[Leica] M9 - the end of the line for Leica?

[rbaron at concentric.net (Robert D. Baron)]

==On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 2:59 AM, Henning Wulff
<henningw at archiphoto.com> wrote:
> At 10:31 AM -0500 11/10/09, Richard Clompus wrote:
>>
>> <x-flowed>Larry, a brilliant synopsis of the eye and neural processing
>> that we
>> all have built-in and take for granted every day. ?No doubt the next
>> generation lenses will include software fixes in their self-contained
>> firmware.
>
>
> ?...as do the Panasonic lenses for the m4/3 system now. Distortion and CA
> correction are done in firmware/software. The software is either the jpeg
> engine in the camera or the raw converter (which has to be aware of the
> correction parameters). It works very well, and enables the tiny 7-14 zoom,
> for example to be both extremely sharp and essentially free of distortion.
>
> Some P&S cameras, like the new Canon S90 apparently also do this.
>
> You just have to use the correct raw converters. Also, with these lenses no
> one is likely to try to use them on film and find out how 'horrible' they
> are.
>

Hrmm.  Where is the correct raw converter for the S90 that will do
this, if you know?  Is it in the Canon software that came with the
camera, which I haven't bothered to load? LR doesn't do it as far as I
know and I could have used it here:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Bob+Baron/Bangkok2009/NightScenes/W_S90IMG_0084ST.jpg.html

--Bob