Why no in-camera CA correction on Olympus bodies?

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Pikme
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Re: Why no in-camera CA correction on Olympus bodies?
In reply to Anders W, 4 months ago

Anders W wrote:

Back when Olympus released first m4/3 cameras and lenses, they actually stated that they were going to implement CA correction as soon as they could.

That's interesting and new to me. Do you have a link to the source where they said that?

I can't find the link but it was from an interview with Olympus by dpreview or perhaps Imaging Resource, when the EP1 was new.  Interesting to me, when I tried to look for the statement, I instead pulled up lots of very current research papers (some by Olympus but with respect to microscopes) regarding different methods of correcting lateral CA from photographs. Apparently it is a hot issue for people other than forum photographers.  

In any case, the fact that even Panasonic 4/3 lenses had more CA than Oly 4/3 lenses is perhaps what drove Panasonic to be more advanced with respect to providing tools to remove it in camera.

I think it might be the other way around. The lenses for MFT were not a given. All were new designs. Panasonic chose to allow a bit more lateral CA in order to improve other things (other optical properties, size, cost) and correct it in software. Olympus chose to stick to optical correction only. In view of the fact that lateral CA can be corrected so easily and so well, I think Panasonic's choice is preferable. Furthermore, even if you try to fight lateral CA optically, some evidently remains, in which case there is no excuse for not software-correcting what remains.

I think we are actually saying the same thing here.

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