Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/10

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Subject: [Leica] 6 bit permanent flange adapters: has anyone tried one?
From: john at mcmaster.co.nz (John McMaster)
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 09:55:07 +0000
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http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-news/leica-lens-codes/ says to use a 
50mm Summicron (III) setting....

I have some non-Leica lenses which I have stopped manually coding as I 
forget to take it off! 

john
________________________________________

I manually coded the 35 Summilux pre-asph I tested in the menu; I
forget too often to change this to rely on it, and all my lenses will
get 6 bit coded over the next while.  I am trying to figure out what
to do with the 50 Hexanon.  If it wasn't for that darn focus tab, I
would just get a 50 2.5 Summarit.

Marty



On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 8:07 PM, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> 
wrote:
> I have mine as a pre-asph Summicron (if you manually code it then 
> Lightroom picks it up as this), makes a big difference in colour/vignetting
>
> john
> ________________________________________
>
>
>> You have an aspherical (rather than asph)? Time to retire ;-) The 35mm 
>> Summilux pre-asph cannot be done either, but they are cheap enough 
>> (compared to an aspheric) that I took a Dremel to mine.....
>
> Some pre-asph 35 Summilux lenses have a guard on the rear part of the
> lens barrel that stops the lens working properly on the digital Ms
> with their narrower throat.  Leica won't, but again an independent
> repairer can grind this off so it works.  There is a code for the 11
> 869, 11 870 and 11 860 35 Summiluxes in the M9 and Monochrom menus,
> but it doesn't seem that a six-bit code was assigned.  Maybe someone
> clever could figure out if there is a code that activates the profile
> from the menu.
>
> Marty
>


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