[Leica] CODING???? is it really a necessary evil?

[rgacpa at yahoo.com (Bob Adler)]

Ted,
To?paraphrase you: if it ain't broke (and your success shows it ain't), keep 
doing what your doing...
Spend your money on sushi!
:-)
Best,
Bob
?Bob Adler
Palo Alto, CA
http://www.rgaphoto.com 




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From: "tedgrant at shaw.ca" <tedgrant at shaw.ca>
To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Tue, November 9, 2010 9:15:46 AM
Subject: [Leica] CODING???? is it really a necessary evil?

Hi Crew,
CODING?? for M series lenses on an M8 or whatever?

Here we go, stupid question for the week. Is the coding just the usual 
techie 
number stuff? Or is it absolutely necessary? Do major good things happen if 
I do 
have them coded? Or major bad things happen if I don't?

I have a CV 15mm & 21, both cut beautiful images. a Leica 35 Summilux, 90 
Summicron, & a Noctilux. Did have several others... sold them.

Not one has been marked other than maybe me banging them on something.

So I have tons of images shot with any mixture of these lenses, several have 
been published, several are for the new medical student book. But they all 
look 
cool and blow up to? make beautiful prints 18X12 on 13X19 fine art paper. 
Colour 
or B&W.

Clients have been very pleasantly surprised, I am quite happy with the 
results, 
nor do I have any qualms about the "LEICA" looking quality nice and sharp!? 
So? 
What am I doing wrong that I acquire such wonderful quality without seeing 
any 
weird looking effects in the photographs without coding?

Or am I just bloody lucky?? Yeah I know it could be me not understanding the 
techie stuff as usual. :-) But then if I did that techie kind of stuff for 
the 
past 60 years I wouldn't be where I am today.

cheers,
Dr. ted :-)
PS: Or is it merely another money making line by Leica to have older lenses 
returned for coding because some techie guy in Wetzlar on a test bench saw 
three 
microns difference and freaked out! Therefore all coding is necesary?

Last question.
"Can you actually see the difference in a print with the naked eye, coded or 
not?? If not? then like... "WHO CARES!" :-)



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