Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/03/31

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Subject: [Leica] Inconsistent lens detection on M 8
From: grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey at mchsi.com)
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 11:27:37 -0500 (CDT)

Ted,

No more of this limited time crap!  You will probably out live all of us.  
You are active, and love what you do, which keeps you young at heart.  Yes, 
the parts creak a bit more, but they still work, so keep at it.

Cheers,
Gene

----- Original Message -----
From: tedgrant at shaw.ca
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2014 12:33:58 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: Re: [Leica] Inconsistent lens detection on M 8

ALL THAT MAYBE WELL  FOR THE TECHIE FOLKS BUT THIS IS HOW A SIMPLETON AS 
MYSELF! :-)

Copes with any lens situations as I did yesterday on a shoot during the 
celebration of one of our local hospitals celebrating raising $25 million 
dollars for a new patient care unit! :-)

In one pocket was a 90mm Summicron! A delightful lens to say the least when 
you know how to use it and where! :-) On the M8 was a 35mm f1.2 Voightlander 
lens. Yes I know Sacrilege in Leica lingo! But an incredible lens for crispy 
sharp images! :-)
Just got to love it! :-)

As the event moved along I switched lenses back and forth with a quick 
click--click and covered the event completely with available light. Actually 
quite magical in look ! :-) My biggest disappointment was I was only working 
with one M8 where in the olden golden days I'd have had 2 or 3 M8's and 
eliminated the stupid necessity of swiftly switching lenses.  However that 
was then and this is now. All images look beautiful and it does appear the 
assignment shoot was a success for my client. "THE GREATER VICTORIA 
HOSPITALS FOUNDATION."

Prints delivered Monday a.m.! :-)

It's when you still pull off an excellent shoot on assignment that makes one 
feel very good in satisfying a paying client! Particularly when you have 
days of misgivings that your days are numbered and it's becoming time to 
sell all the photo bits and pieces.
That's never going to happen as I love  this photo thing with the greatest 
passion possible! It's a calling man. A calling!:-)

And when I go? On my 100th birthday day;  27 May 2029 a Leica M of some sort 
will go with me!:-) Smile for crying out loud!:-)

Hell you never know what might be on the other side? ;-)

Always think positive and young! Do that and you will always be young at 
heart and to hell with the "Being OLD CRAP!" Old is for mentally old people! 
Me and a number of others alike, we are obviously young at heart even though 
we maybe "elders in heart NUMBER!" But we'll never grow -up! See how easy it 
can be simply because it's all about "attitude!" and SCREW THE ACHES AND 
PAINS! :-)

cheers crew!

ted


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Geoff Hopkinson" <hopsternew at gmail.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2014 2:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Inconsistent lens detection on M 8


> On the camera side you can try cleaning the 6 bit sensor panel. For your
> lenses it would depend on the quality and method  of the 6 bit coding that
> you have applied (for the non-factory coded Leica lenses). For the M8, in
> addition to having a valid and readable 6 BIT code you also need 
> frame-line
> agreement to satisify the logic. That is to say, in most instances, the
> camera expects a matching frame line set (50+75 for a 50 code etc).
>
>
> Cheers
> Geoff
> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
>
>
> On 30 March 2014 07:03, Richard Endress <rendress at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I am just getting around to coding my lenses.  I am getting inconsistent
>> results.  My 28mm f2.8 and 50mm f2.8 show up fine but my 50mm f2 and
>> Voigtlander 50mm f1.5 and 12mm f5.6 are not detected.  A Voigtlander 35mm
>> f1.7 was not detected on the first shot but detected on the second.  Any
>> ideas why the inconsistency?  richard
>>
>>
>>
>> Richard Endress
>> rendress at me.com
>>
>> http://questingbeast.zenfolio.com
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/grabshooter/
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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