That being so, Panasonic models including Leica lenses would perform very little firmware corrections of CA, distortion, etc, if at all, while models including Lumix lenses would feature much heavier, extensive firmware corrections.
Simply untrue.
My LX3 has a Leica branded lens...and have CA and barrel distortion correction,applied.
This is well known and documented,on various websites,starting with DPReview
"At first glance, the distortion results are stunningly low - a camera this small with a 24mm equivalent lens would be expected to produce significantly more distortion than the barely noticeable 0.6% we measured. We wouldn't be surprised to find that a lot of clever processing is going on in the background."
"The Panasonic's correction of chromatic aberration can be seen in the label of the Martini bottle, which the Canon doesn't do."
Here's a quote from the Imaging Resource review,of the FZ35:
"And while there's most likely barrel distortion at wide-angle, you don't notice any because Panasonic likes to correct such distortion in the camera (even on Raw shots, for converters that officially support the camera's RW2 images)."
Please do some reading,before making comments...that folk here,might believe.
Opinions...and facts,are two different things,as you know
So.....Panasonic camera's ,with Leica branded lenses
do have CA and barrel distortion correction applied.
this is easily noticed , on all recent Panasonic camera's ,that shoot RAW.
Our ZS3 (TZ7) also has this barrel correction , and CA removal ....but there's no RAW format,to see the difference.The jpegs,in many Panasonic camera's (with Leica branded lenses),are corrected , for CA and barrel distortion.
Not my opinion,but proven facts.
Just wanted to make that clear,to the readers here,at DPReview.
ANAYV
