Coding Voigtlander lens with Match Tech

[twopointeight]

I have an M8.2 and just got a Coder Kit for Zeiss/Voigtlander lenses from Match Technical. I marked the lenses as instructed, set the M8.2 to "Lens detection On, plus UV/IR", but still no recognition of my Skpoar 28mm 3.5. Am I missing something here? Thanks.

 

[jsrockit]

Are you sure you made the marks in the right place? Also, how are you checking to see if it is recognizing the lens?

 

[Tom Niblick]

Ahh, its probably just uncodable. You should get rid of it.
Wanna sell it?

 

[twopointeight]

I'm almost certain the marks are in the right place. I'm checking both on the camera LCD and in Lightroom for EXIF data. I'm going to borrow a coded Leica lens and check the functionality of the reader on the lens mount of the M8.2. Thanks.

 

[CVickery]

I had a similar experience when I coded my first lens. I didn't realize how dark the black needed to be. I also found that the black needed to dry a bit, to eliminate the glossyness that fooled the reader.

 

[Godfrey]

I have an M8.2 and just got a Coder Kit for Zeiss/Voigtlander lenses from Match Technical. I marked the lenses as instructed, set the M8.2 to "Lens detection On, plus UV/IR", but still no recognition of my Skpoar 28mm 3.5. Am I missing something here? Thanks.

I have the M9 and the same lens. Are you using the LTM > M-Bayonet adapter from Voigtländer, type II? This has a lightly recessed ridge where you can place the coding marks.

On the M9, you set the camera to "Auto" coding recognition and it picks it right up. The Skopar 28/3.5 does still need some CornerFix attention ... see this post I made to GetDPI:

http://forum.getdpi.com/forum/leica-m-x-r/35255-m9-color-skopar-28mm-f-3-5-fast-test.html

The M8.2 probably doesn't need quite as much adjustment since it's a smaller format, but it will likely do a better job with CornerFix correction anyway. At which point, which code you apply seems to be mostly irrelevant as the results from no code to either of the other two options is pretty close to identical.

 

[250swb]

The bayonet adapter also needs to bring up the correct framelines for the coding to work. The camera compares the framelines AND the six bit coding in recognising the lens.


Steve