BMPCC and lens correction

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Thomas Thiele

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BMPCC and lens correction

PostWed Aug 14, 2013 12:06 pm

Hi,

since I have some remaining hope that my preordered BMPCC will arrive someday, I have a question in advance:

Some µFT lenses are corrected via software in the camera itself or in Photoshop CameraRaw.

Does the BMPCC apply the correction (distortion, vignetting, cromatic aberration) as well? Or will I get the objektiv's "pure performance" which could be bad in some cases?

Thomas
BMPCC, Lumix G3, GF3
pana 7-14, SLRM 12/T1.6, sigma 19, pana 20/1.7, pana 14-42, pana 45-150,
pentacon auto 29/2.8, 50/1.8, 135/2.8.
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Re: BMPCC and lens correction

PostWed Aug 14, 2013 12:23 pm

As discussed in this forum a couple of times: the PMPCC doesn't unwarp the images like olympus/panasonic mft-cameras do. But due to its high crop factor the distortions are not as severe as seen in lens reviews.
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Re: AW: BMPCC and lens correction

PostWed Aug 14, 2013 12:38 pm

If adobe camera raw knows your lens then it's simple.
Use Lightroom instead of Resolve Light. It doesn't require a special graphics card and works well as long as you don't want to interpolate any values over time.
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Re: BMPCC and lens correction

PostWed Aug 14, 2013 2:15 pm

Maybe thats a solution. But at the moment camera raw don't know the lens. But - I assume - gets the correction data in the Raw-Image-File from the camera.
BMPCC, Lumix G3, GF3
pana 7-14, SLRM 12/T1.6, sigma 19, pana 20/1.7, pana 14-42, pana 45-150,
pentacon auto 29/2.8, 50/1.8, 135/2.8.
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Re: BMPCC and lens correction

PostWed Aug 14, 2013 6:57 pm

The mirrorless pana/oly cameras have lots more of raw pixels to work with when they do the image correction, so don't expect the same (almost invisible) correction quality when you work with the native 1080 footage of your Pocket CC.

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