On 4 Dec 2003 at 18:03, John Francis wrote:

> Sure, you don't get full resolution for every possible combination of colours. A
> regular pattern of pure Red (or Blue) and black lines will resolve far less
> lines/mm than a black-and-white pattern.  You can also get nasty aliasing
> artifacts with images with a high-frequency chroma component (just like on TV).
> 
> But for real-world scenes (less than fully-saturated colours, and no chroma-
> only boundaries), or for black-and-white test patterns, algorithms that favour
> luminance over chroma will be able to resolve better than 2-pixel-wide lines.

And this is one of the main reasons that chromatic aberrations at high contrast 
boarders are so much more visible when shooting on digital media, very real-
world.

Rob Studdert
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