A lot of AF lenses have ROM's in them, to tell the camera what lens is on,
what the capabilities are etc... I think the E1 lenses are supposed to be
able to report on their abberation/distortion pattern, for correction in
software in the camera. Sounds like Olympus uses flash memory instead of
one-time programmable chips for this info.
A neat concept -- instead of designing a lens like the 18/3.5 to render
straight lines straight, just tell the camera how much to unbend the optical
image before saving it. Make that adjustable and you have a 'fisheye zoom'
of variable warping...
Note that the Panotools program can do this kind of warping/antiwarping now,
for those who can figure out how to master its interface.
--
Jim Brokaw
OM-'s of all sorts, and no OM-oney...
on 7/2/03 2:39 PM, Moose at olymoose@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Sounds like a processor and firmware in the lenses to run the coreless
> motors.
>
> Moose
>
> Timpe, Jim wrote:
>
>> Are the lenses made of some material with morphing capabilities or
>> something?
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