[Leica] CODING???? is it really a necessary evil?

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I forgot to change the setting yesterday when I went from 24mm to 90mm.  Now
the photos from the 90 have fixed vignetting which was never there!  I think
I can fix it in LR.

Tina

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Phil <photo.forrest at earthlink.net> wrote:

> But the M9 needs coding even more than the M8 because the fringy
> corners are now visible. The edges formerly cut off in the M8 are
> vignetting in cyan and magenta in the M9 making coding even more
> necessary. The menu is a stopgap but if you change lenses even once a
> day the menu setting from the previous lens may still be there and then
> if you happened to go wider, you may be stuck with a nasty vignette.
> I can't wait to get all my lenses coded so I can forget about the menu
> and use the user profiles for different settings that I can apply across
> all lenses instead of using the four different user profiles to quickly
> set lens coding. PITA.
> Price of entry too.
>
> Phil Forrest
>
>
> On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:08:27 -0500
> Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
>
> > Coding strikes me as a huge reason one of very many to be shooting
> > with an M9 over an M8. You'd think a firmware fix could solve that.
> >
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