On Fri, Nov 18, 2016, at 06:14, Chris Chiappa wrote:

> > I have the Oly, and it's a great little lens, but does need a fair
> > amount of correction, which is well provided for in lensfun currently
> > (I spent some time getting the vignetting right, which varies quite a
> > bit with focus distance, in such a way that always applying the
> > correction for infinity does some not-so-nice over-correcting at close
> > range). 

> Hi, I believe that I was the one who submitted the original data for
> this lens.  I only calibrated at infinity because my camera at least
> (Panasonic GX-7) does not seem to record the focal distance anywhere I
> can see in the EXIF.  Do other cameras do better here, or do you just
> do a lot of manual fiddling with the correction?

The Olympus E-PL6 gives reliable values for focus distance in exif tag 0x0305, 
which at least exiftool knows about:

 http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/TagNames/Olympus.html

I don't know about previous Olympus m43 models, but I do know that while the 
field existed in my XZ-1 and XZ-2 compacts, it was pretty much garbage. It's 
useful information for vignetting correction on at least *some* lenses, so 
hopefully it will become common. There's no similar FocusDistance tage listed 
for Panasonic, though, as far as I can tell:

 http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/TagNames/Panasonic.html

although I suppose it's possible that it exists but hasn't been "discovered" 
yet...

Incidentally, I've been using the following correction line in my personal 
lensfun database for the 25/1.8, it uses the simpler, less computationally 
expensive poly3 model, which seems well suited to the distortion of this lens:

  <distortion model="poly3" focal="25" k1="-0.002282"/>

If you agree that it performs well, it could be swapped into the official 
database...

-- 
jys

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