Jos, I would say the manufacturer can program such information about the geometric distortion into the lens, so it would be transferred to the camera while using it, just like we have now with other lens data.
Frits Wüthrich from the UK at the moment. Jos from Holland wrote: > I see some more opportunities for small CCD cameras. What about the (much) > larger D.O.F.? I did not see much discussion about this point. > For some time > I thought that the larger D.O.F of smaller CCD size was a disadvantage for > digital photography, but I'm changing my mind for a new way of > working: take > the picture with everything as sharp as possible and add the creative > unsharpnes (including bokey) in photoshop! > For macro photography, the increase of DOF is realy very welcom! > Another advantage for the optics of small size CCD is that the difficult > compromise between all optical aspects can be broken. That would lead to > better and/or cheaper lenses. For instance allow more geometric > distosion in > favour of better sharpness and/or coma. The geometric distorsion could be > corrected digitally. This digital correction could be a one time > calibration > by showing a square to the camera and telling the camera that that is a > square. Of course at different zoom positions. Is this crazy? Or just > future?;-) > Jos - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
