Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, my thoughts are that the camera records the corrected data AS the RAW file. Yes, the EXIF may tell you which lens, but basically, the corrections are already done. I guess you could go backwards and un-correct in the computer, but why? Think of this as correcting a lens aberration. After the engineer has corrected out the aberration, why would you ever want to put it back in? Why would you allow the user to fiddle with the control? I think there is a more compelling reason to build it into the camera.... Then you do not need to hire some programmer to write a special add in for some ( or MANY !!!!) computer programs to make it actually work, then maintain that software for all eternity on all the platforms, and with several versions of SW revisions.... Given that this is the first ( and maybe only for the forseeable future) camera company to need or employ individual pixel gain calibration, it is not an easy job to convince PS to incorporate it into their program. It would need to be supported by Leica. Personally, this would be my reason to build it into the camera, if I were King. I have always thought that 6 bits, or 64 different algorithms sounded small for all the past lenses, plus all future lenses from Leica. If corrections were based upon FL, then you might need.. ( 14, 16, 18, 21, 24, 28, 35, 50 ) something like 8 different states for the indicator... not 64. If it were based upon angle of optical rays, then each lens design would require its own correction algorithm. 64 sounds small.... ( 14, 16, 18, 21 Tri-E, 21 SA, 21 Elmarit, 21 ASPH; 24 Elmarit, 24 ASPH, 28 Elmarit V1, V2, 28 ASPH Summicron, 28 ASPH Elmarit, 4 versions of the 35 Summicron, 3 versions of the 35 Summilux, ASPH versions of each, 10 versions of 50 Summicron and other F2, another 6 or so versions of the 50 Summilux, etc etc....) but maybe that is right... As soon as someone has a real life camera, this question will be quickly answered...... Frank Filippone red735i@earthlink.net