Thanks Joe, Thibs and Matthew. Your comments come very much in line with my own suspicions.
1. It seems that software developers are left to figure out the codes themselves. 2. I do not believe that eg. Adobe receives any information directly from Pentax. 3. Third party lenses are problematic regarding codes. Some have non-unique codes. The latter is not a case of sheer software recognition, though. It might as well be the camera that attributes the wrong code in the first place. It strikes me that for this to work smoothly, some independent body would have to maintain public lists of lens IDs. Snowball's chance in hell that would happen. :-( Jostein 2009/7/28 AlunFoto <alunf...@gmail.com>: > My own observation on lack of recognition for the DA 60-250 and > Miserere's comment about ambiguous interpretation of Tokina lenses > made me wonder. I had a quick look around the web, and it seems a lot > more common than I imagined. > > So... what does it take to have software recognise a lens? Obviously > they need the code and the lens name, to map one against the other. > But I can't help wondering who provides the data. Does every software > vendor have to figure out this mapping themselves? Is it provided by > the camera/lens makers? > > Jostein > > -- > http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ > http://alunfoto.blogspot.com > -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
