[Leica] Use of M8

[rbaron at concentric.net (Robert D. Baron)]

==On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> 
wrote:

> I did notice one very peculiar thing when looking at M8 pictures last 
> night. At first, I was annoyed that Leica had reset the numbering. But OK, 
> I figured that was an inevitable by-product of the repair. ?But then I 
> noticed that the exif data includes aperture information, even for uncoded 
> lenses! And I am not talking about the maximum aperture; with both coded 
> and uncoded lenses, the M8 now tries to estimate the actual aperture used. 
> It is not always correct (some shots I took at f1.2 are variously 
> identified as having been taken at f1.4, f1.7 and even f2) but it is 
> mostly in the correct ?ballpark.
>
> The version of the firmware is the same as before, so it must be some 
> special Solms black magic :-)
>
>

Have you upgraded Adobe LightRoom in the interim?  All of a sudden I'm
seeing (in v2.6) the addition of what I would call guesses at the
aperture value in the exif data.

It doesn't improve my photographs after I've made them, but if it was
accurate it might give an occasional plonker like me some idea about
what I did right or wrong.  As it is, though, it is just one of those
little mysteries of life.

:-)

--Bob