There's also shading compensation, which is in-body.
On Jan 11, 2008, at 10:35 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> My recollection was that it was the body that was supposed to be
> involved and thus the transmission of the len's own
> characteristics. I
> wouldn't have gotten at all excited and remembered this if it had
> simply
> been post-processing. Nice, but not exciting or memorable. But I can
> see why Oly might have forgotten it.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
> Garth Wood wrote:
>> Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>>> When 4/3 was first introduced Oly made a point of saying that the
>>> lenses
>>> would communicate to the body their distortion and vignetting
>>> characteristics with the implication being that the body would
>>> magically
>>> adjust for that. I've never heard any more about it.
>>
>> The *body,* no. But their own RAW processing software appears to
>> do at
>> least some of that (Studio, I b'lieve -- I think Master's too
>> brain-dead
>> for that kind of adjusting...). Essentially, Studio's rumoured to
>> have
>> "PTLens-like" capabilities in this area.
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