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Files take a long time to transfer. Jpeg basic good enough to show on an iPhone or iPad.

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Steve

 

iPhone photograph good enough to be shown. Vast overkill?

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........So it would have been nice if there was a toggle to switch on or off profile distortion correction with in-camera jpegs. The jpegs from the M240 are pretty nice as it is, and there isn't much distortion with M lenses, but switchable profile correction would be appreciated. My D800e has the option, and I almost always left it on for jpegs. Mind you, the D800e has sat on the shelf most of the time since the M240 arrived.

 

I’ll look into applying some profile to the jpegs in Lightroom, or perhaps with software that does batch processing.

 

Thanks again for your post,

Steve

 

Steve perhaps you didn't understand my posts fully.

I don't understand what you are asking correctly perhaps. Maybe you are referring to something else since is is no distortion correction applied by the camera at all. Yes other cameras do it. These M digital cameras do not.

 

Vignette correction by the camera firmware?

The default colour profile embedded in the file by the camera?

Your image processor settings?

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Steve perhaps you didn't understand my posts fully.

I don't understand what you are asking correctly perhaps. Maybe you are referring to something else since is is no distortion correction applied by the camera at all. Yes other cameras do it. These M digital cameras do not.

 

Vignette correction by the camera firmware?

The default colour profile embedded in the file by the camera?

Your image processor settings?

 

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Please allow me to clarify. I understand that the camera does *not* apply distortion correction to jpegs. (You must be getting pretty frustrated repeating it! Apologies for the misunderstanding.)

 

As I thought I was saying in my previous post, although the M240 does not do in camera distortion correction, and although I may be in the minority, I think it would be nice if on/off distortion correction to in-camera jpegs was available in a future firmware upgrade or in the next M.

 

Best,

Steve.

 

PS: Does the M240 apply distortion correction to in camera jpegs? KIDDING!!! Could not resist.

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Sigh! You want Leica to add the unnecessary that would do the miniscule so you can decide to not use it :D

To be serious, one main philosophy of M lens design and their whole image chain is to correct as much as possible optically and not at all in firmware. That is a different approach than used by other larger manufacturers in their image chains for a variety of commercial reasons. Nothing wrong with that widespread approach (micro four thirds would struggle without it for example).

However that optical excellence is really at the core of why we are willing to pay so much for Leica M lenses. At least why I am.

Look into the corners of this nearly uncropped view (Summilux 35 ASPH).

Paris on a grey day photo - Geoff Hopkinson photos at pbase.com

Look here for zero distortion correction in camera or post with the Elmar M 24

Beach scene photo - Geoff Hopkinson photos at pbase.com

 

On the other hand there is plenty of scope and possibility of nearly anything in Lightroom and Photoshop. Those are enormously powerful tools and the right place for distortion voodoo and everything else besides.

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Sigh! You want Leica to add the unnecessary that would do the miniscule so you can decide to not use it :D

To be serious, one main philosophy of M lens design and their whole image chain is to correct as much as possible optically and not at all in firmware. That is a different approach than used by other larger manufacturers in their image chains for a variety of commercial reasons. Nothing wrong with that widespread approach (micro four thirds would struggle without it for example).

However that optical excellence is really at the core of why we are willing to pay so much for Leica M lenses. At least why I am.

Look into the corners of this nearly uncropped view (Summilux 35 ASPH).

Paris on a grey day photo - Geoff Hopkinson photos at pbase.com

Look here for zero distortion correction in camera or post with the Elmar M 24

Beach scene photo - Geoff Hopkinson photos at pbase.com

 

On the other hand there is plenty of scope and possibility of nearly anything in Lightroom and Photoshop. Those are enormously powerful tools and the right place for distortion voodoo and everything else besides.

 

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"Unnecessary".. "Minuscule".. "Distortion voodoo"... "Right place"..

 

I'll still use distortion correction in Light Room and be glad if Leica decides to put them in a future M.

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