Lucky Find!

[roofus]

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I was planning to sell off some Nikon gear that I haven't used in some time. While I was looking for the box of one of Nikon lenses I found a Leica box with a black Summicron 35mm f2 inside. The lens is in mint condition. I had only used it a couple of times when I misplaced  and I presumed I had left it somewhere on a shoot and it had been lost. That was quite some time ago because the lens is uncoded. It has been sitting in a closet untouched for over 10 years. I had since replaced it with a silver one (coded.)

What a lucky day! 

How much does it cost to get it coded? The figure $350 US sticks in my mind but I couldn't find it listed on the Leica site.

 

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[luigi bertolotti]

first of all you have to verify if it is codable : some old lenses are not,  for an issue about the postion of the screws that secure the flange (I have some old lenses so made.. am not 100% sure that Summicrons 35 with this problem do exist). it it is cosable, I think that a good lab can do the job surely for less than 350$.It's also a task not difficult to be done by yourself (I did it on a 28) , btw, there is a thread on the matter in the Forum, not far from this one, at the moment ("6bit coding diy again")

Edited April 2, 2020 by luigi bertolotti

[Robert Blanko]

Hehe, I will check right away whether some of my Nikon lenses turned into a Leica lens... 😀😏

If the flange allows, preparing the coding by youself with a paint stick would not involve rocket science:

https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/4216357

[Jeff S]

If you don’t mind using US repair, give DAG (Don Goldberg) a call for an estimate.  I bet the cost would be dramatically less.

https://www.dagcamera.com/contact.html

Jeff

 

[Stein K S]

One of the six screws on the cron v4 is placed more or less exactly in the middle of the six bit coding. Have never sought for a ¨solution¨ in any way myself.

[AndreasG]

vor 3 Minuten schrieb Stein K S:

One of the six screws on the cron v4 is placed more or less exactly in the middle of the six bit coding. Have never sought for a ¨solution¨ in any way myself.

Yes, but don't worry, I also keep a V4 Summicron 50 for more than 30 years and use it with good success uncoded with a M10-D, it is still a top performance lens, the only thing that coding would provide is the EXIF data.

[Stein K S]

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Just now, AndreasG said:

Yes, but don't worry, I also keep a V4 Summicron 50 for more than 30 years and use it with good success uncoded with a M10-D, it is still a top performance lens, the only thing that coding would provide is the EXIF data.

Hi

And sure... I do not worry or care too much myself; appr half of my lenses are uncoded (I even did CLA in Germany on an 50 Elmar-M and a 90 Elmarit-M... without asking for them to get coded once they still were in Solms 🤪). I just added the short fact to the thread as it was not stated.

[adan]

27 minutes ago, Stein K S said:

One of the six screws on the cron v4 is placed more or less exactly in the middle of the six bit coding. Have never sought for a ¨solution¨ in any way myself.

Yes - but the countersunk screw-head itself makes a nice pre-drilled coding pit. All you need to do is add the black or white paint. (or in some cases, both, side by side).

I've had several 90 Tele-Elmarit-Ms (6-bit code: 000(screw)00 ) in which dark grime or dirt in that screw hole automatically "coded" the lens, and my camera recognized it.

For lenses where that pit is supposed to be white, typewriter "White-Out" (which - oddly - is still available at many office-supply stores) will make it into a white coding dot. Or at least a "blank" surface over which to add coding markings.

Edited April 3, 2020 by adan

[roofus]

1 hour ago, Jeff S said:

If you don’t mind using US repair, give DAG (Don Goldberg) a call for an estimate.  I bet the cost would be dramatically less.

https://www.dagcamera.com/contact.html

Jeff

 

Thanks for the tip Jeff

[roofus]

On 4/2/2020 at 3:05 PM, roofus said:

I was planning to sell off some Nikon gear that I haven't used in some time. While I was looking for the box of one of Nikon lenses I found a Leica box with a black Summicron 35mm f2 inside. The lens is in mint condition. I had only used it a couple of times when I misplaced  and I presumed I had left it somewhere on a shoot and it had been lost. That was quite some time ago because the lens is uncoded. It has been sitting in a closet untouched for over 10 years. I had since replaced it with a silver one (coded.)

What a lucky day! 

How much does it cost to get it coded? The figure $350 US sticks in my mind but I couldn't find it listed on the Leica site.

 

Thanks for all the info everyone. Here is a photo of the bayonet.

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[Jeff S]

DAG could certainly advise if it can be coded. But as noted, no material benefit for a 50 mm lens other than EXIF.

Jeff

[Stein K S]

Strange. This is my Cron 35 v4...

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[roofus]

Interesting. I am not sure what version mine is. I bought it around the time the M8 came out. The Fabrication Number (Serial Number?) is 03938736.

 

 

[Stein K S]

Hi and sorry. I feel somewhat stupid now. For one reason or another I was predisposed that you had the v4... You probably do not or?

[roofus]

our posts crossed in the ether: 

Interesting. I am not sure what version mine is. I bought it around the time the M8 came out. The Fabrication Number (Serial Number?) is 03938736.

Edited April 3, 2020 by roofus
can't spell worth a damn!

[Stein K S]

Mine v4 is a 37xxxxx, Erwin Puts compendium states that the v5 asph starts with 39xxxxx... yours is most certainly then the ¨last¨ asph version (however, some optical tweaks are supposed to have been made incl. a different hood in the latter production runs?).

Congrats with your new found lens 😃

[roofus]

1 minute ago, Stein K S said:

Mine v4 is a 37xxxxx, Erwin Puts compendium states that the v5 asph starts with 39xxxxx... yours is most certainly then the ¨last¨ asph version (however, some optical tweaks are supposed to have been made incl. a different hood in the latter production runs?).

Congrats with your new found lens 😃

Thanks for your help! I should have thought of Erwin! 🙂