New Leica Summilux M 35mm FLE II lens coding same as previous version

[lct]

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[mujk]

23 hours ago, ELAN said:

There's no need to develop different lens profiles.  And we're not talking lens correction.  We are simply trying to record a lens model number in image metadata using the current interface.  Please re-read my posts above to understand how that would work.

It seems that Leica did not foresee or prioritise the need by users to record detailed lens information when designing the 6-bit coding system, nor did they make it particularly easy to manually select the lens type when using uncoded lenses. Also, the manual section explaining lens detection mentions the possibility to do lens corrections as the first item in the usage list, so it may well be that this set the original requirements for coding implementation.

Edited January 8, 2023 by mujk

[lct]

1 hour ago, mujk said:

It seems that Leica did not foresee or prioritise the need by users to record detailed lens information when designing the 6-bit coding system [...]

I see only two ways to improve this in praxis, either by giving a separate code number to each version of lenses, which seems hard to achieve and (to me at least) uncalled for, or  doing like the digital CL which prompts to know which M lens to select when two of them are attributed the same code number. I may be wrong again...