Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/06/23

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Subject: [Leica] My M8 FW Downlaod is wrong......
From: Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com (Frank Dernie)
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:59:13 +0100
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I have a 35mm f1.4 Aspherical which can not be coded too. It is my most used 
lens, so a bit of a shame.
Frank D
On 23 Jun, 2011, at 14:53, Frank Filippone wrote:

> My suspicion is that the on board memory ( Flash) is not big enough.
> Unless they hand code the FW to pack it more densely.  Which I suspect, the
> people in charge do not know is possible, or decide that it is too
> expensive.
> 
> OTOH, if you have a memory card in there anyway, why not execute what is
> basically a boot program from that storage and set parameters from that?
> 
> I firmly believe it is possible, but the support needed to make it happen 
> is
> lacking.
> 
> For me, and my legacy lenses, mount conversion is not possible.
> 
> Frank Filippone
> Red735i at earthlink.net
> 
> Maybe not enough ram or processor power to add it?
> It is certainly a disappointment, though I have not found it as useful on
> the M9 as I expected. Maybe it is age but I do sometimes forget to change
> settings in the heat of the moment when I change a lens. Adding the 21mm
> correction to a 50mm lens is not a gain...
> Frank D
> 
> 
> 
> 
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