Wow! Interesting. Phillip, I'm guessing it only means with E-mount lenses. I don't know how they could correct for non-native lenses. I mean it'd be awesome if you could take a calibration shot then say "apply this to the following pictures until I say stop". But, I doubt that's the way it works :-)
At least on cameras with "Apps" you could potentially download/buy something that does that.
I noted the German link as it was just posted up on DPR; went hunting for an update link at the UK site next; perhaps other European Sony support sites have it up too. The America's Sony support site still has no mention of this release.
One DPR user reports purple fringing showing up with a Samyang wide angle lens has been removed by the new firmware.
Just save it to your hard drive, get the hard drive out of the computer, drill a little hole in the corner, open the SD-Card door on the camera, and shake the firmware from the hard drive into the camera. I am pretty sure that is how it goes. YMMV.
But seriously, usually it is a question of copying it to a freshly formatted SD card, putting it in the camera, and finding the right menu option to start the update, unless the camera detects the firmware on there by itself, like the Leica M8 and I presume M9.
However, the NEX-7 seems to require the following process:
Convert, I think the correction is only for the E-Mount lens such as the new 10-18, the 16mm (w/wo) wideangle, and the kits at the wide end. It will not be able to help much with corner smearing... That is my complaint with the G21 (even on the 5N)...
Thanks for your input.
It means "Improvement of image quality when using a wide angle lens " with their product only , WOW , really a clever strategy !
They can't fix the problem with every legacy lens out there. Corner smearing is a hardware problem, while colorshift can be fixed with a firmware, but I don't see Sony would spend time and money to do.
hiepphotog wrote:
They can't fix the problem with every legacy lens out there. Corner smearing is a hardware problem, while colorshift can be fixed with a firmware, but I don't see Sony would spend time and money to do.
also, how would they know which lens you have mounted on the camera to correct for?
i'm pretty excited about the bracketing increase, i thought they'd never do it. still no auto iso in manual mode though. :/
