So I recently purchased an used 90mm Elmarit-M lens, but it was not 6-bit coded. For a lazy person like me, the 6-bit coding means the lens name will be automatically imported into Lightroom so save me the step of using LensTagger plugin. I've seen some sold-from-china code-able mounting flanges on eBay that some had success with, so I decided to give it a try. I received the mounting flange about a week ago and quickly put it on and was ready to write a post about it, but it didn't work very well. After I colored in the code using black sharpie pen, not only was the 6-bit not recognized by the camera, I also noticed a significant front-focus caused by the new flange. Cheap lesson learned.
Since that didn't work, I searched and found that many had sent their original mounting flange to John Milich for milling the 6-bit code slots. It turns out that he was also a member of the forum I visited often, so I got in contact with him and quickly mail it out to him. Today, it was returned. It worked nicely, but not without some fuss. I thought it was because the black sharpie ink on the newly milled surface is too shiny and my pen is too thick to color in the corners, causing the camera to not recognize the code, so I filled the slots with some white-out and then color in the code again. It worked! With still some day light out, I quick went out for some shots.
Since that didn't work, I searched and found that many had sent their original mounting flange to John Milich for milling the 6-bit code slots. It turns out that he was also a member of the forum I visited often, so I got in contact with him and quickly mail it out to him. Today, it was returned. It worked nicely, but not without some fuss. I thought it was because the black sharpie ink on the newly milled surface is too shiny and my pen is too thick to color in the corners, causing the camera to not recognize the code, so I filled the slots with some white-out and then color in the code again. It worked! With still some day light out, I quick went out for some shots.
The lens performed just like it did before. Tonight, while processing the images, I decided to give some Lightroom presets a try. There are lots of free Lightroom preset available on the web, you just need to search a bit and try out a lot to find a few that's good. Hope you'll enjoy these images.
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