Why no in-camera CA correction on Olympus bodies?

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

s_grins wrote:

Anders W wrote:

In what way does an Oly lens perform worse with respect to lateral CA when used on a Panasonic body than on an Oly body? And why should a RAW shooter abstain from mixing freely across brands due to lateral CA?

The problem is a real one only for OOC jpeg shooters, primarily for those who use, or would like to use, Pany lenses on an Oly body.

I do not understand why Pany lenses should be more of the problem for OOC shooters.

We were talking about mixing across brands. Using Pany lenses on Oly bodies is a problem for OOC jpeg shooters because the lateral CA that Pany intended to be corrected by the body, and is so if the body is a Pany, is not corrected if the body is an Oly. Are you with me?

I do not buy the tale about CA corrected Oly lenses; they are no better nor worse that Pany's. CA correction is a body's function, so why Pany lens should be more problematic in terms of CA correction with enabled PENS?

It's not a tale. Pany usually allows more lateral CA by design since they count on it being corrected by the body. Oly doesn't count on such correction and so make a greater effort to correct it optically. But as I pointed out in earlier posts, this is a tendency (a statistical generalization), nothing more. Oly lenses do show lateral CA in spite of the efforts to correct it optically and some Oly lenses show quite a bit.

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