Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/22

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Subject: [Leica] ONT: prescient m8 exif
From: shino at panix.com (Rei Shinozuka)
Date: Thu Jan 22 06:02:06 2009
 
i have an off-brand lens with LTM to M adapter (a voigtlander 28/1.9)
which of course is uncoded, and most image info shows up as 0mm (uncoded), 
but i was surprised that a few (less than
10%) of the images i took with the M8 actually correctly recorded "28mm" 
as the focal length.  this seems to be a totally intermittent phenomenon,
sometimes a series of images will have 0mm, then one will say 28mm, then
more 0mm.

i am mystified!

does the m8 perhaps use the viewfinder selector to make a guess?  i
recall sun tam exploring this possibility in an LHSA Viewfinder article.

i'd be fascinated to hear if anyone else has seen this phenomenon?

-rei

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Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com
Ridgewood, New Jersey
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