ornate_wrasse
Moderator
I was processing some images I captured with my M9 in Lightroom 5. I only used two lenses that day. One of them was my beloved Nikkor SC 50mm 1.4, which of course is not a Leica lens, and the other was my Leica 28mm 2.8 Elmarit.
In Lightroom, it surprisingly identifies the lens as a Leica Summilux-M f/1.4. And, if that wasn't a bit crazy to read that my Nikkor 50mm 1.4 had become a Leica Summilux, it also identifies the images shot with my Leica 28mm 2.8 Elmarit as a Leica Summilux-M f/1.4.
It doesn't affect my images, so I'm not hugely concerned, but I wondered how Lightroom 5 can misclassify a lens used for an image.
Does anyone have any idea about what's going on here?
Ellen
In Lightroom, it surprisingly identifies the lens as a Leica Summilux-M f/1.4. And, if that wasn't a bit crazy to read that my Nikkor 50mm 1.4 had become a Leica Summilux, it also identifies the images shot with my Leica 28mm 2.8 Elmarit as a Leica Summilux-M f/1.4.
It doesn't affect my images, so I'm not hugely concerned, but I wondered how Lightroom 5 can misclassify a lens used for an image.
Does anyone have any idea about what's going on here?
Ellen
Corran
Well-known
Metadata from 6-bit coding, or perhaps the lack of it, or just a "guess" on the part of the software, or maybe just a default.
ornate_wrasse
Moderator
The lenses I'm using don't have 6-bit coding.
segedi
RFicianado
^ that sounds about right to me
ornate_wrasse
Moderator
I'll have to check if lens detection is set to manual on my M9 and, if so, what lens is selected.
Sounds like this could easily be the reason LR displays it as a 50mm Summilux
Thanks for the tip!
Dwig
Well-known
+1
Lr doesn't "detect" the lens used. It merely reports whatever crib note the camera body scribbled in the appropriate field in the metadata. If Lr reports the lens incorrectly it is because the camera wrote incorrect data.