There's an article about image quality on wikipedia which contains some references that might be useful, including one about information theoretic approaches to image quality assessment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_quality. There's also a link to a commercial site which offers products for measuring quality factors: http://www.imatest.com. http://www.imatest.com/docs/iqfactors/ B > On 30 Dec 2013, at 18:04, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 30 Dec 2013, at 17:56, Ciprian Dorin Craciun <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Consider the following pictures, for example, which all show a Frenchman >>> riding a bicycle, but which are very different technically. Which one is >>> the best? Why? >> >> This is a trick question... :D >> >>> B) >>> http://metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/286639?rpp=20&pg=1&rndkey=20131214&ao=on&ft=*&where=France&who=Henri+Cartier-Bresson&pos=7#fullscreen >> >> Because the answer is most likely (B), made by HCB. :) (I know >> the fable about Flickr group that dismissed this photo as unsharp.) > > It is a trick question, but the answer is not B. The answer is 'it depends on > what the picture is for'. > >> >> However indeed it proves a point: for some photos "correctness" >> doesn't matter, it's all in the moment or "look-and-feel". (Even I >> have a few "failures" that I find better when compared with their >> "correct" equivalents.) >> >> But still, for landscape or macro photography (which seems to be >> my main interest), I still find sharpness and correct exposure very >> important. >> >> Ciprian. >> >> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
