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Old 11/29/06, 11:04 AM   #30 (permalink)
mike prevette
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Default Re: Proof of concept regarding self coding of lenses

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Originally Posted by masjah
Mike

According to the review in LFI (though some dispute this) the "blue dot" gives the camera a metering which is compared with the "stopped down" TTL metering to enable it thereby to calculate the set aperture to within +/- 1 stop - which is good enough for vignetting correction purposes.

SOme people do dispute this, but I'm inclined to believe it - they wouldn't make up a story complete with specified tolerances, so I thing they got it from the horse's mouth.

Interesting, I hadn't read that. I only read that the blue dot was responsible for average ttl flash and viewfinder information brightness.

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