Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/21

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Subject: [Leica] 6 Bit Coder?
From: henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:23:24 -0700
References: <COL119-W63408D8FC1C2AAB88FE82F82C00@phx.gbl> <COL119-W7B0401EC8D24D28B18E9882C00@phx.gbl> <COL119-W39ED6B3BFAC65CEA919DB82C00@phx.gbl> <COL119-W1889637A2827954DAEC24982BF0@phx.gbl> <37696712-3939-4F3C-A071-81B231D482CC@gmail.com> <3AD60636-7BE3-46CF-9DCE-0226B976CCE1@frozenlight.eu> <020a01ca5211$13a87810$3af96830$@net> <31218886-EFF5-454F-85B2-B1306E947D4F@frozenlight.eu> <020d01ca5215$f62e9800$e28bc800$@net>

I got this last year when talking to a technician; there is 
apparently not that much data capacity in the firmware area of the 
M8. How true this is I have no way of knowing, but it makes sense 
AFAIK.


At 11:16 PM -0700 10/20/09, Frank Filippone wrote:
>Looks the same as the USA list, to me at least.....
>
>I got my flanges back from Milich yesterday, and finished updating my lenses
>today.  They all work, and I did get that tiny spring on my 3E.....
>
>I am contemplating updating more..... 21 and 24 maybe......
>
>Speaking of the M8, and especially of frustration of not having the M8 be
>able to accept a manual coding.....  I am really surprised that there is not
>some computer oriented M8 user that has hacked through the M8 FW and figured
>out the necessary code changes.....
>
>Frank Filippone
>red735i at earthlink.net
>
>
>
>
>Yes, there are certain lenses that cannot be coded, that's why I said
>"many" and not "all". The 50mm Summilux is among them, I have  one of
>those as well.
>
>

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