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When you see that Sony is correcting vignetting, distortion and color errors already in the RAW file*, 

 

*cp. http://friedmanarchives.blogspot.de/2012...-lens.html

also the new FE 35/2.8 and 55/1.8 seem to get in-RAW corrections.

 

Indeed, I've heard a lot about in-raw corrections, but it's definitely not the case you're quoting. In fact Friedman wrote:



 

Mind you, these settings are not applied to the image data – they’re merely a footnote in the RAW file: “Oh, by the way, here’s what the camera’s settings were”.  They’re there so that high-end RAW processing software like Bibble, DxO, or Lightroom could take note of those settings when opening the RAW file, and automatically adjust the sliders to make it look like what the camera would have produced had it been shooting a .jpg.

... adding that Lightroom automatically applies the corrections, which can't be disabled. Still, the corrections are applied in post-production. If one would like to see the raw bits, he could just convert the raw with one of the many alternatives, such as dcraw.

 

Note that I'm not denying that manufacturers already tweak RAW bits: it's that I'd like to see a proof, and anyway it's not what Friedman wrote.

 

 

Honestly, all that matters is the end user perspective so if they correct all this in the RAW file it is more or less pointless to look beyond since it is part of the genes of the system. Partially, this is already the case on Fuji as well as MFT anyway so the discussion isn't new.

If we can we provide the naked figures plus the corrected ones. If not ... well ... such is life.

 

Amen, bro.