As usual when new Leica cameras come out, I took a quick look inside a DNG from one of Leica’s new Leica Q (Typ 116) cameras:

1. The camera is using what appears to be production software – version 1.02.
2. The camera name shows as „LEICA Q (Typ 116)“
3. The image data is 14-bit. There is no compression used in the DNG I looked at.
4. The DNG version is 1.4, with a „backward version“ of 1.3. There is a reason for this – DNG 1.3 allows for opcodes, which Leica use for lens correction.
5. In the DNG I looked at, which was shot with a „28.0 mm f/1.7“ lens, lens correction is done by a single „WarpRectilinear“ operation in the DNG.
6. In addition to the lens correction op code, there is also a „FixBadPixelsConstant“ opcode, whose function is exactly as the name states. This is not something that I’ve seen in a Leica DNG before. It’s not clear whether this is sensor specific (i.e., different Q’s would have different corrections) or common to all cameras of this model……..

Source: chromasoft.blogspot.de
 

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