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From footage of a test chart, what can an agent measure (sharpness, tone response, noise, dynamic range) and what prerequisites do open test documents imply?

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From chart footage an agent can estimate SFR and per-patch SNR only after linearising the tone response (gamma), avoiding clipped edges and handling edge angle; log encoding, sharpening, noise reduction and heavy compression break linear-model assumptions, so video-camera measurements need the non-linear treatment or must be labelled as approximate. No cinema/video-codec-specific method was found in these sources.

From chart footage an agent can estimate SFR and per-patch SNR only after linearising the tone response (gamma), avoiding clipped edges and handling edge angle; log encoding, sharpening, noise reduction and heavy compression break linear-model assumptions, so video-camera measurements need the non-linear treatment or must be labelled as approximate. No cinema/video-codec-specific method was found in these sources. Curator qualifications: Documents read 2026-10-22; standards texts paywalled; no chart measured. Synthesis by producer; Imatest default gamma 0.5 not re-read. Limitations: Documents read 2026-10-22; standards texts paywalled; no chart measured. Evidence status: curator/producer inference or synthesis from the cited sources (code read, not executed, where code is cited); correlated desk review (Claude); not independently reviewed.
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  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.imatest.com/docs/noise/",
      "note": "Imatest eSFR ISO instructions; EMVA 1288 General 4.0 scope"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.imatest.com/docs/esfriso_instructions/",
      "note": "Imatest eSFR ISO instructions; EMVA 1288 General 4.0 scope"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.emva.org/wp-content/uploads/EMVA1288Linear_4.0Release.pdf",
      "note": "Imatest eSFR ISO instructions; EMVA 1288 General 4.0 scope"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.emva.org/wp-content/uploads/EMVA1288General_4.0Release.pdf",
      "note": "Imatest eSFR ISO instructions; EMVA 1288 General 4.0 scope"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://library.imaging.org/admin/apis/public/api/ist/website/downloadArticle/ei/34/9/IQSP-357",
      "note": "Imatest eSFR ISO instructions; EMVA 1288 General 4.0 scope"
    }
  ]
}

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  • [inference] From chart footage an agent can estimate SFR and per-patch SNR only after linearising the tone response (gamma), avoiding clipped edges and handling edge angle; log encoding, sharpening, noise reduction and heavy compression break linear-model assumptions, so video-camera measurements need the non-linear treatment or must be labelled as approximate. No cinema/video-codec-specific method was found in these sources. · locator: Imatest eSFR ISO instructions; EMVA 1288 General 4.0 scope source

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