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  • 9point6@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    This is super interesting, and a project I’m gonna keep an eye on. Not least of all because I’ve got a good selection of E-mount lenses.

    One thing that’s gonna be a struggle is all the specific lens corrections in photo software obviously will not be present for this. I wonder if the body behaves optically similarly enough to an existing Sony camera to be able to reuse those profiles.

    • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 hour ago

      I’d think they’d handle this with calibration. It doesn’t need to be as sexy as commercial, it just needs to have a reasonably easy process to fix it.

      Something like when you get a new lense, you aim it at a laser difraction pattern on a clean wall.

      Now you don’t worry about minors differences in body or lenses.

    • Masta_Chief@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      4 hours ago

      If the sensor is the same size the lens corrections should be identical. Now if it communicates focal length info into the metadata (on a zoom lens), or any data for that matter, that’s a different issue

      • 9point6@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 hours ago

        I believe focal length & aperture EXIF metadata do factor into modern lens correction profiles

        It’s worth highlighting that the profiles are typically based on the combination of a lens and a body, one lens used on two different camera bodies would result in two different profiles being used