K-7 and lens correction ?

Have any of you lucky K-7 owners got any opinions about the lens correction feature of the K-7 ?

"Automatic compensation of distortion and lateral chromatic aberration (available only with DA- and DFA-series lenses)" as its says in the press release.

Does it make a noticeable difference ? On paper it looks like a useful feature, but I have not seen anyone mention it on the forum yet.

Cheers,

/Ian

It is actually pretty good. The downside is that it takes quite a bit longer to "save" a picture. When doing sports and shooting in burst, it can make you miss pictures you would have gotten if the function had been turned off.

I had it switched on for a couple days after I got the camera but for the same reason as Yves, I turned it off. It took an age to save a shot.

It would probably be useful for specific shots - perhaps an occasional architectural subject with a lens that exhibited a degree of barrel distortion at wide angles.

But for something like that, would you really want to fix it in the camera rather than the computer?

It depends how good a job the camera makes of it. In theory no, I wouldn't, but continuing advances in digital imaging keep throwing old theories away....I'd like to try it at least.

I have a Panasonic LX3 compact with the Leica 5.1mm (24mm equiv) f2 lens. Even in RAW, software lens corrections are applied. The software corrections seem to be a part of the lens spec, as it were.

Leitz say that modern technology is such that the application of software to (obviously) optical correction make this lens possible where optically it would not be.

It's a matter of opinion whether this is a good thing or not but judged on results it works wonderfully well.