Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/11/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]With my CV 15 and 21, I often get cyan vignette, which is a pain to get out of the shot. My coded 21mm Leica lens doesn't exhibit that fault. On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com>wrote: > Ted it won't make any difference that you would care about with your 35, 50 > and 90. > the 15 and 21 will vignette more and maybe have coloured corners but you > might not notice that for many shots. > It helps for identifying the lenses afterwards. Since you already have > hundreds of thousands of shots without that info, I doubt that you care. > It helps with flash. I KNOW you don't care! > Cheers > Geoff > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman > > > On 10 November 2010 03:15, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote: > > > Hi Crew, > > CODING? for M series lenses on an M8 or whatever? > > > > Here we go, stupid question for the week. Is the coding just the usual > > techie number stuff? Or is it absolutely necessary? Do major good things > > happen if I do have them coded? Or major bad things happen if I don't? > > > > I have a CV 15mm & 21, both cut beautiful images. a Leica 35 Summilux, 90 > > Summicron, & a Noctilux. Did have several others... sold them. > > > > Not one has been marked other than maybe me banging them on something. > > > > So I have tons of images shot with any mixture of these lenses, several > > have been published, several are for the new medical student book. But > they > > all look cool and blow up to make beautiful prints 18X12 on 13X19 fine > art > > paper. Colour or B&W. > > > > Clients have been very pleasantly surprised, I am quite happy with the > > results, nor do I have any qualms about the "LEICA" looking quality nice > and > > sharp! So? What am I doing wrong that I acquire such wonderful quality > > without seeing any weird looking effects in the photographs without > coding? > > > > Or am I just bloody lucky? Yeah I know it could be me not understanding > > the techie stuff as usual. :-) But then if I did that techie kind of > stuff > > for the past 60 years I wouldn't be where I am today. > > > > cheers, > > Dr. ted :-) > > PS: Or is it merely another money making line by Leica to have older > lenses > > returned for coding because some techie guy in Wetzlar on a test bench > saw > > three microns difference and freaked out! Therefore all coding is > necesary? > > > > Last question. > > "Can you actually see the difference in a print with the naked eye, coded > > or not?? If not? then like... "WHO CARES!" :-) > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Regards, Sonny http://sonc.com/look/ Natchitoches, Louisiana USA