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.
>
> Anyways, it's an interesting thing that's being done. And yes, I've
> already updated my 12-60. Used Oly Master, went without a hitch (unlike
> some people on dpreview, ferinstance).
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