trph_2000
Established
Do you need to bother with coded lenses if you shoot only RAW ?
Bill Blackwell
Leica M Shooter
jaapv
RFF Sponsoring Member.
Yes- for lenses of 35 mm and shorter, especially if you use IR filters.
Ben Z
Veteran
You don't need to code them, but it's a whole lot less bother than not coding the wide angles. Without coding you need to repair the cyan corner effect on each wide-angle shot using a separate postprocessing step with 3rd-party software.
MikeL
Go Fish
Fred, other than the lens coding, how are you liking the M8 so far?
Cindy Flood
Established
If you are using a lens wider than 35mm you have the following choices:
No IR filter, no code: your shots will suffer from IR contamination, blacks will be some degree of magenta and foliage will not be true, at the very least.
IR Filter, no code: You will have the cyan corners that Ben mentioned. This can be fixed in processing with Cornerfix or other software.
IR filter, coding, camera menu set to IR filter ON: The M8 will correct the corners for you.
This "coding" could be handled in a menu item, but Leica has chosen not to implement this capability.
No IR filter, no code: your shots will suffer from IR contamination, blacks will be some degree of magenta and foliage will not be true, at the very least.
IR Filter, no code: You will have the cyan corners that Ben mentioned. This can be fixed in processing with Cornerfix or other software.
IR filter, coding, camera menu set to IR filter ON: The M8 will correct the corners for you.
This "coding" could be handled in a menu item, but Leica has chosen not to implement this capability.