[Leica] CV 1.4/40mm and 1.2/35mm on M8 - what is your experience?

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

There is no default focal length setting.

My thin Tele-Elmarit 90 gets recognized as a 90 about 85% of the 
time. It's definitely uncoded. Non of my uncoded 35mm lenses gets 
recognized.


At 1:54 PM +0000 5/15/09, FRANK DERNIE wrote:
>I would not say the default code is 35mm. Other non-coded lenses do 
>not show a focal length at all in the data file, including the tri 
>elmar at 28mm and 50mm. The only uncoded lenses which show a focal 
>length at all on my M8 are 35mm. Perhaps the only lens uniquely 
>matching the viewframe indexing mechanism at the mechanical 35mm 
>setting is 35mm????
>Frank
>
>
>--- On Fri, 15/5/09, Frank Filippone <red735i at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>>  From: Frank Filippone <red735i at earthlink.net>
>>  Subject: Re: [Leica] CV 1.4/40mm and 1.2/35mm on M8 - what is your 
>>experience?
>>  To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug at leica-users.org>
>>  Date: Friday, 15 May, 2009, 1:59 PM
>>  That's pretty fascinating.....
>>
>>  The default position is 35mm....... without coding....
>>
>>  So why code a 35mm lens and pay $175 to do so?
>>
>>  Frank Filippone
>>  red735i at earthlink.net
>>
>>
>>  I have no idea why but all my 35mm lenses are recognised as
>>  35mm by my M8,
>>  including the 35mm setting on the tri-elmar, even though
>>  they are not coded.
>>  It started after one of the firmware updates IIRC.
>>  Frank
>>


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