M10 raw file info - update to Chromosoft blog?

[Chazphoto]

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Hi

reading around re the M10, I was pointed to the Chromosoft blog piece in which the info in several DNG files is analyses and some odd things found.  This stuff is way beyond my technical competence.  But I had two questions.  

Did any firmware update change this for the better?

Does any of it matter?   One way to measure that would be to ask if anyone is, or how many are, using the Chromosoft tool to clean up the DNG file?

thanks

chaz 

 

 

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[a.noctilux]

Chromosoft ?

No my DNG files need some cleaning when (rarely with M10) sensor is dirty, but never need cleaning otherwise.

[Chazphoto]

Argh, I misspelt ChromaSoft.  This is the blog post that I was referring to:

http://chromasoft.blogspot.com/2017/01/leica-m10-raw-file-dng-analysis.html

 

chaz

[jaapv]

Sandy is always very accurate with his analysis. This one? Nothing that impacts practical use, I would say.

[Chazphoto]

Thanks jaapv.   I do wish I understood his comments better, but that may have to be consigned into the “too little time to acquire knowledge” bucket - certainly compared to time available to make photos.   The answer would be different if the data analysis made a material impact on the photo, however.

cheers

chaz

[scott kirkpatrick]

To the OP:  The "cleanup" that Sandy McGuffog is referring to has two parts.  One is removal of a full size JPEG, included in the raw file for those apps that can't decode the DNG with default parameters.  If you don't need that, his cleaner saves you 1-2 MB per file.  The real driver of this little cleaner app was Sean Reid's insistence on seeing how the files look with and without the distortion and lateral chromatic aberration corrections that are included through OpCodes.  Originally Light room applied these whether you wanted them or not (Capture One has always left this optional, if you know where to look for the controls).  I seldom override those, so this has always seemed unnecessarily fussy to me.

So the net is your M10 DNG files don't need cleaning up.

[Chazphoto]

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Brilliant, thanks, Scott.   Exactly what I needed to know.   I’m working with Capture One, having really failed to spend any time with LR in the past, so I will hunt out those optional controls to see what difference they make.  

With the distortion corrections, they apply to 6-bit codes lenses, right, and where you have picked a lens manually?  
 

Chaz