07-29-2010, 11:03 AM
Ok, we'll do that. I will send you the details of my bank account. A purely optical MTF testing lab costs just a quarter to half a million EUR. :-) In the real life we've to observe our costs, of course.
If we followed your suggestion the reverse question would occur - whether our pure lab test results would actual apply to the results obtained from an image sensor.
As you may have noticed we are updating our test cameras. We've upgraded from 8mp to 15mp for Canon APS-C tests and we'll do the same for Pentax and Nikon very soon.
The test procedure is not custom-made but an out-of-the-box solution which is also used by http://www.imatest.com/customers (you may spot Canon in there for instance).
If you check the documentation you may also spot a section where the manufacturer explains how they can look beyond Nyquist (the characteristic of test target is known).
If we followed your suggestion the reverse question would occur - whether our pure lab test results would actual apply to the results obtained from an image sensor.
As you may have noticed we are updating our test cameras. We've upgraded from 8mp to 15mp for Canon APS-C tests and we'll do the same for Pentax and Nikon very soon.
The test procedure is not custom-made but an out-of-the-box solution which is also used by http://www.imatest.com/customers (you may spot Canon in there for instance).
If you check the documentation you may also spot a section where the manufacturer explains how they can look beyond Nyquist (the characteristic of test target is known).