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Measuring sharpness

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For generations photographers have valued a very ‘sharp' lens. The only problem is, how do you tell what is a ‘sharp' lens? When I first started to become interested in such things the metric was ‘line pairs per millimetre. The way this was measured was to photograph a test target consisting of alternate stripes of black and white. The test

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