[Leica] ONT: prescient m8 exif

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

I have a 90 thin T-E that is recognized correctly about 75% of the 
time. I put it down to the location of the flange screws, but haven't 
investigated it further as coding of this lens is non-consequential 
in any case.


At 9:02 AM -0500 1/22/09, Rei Shinozuka wrote:
>i have an off-brand lens with LTM to M adapter (a voigtlander 28/1.9)
>which of course is uncoded, and most image info shows up as 0mm (uncoded),
>but i was surprised that a few (less than
>10%) of the images i took with the M8 actually correctly recorded "28mm"
>as the focal length.  this seems to be a totally intermittent phenomenon,
>sometimes a series of images will have 0mm, then one will say 28mm, then
>more 0mm.
>
>i am mystified!
>
>does the m8 perhaps use the viewfinder selector to make a guess?  i
>recall sun tam exploring this possibility in an LHSA Viewfinder article.
>
>i'd be fascinated to hear if anyone else has seen this phenomenon?
>
>-rei

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