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Panasonic lens on Olympus body: software corrections ?

Started Dec 24, 2019 | Questions thread
JakeJY Veteran Member • Posts: 5,442
Re: Panasonic lens on Olympus body: software corrections ?
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Funny Valentine wrote:

Hi, so when pairing a panasonic lens with an olympus body, does the in camera correction still work ? I mean the software that corrects distortions, vignetting and chromatic aberrations.

I covered this topic here:

https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/59998561

Yes, it does as long as it is a modern Olympus body with a Truepic VII or newer processor. This was the first Olympus processor to apply chromatic aberration correction.

https://www.olympus-global.com/en/news/2013b/nr130910em1e.html

Distortion correction is default in the MFT standard (and can't be turned off except via certain RAW processors), so you can expect wide support here.

Vignetting correction (officially called "shading compensation") was first supported by Olympus and then Panasonic added it starting with the G3. The cross platform support may thus be spotty for this feature given some Panasonic lenses older than the G3 may not have the profiles built into the lenses (but rather in the camera). It is also one of the correction features that can be turned completely off (toggled in camera menu).

https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/4194323

You may see people mentioning the 7-14mm which is a different issue that has to do with the differences in the UV filters between Panasonic and Olympus cameras. Detailed article here explaining the issues:

https://alanwatsonforster.org/writing/mft-purple.html

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