, focal length = 50, max. aperture value = 1.

 

The names you're seeing in Lightroom are Adobe's interpretation of these data. No idea why they're coming up with different lens names, depending on the camera model. An interesting observation anyway! Until now, I haven't noticed, but now I'm seeing the same issue in Adobe Bridge CS6 (with Camera Raw 8.1).

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As an example you can see how the lenses show up in LR.

All lenses beginning with the Leica name is from the M9 camera

It is the same lens used with both cameras.

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As an example ...

They don't just leave out the "Leica" name—they also switch from the American style ("50 mm f/1.4") to the German style of lens description ("1:1.4/50") but leave out the "mm" and stick to the decimal point. Weird! That doesn't make any sense. What's going on in Adobe's heads? New person in charge needs to make things different, for the sake of being different, in order to feel important?

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They don't just leave out the "Leica" name—they also switch from the American style ("50 mm f/1.4") to the German style of lens description ("1:1.4/50") but leave out the "mm" and stick to the decimal point. Weird! That doesn't make any sense. What's going on in Adobe's heads? New person in charge needs to make things different, for the sake of being different, in order to feel important?

 

Again, WTF is Leica thinking? Have they outsourced firmware to Mars?

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