Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>If its only for EXIF data then why are they refusing to put it on >older lenses? Seems like free money to put "Summicron 50mm" in the >exif for $125 Good question. I guess that they have to draw the line somewhere. There many versions of the same lens -- how many 50mm Summicrons have there been? And IF -- a BIG if -- there was to be some sort of software adjustment based on the lens ID then each of these versions of the same lens would require something different -- in 6-bits only 64 different codes are possible so they'd run out of codes pretty fast. And they probably wouldn't want their expensive software engineers writing code for some 50 year old, obsolete lenses anyway. More probably there are limited resources available to make this modification. At $125 per lens I don't imagine that this is a big $$$ maker for Leica. Dave. -- My Photography: http://www.david-keenan.com My Blog: http://www.david-keenan.com/euroblog