[Leica] CV 1.4/40mm and 1.2/35mm on M8 - what is your experience?

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

But that's not the way it works. It needs something at the correct 
position for the black dots.

With my 90, there's a screw head in the area that does it, I think.



At 12:14 PM -0700 5/15/09, Richard Man wrote:
>Um, of course all 35mm can be easily detected by the M8 as 35mm, if they
>have mechanical thingie that brings up the 35mm frameline, then it's an easy
>step for the firmware to guess that it is a 35mm lens. So no big deal there.
>
>
>
>On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 4:19 AM, FRANK DERNIE
><frank.dernie at btinternet.com>wrote:
>
>>
>>  I have not had my 35 f1.2 coded but I do use the filter. I have no idea 
>> why
>>  but all my 35mm lenses are recognised as 35mm by my M8, including the 
>> 35mm
>>  setting on the tri-elmar, even though they are not coded. It started 
>> after
>>  one of the firmware updates IIRC.
>>  Frank
>>
>>
>>  --- On Fri, 15/5/09, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:
>>
>>  > From: Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
>>  > Subject: [Leica] CV 1.4/40mm and 1.2/35mm on M8 - what is your
>>  experience?
>>  > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
>>  > Date: Friday, 15 May, 2009, 7:25 AM
>>  > I know at least some of you use the 1.2/35mm on the M8, and
>>  > perhaps someone out there also uses the 1.4/40mm. What are
>>  > your experiences? What framelines does the 40 bring up?
>>  > Those using the 1.2/35mm--did you have it coded (obviously,
>>  > not by Leica) and do you use it with an UV/IR filter?
>>  >
>>  > TIA,
>>  > Nathan
>>  >
>>  > Nathan Wajsman
>>  > Alicante, Spain


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