Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/12/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Richard Man wrote: > > What Leica means is a technicality. I would interpret it as "we have the > best lens for the goals we want to achieve and we don't need no stinkin' > software to compensate for them, except for the cases where we need to > compensate for them." > LOL! So everyone plays with the RAW data. I forgot that it seems that Leica characterizes each sensor and stores that data in the camera. Not in a way I would have done it though. The processor does have to make a jpg and write all the crap to the memory card and figure out exposure and, for the jpg, white balance. Plus more stuff. Do you know what cpu(s) Leica uses? > On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 1:46 AM, Dennis <dennis at hale-pohaku.com> wrote: > > >> So the RAW data is not really what is recorded in the RAW file? It's >> "tweaked" depending upon the lens attached or???? >> >> I can see the firmware controlling the amplifier gain depending upon the >> ISO selected. Also subtracting any measured dark noise from the sensor. >> >> But, I thought Leica disdained the alteration of RAW data to corrected >> lens >> distortion or CA preferring instead to fix that in the optics of their >> lenses. >> >> >> -- >> > // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> > // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.com/blog/> > // photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> > [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous > replies in your msgs. ] > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >