3:2 and 4:3 equivalent how?

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Steen Bay
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Re: 3:2 and 4:3 equivalent how ?
In reply to Steen Bay, 4 months ago

Steen Bay wrote:

Detail Man wrote:

Rens wrote:

Macx wrote:

I've wondered whether the focal length is before or after any distortion correction myself. Are you sure that the focal length corresponds to the uncorrected view?

I opened the ORF in a trial copy of (I think) Capture 1 and found wide angle images were wider than jpegs (as well as distorted).

ExifTool reports the image-width and image-height of an E-M5 ORF RAW image-file recorded with 4:3 aspect-ratio as 4640x3472 - representing only a 0.694% increase in width and a 0.463% increase in height (relative to 4608x3456).

The corresponding diagonal pixel-dimension is only 0.579% larger in value as a result.

Using the 3.73 Micron pixel-pitch that published DxOMark information lists for the Olympus OM-D E-M5, the (diagonally-referenced) Focal Lengths are the following proportions (as compared to the 43.267mm diagonal of a 36mm x 24mm 35mm film frame-size divided by a Crop Factor of 2.0).

1.009248 times Focal Length for 4608x3456

1.003118 times Focal Length for 4640x3472

Lots of processing is going on. The corrected image is stretched/interpolated so that it has the output size that the specs say it should have.

PS - Here's a more extreme example, showing how a 24mm equivalent LX3 image looks before and after being 'corrected' :

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/post/33487113

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