{"id":399,"date":"2006-11-30T17:27:36","date_gmt":"2006-11-30T22:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/30\/hacking-leica-coding\/"},"modified":"2006-11-30T17:27:36","modified_gmt":"2006-11-30T22:27:36","slug":"hacking-leica-coding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/30\/hacking-leica-coding\/","title":{"rendered":"Hacking Leica digital lens coding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>As I posted previously [<a href=\"http:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/10\/leica-m-dig-coding\/\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/24\/leica-coding-offer\/\">2<\/a>], Leica have a coding scheme for their lenses so that the new digital M8 body can automatically identify the mounted lens. It turns out that you can use a marker to code the lenses rather than paying Leica  US $120 per lens for six dots of paint. You can use the same method to trick the body into thinking you have a different lens mounted than you actually do.<\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leica-camera-user.com\/digital-forum\/10494-proof-concept-regarding-self-coding-lenses.html\">this how-to<\/a> by Mike Prevette on the Leica user forums for details.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.auspiciousdragon.net\/photowords\/?p=298\">Auspicious Dragon Photostream<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I posted previously [1, 2], Leica have a coding scheme for their lenses so that the new digital M8 body can automatically identify the mounted lens. It turns out that you can use a marker to code the lenses rather than paying Leica US $120 per lens for six dots of paint. You can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[988,991,1062,1447],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cam-hacking-diy","tag-leica","tag-lens","tag-m","tag-rangefinder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->