Lens Encoding On The Cheap?

[dcsang]

Just out of curiosity, I don't know if anyone here has heard this but a photographer on another forum I belong to mentioned that, apparently, someone on the Leica User Forum has managed to encode non-Leica glass to be used on the M8 with a magic marker !!

I'm not a member at LUF so don't take my word for it but if there are members here who own M8's they may wish to check that out.

Dave

 

[cme4brain]

Just out of curiosity, I don't know if anyone here has heard this but a photographer on another forum I belong to mentioned that, apparently, someone on the Leica User Forum has managed to encode non-Leica glass to be used on the M8 with a magic marker !!

I'm not a member at LUF so don't take my word for it but if there are members here who own M8's they may wish to check that out.

Dave

I was that user from another website. You don't have to register to view the threads. A lot of M8 users were using a Sharpie marker to mark their lenses with the black dots of a Leica coded lens to fool the M8 body into thinking it had a Leica lens on it. It seems to work great for "M" lenses, but the jury is out for an LTM lens with adapter.

 

[dcsang]

I was that user from another website. You don't have to register to view the threads. A lot of M8 users were using a Sharpie marker to mark their lenses with the black dots of a Leica coded lens to fool the M8 body into thinking it had a Leica lens on it. It seems to work great for "M" lenses, but the jury is out for an LTM lens with adapter.

Maybe it's just me being lazy (wrt registering for yet another forum 😀).

That is pretty incredible then.
I wonder if this would also mean that Leica branded M-lenses could have the same done to them?

Dave

 

[Stevez4]

lens coding

lens coding

Would you explain how to code? thx

 

[Stevez4]

pleas describe how to code....thx

 

[rvaubel]

Maybe it's just me being lazy (wrt registering for yet another forum 😀).

That is pretty incredible then.
I wonder if this would also mean that Leica branded M-lenses could have the same done to them?

Dave

It works for any lens of any manufacture and it works for adapters too. Most adapters, however, have a cut-out where the coding needs to go. Older Leica adapters don't have this cut-out. I'm sure some interprising individual will get some adapters made up that have the "dots" machined in so you can color them as required.

This should be fun

Rex

 

[Stevez4]

Please specify the link. Thanks

 

[jaapv]

Oh yes- I coded my 35 Summicron asph with a marker - no problem. And then I coded my ZI Biogon 28/2.8 as a leica 28/2.8 the only glitch being that the M8 also "looks" at the frameline selection, which is wrong on the ZI. So I have to push the lever over to the right position for it to be recognized.

 

[mr roberts]

This is the thread on the Leica forum.

http://www.leica-camera-user.com/dig...ng-lenses.html

This is the index to date on the various lens codes.

http://www.realityblur.com/photography/leica_m8.html