M8 Lenses: A “secret” M-Coder Ring

[etrigan63]

Just published a review of Tim's M-Coder System over at my blog (echenique dot com). You can read the review here. Feel free to post comments about the review or subscribe to my newfeed.

 

[Catatac]

Cant open the link....

Cant open the link....

Just published a review of Tim's M-Coder System over at my blog (echenique dot com). You can read the review here. Feel free to post comments about the review or subscribe to my newfeed.

For some reason my browser times out trying to open the link. Any way you could post here ? I am getting my m-coder today anyway so I guess I am just being perverse...

 

[ernesto]

Ernesto:
This is an exceptionally good idea.

There are 2 detractors I can think of. One is the thickness of the film. If it can be held under 0.004" it may work. I have found some of my lenses fit more tightly than others. I experimented with Scotch tape, the invisible variety, with encoding marks on it, and found my lenses 'swept' it away when the lens locked, or at least tried to move the tape. If the adhesive is stronger than tape, and the thickness is, well, thin, this may prove to be a useful alternative to using an ink pen.

The second consideration is to keep the lens in alignment. A second, or better yet, a second and third equally sized auto adhesive sticker may need to be placed equidistant around the lens base to keep the lens properly lined up.

Great idea you have. Let's look at this with some experiments.

So, would that be You or me?

Please, Go ahead Tim!
Unfortunately I have not an M8 to try it.
I love what you do: design is like playing to be god, but you need to be humble enough to find your weak points!
Good luck with your tests!

Ernesto

 

[etrigan63]

That's weird considering that Google hosts my blog. Could you try again?

 

[Catatac]

Google and China are not the best of friends...

Google and China are not the best of friends...

That's weird considering that Google hosts my blog. Could you try again?

...at times. I'll try when I am back in Singapore.

 

[Symeon]

:bang: The problem is not to make the dots, it's to keep them there forever. Yeah, I can make dots.. Still, my M8 won't ever, ever tell me what was the f stop I used on a picture..

 

[etrigan63]

That's because there is no way for the lens to pass that information on to the body. M-lenses contain no electronics whatsoever. If Leica were to add electronics to the M-lenses they would cease to be M-lenses. Leica felt that for the M8 to be considered part of the M family, it had to be able to use any M lens made since 1954.