Setting up a camera lab
By Henrik Eliasson | Measuring the image quality of a camera is no small task. If you are setting up a lab for this purpose, there are quite a few considerations to take into account and expensive equipment to buy. You need to think about the room for the lab itself, its size and layout. […]
Sharpness and resolution, part II
By Henrik Eliasson | In the previous post we looked at the relation between optical resolution and sharpness. We could see that there is no clear correlation between the two. In this post we will complicate things a little by including the pixel resolution (we therefore assume a digital camera) into the mix. The last […]
Sharpness and resolution, part I
By Henrik Eliasson | Sharpness is one of the most important image quality attributes for a camera. Often, the sharpness and resolution of a camera system are confused and used interchangeably. In this post, I hope to sort out some of the confusion. Figure 1. Same scene captured with two different lenses. In Figure 1, […]