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Test Your Kit with Imatest
Imatest is shaping up to be an interesting development for the photographer who likes to know everything about their equipment. It is a suite of programs for testing the sharpness and image quality of lenses, digital cameras, and digitized film images using inexpensive, widely available targets. Imatest will be released in August 2004.
“With Imatest you can:
- test lens performance at different focal lengths and apertures to learn where each lens works best;
- examine the effects of camera and post-processing settings, such as mirror lock, ISO speed, white balance, RAW converter, and sharpening;
- compare the performance of different cameras, even if they have different amounts of built-in sharpening;
- compare your camera and lenses with results derived from websites such as imaging-resource.com, dpreview.com and others. This is important because quality control is far from perfect. Even premium lenses from reputable manufacturers may fail to meet expectations. With Imatest you can find out fast and return them if they are substandard. “
Website: Imatest
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#1 gene
Hmm. I checked out the web site and it looked familiar. Then looked at the bottom of the page and discovered that it's done by Norman Koren, which explained it.
I wonder how imatest would compare to DxO test suite.
9:45 pm - Wednesday, July 28, 2004
#2 Matti Harju
According to him, it offers almost the same functionality as DxO. The price will be 59 dollars (?). Of course You have to buy some test targets. I'm going to buy Imatest as soon as it is available. We will just have to wait about three weeks.
5:40 am - Thursday, July 29, 2004
#3 Matti Harju
The planned release date is 18th of August. There are a lot to digest on Imatest's web pages.
5:45 am - Thursday, July 29, 2004
#4 Norman Koren
Imatest is finally up and running! You can download an evaluation version that allows up to 20 trials, and you can purchase it for only $59 USD, introductory price. Learn more at [url=http://www.imatest.com]http://www.imatest.com[/url] You can use a target that you can print on any high quality inkjet printer for testing sharpness (MTF). But you need to purchase standard, widely-available charts for testing color, tonal scale, and camera dynamic range.
3:39 am - Sunday, September 5, 2004
#5 Mark Goldstein
Welcome to PhotographyBLOG Norman! I posted a news story about Imatest today...
http://www.photographyblog.com/comments.php?id=3621_0_1_0_C
6:54 pm - Sunday, September 5, 2004