claudiocambon
Newbie
Hi folks,
This is my first post on this forum. The scent of the M8 led me here, and it may keep me here a while! (I edited this post, and so, if it posts twice, my apologies.)
My question concerns the adaptability of my favorite lens to the M8, namely the 35 f1.4 Summilux Aspherical Type 1 (yup, the kind that says Aspherical on the lens, not Asph.!). I went to the summilux.net page and it said that the Summilux Asph. would be supported for encoding, or anything made after 1994. I think the Type 1 is slightly older. Does this mean that it can't be adapted/won't work by not showing up the right lines? Any ideas or better yet something resembling facts? Thanks in advance for any info. Cheers!
Claudio Cambon
This is my first post on this forum. The scent of the M8 led me here, and it may keep me here a while! (I edited this post, and so, if it posts twice, my apologies.)
My question concerns the adaptability of my favorite lens to the M8, namely the 35 f1.4 Summilux Aspherical Type 1 (yup, the kind that says Aspherical on the lens, not Asph.!). I went to the summilux.net page and it said that the Summilux Asph. would be supported for encoding, or anything made after 1994. I think the Type 1 is slightly older. Does this mean that it can't be adapted/won't work by not showing up the right lines? Any ideas or better yet something resembling facts? Thanks in advance for any info. Cheers!
Claudio Cambon
Mark Norton
Well-known
You will be able to use the lens, it will show the correct frame line pair (the current suggestion is 24/35mm) and will provide a field of view around 47mm, so pretty much the new "standard lens" for this camera.
If it's not coded, certain functions will not be available. We don't yet know what the extent of them will be but it's safe to assume storing the focal length in the RAW EXIF header, adjusting the reflector of a dedicated flash unit and some vignetting correction will be among the functionality provided.
If you look at the scans of my coded lenses, the current 35mm f1.4 is among them and you can compare the fixing screw positions with your lens. On at least one of my other lenses, Bob Ross pointed out that they reduced the number of fixeing screws to 5 from 6 because one of them was in the middle of the coding area.
If it's not coded, certain functions will not be available. We don't yet know what the extent of them will be but it's safe to assume storing the focal length in the RAW EXIF header, adjusting the reflector of a dedicated flash unit and some vignetting correction will be among the functionality provided.
If you look at the scans of my coded lenses, the current 35mm f1.4 is among them and you can compare the fixing screw positions with your lens. On at least one of my other lenses, Bob Ross pointed out that they reduced the number of fixeing screws to 5 from 6 because one of them was in the middle of the coding area.
Rayt
Nonplayer Character
I use the same lens on the RD-1 and it is equally beautiful on film and digital. I don't know what the coding does but I wouldn't want the camera to change the vignetting or anything else when many post processing options are available.
jaapv
RFF Sponsoring Member.
Optically the differences between the Aspherical and ASPH are minimal to virtually non-exixtent.I would simply E-mail Leica and ask.And welcome on the forum. If I read your post correctly we may expect to see your gallery in the beginning of November 