Make Your Own Digital Camera ISO Test Target

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday October 18, 2004 @12:35AM from the cool-ideas dept.

dpnow writes I run a digital photography site and came across what I thought might be an interesting story. It's about a Cornell university researcher that has reverse-engineered the design of the ISO 12233 resolution test target, used by all the best digital camera testers. These usually cost over $100 but a free pdf download of the target is available. Print it out on a good quality printer and you have your own ISO-spec test target so you can find out how good (or bad) your camera really is! "

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It's not reverse-engineered by dmadole · 2004-10-18 02:06 · Score: 4, Insightful

Can't anyone write anything tech without feeling the need to throw in a highly-charged buzzword?

If you read the chart's creator's web page, he didn't reverse-engineer anything. He created the chart from the published international specification. That's pretty much the opposite of reverse-engineering: engineering. That is, taking a set of specifications and producing a design that meets them.

But I guess that's not as interesting-sounding.