What do open documents define for camera noise and dynamic-range test methods (ISO 15739 public scope, Imatest's documented definitions, EMVA 1288), and what linearity assumptions do they make?

Dynamic-range figures depend on the method: Imatest reports DR at several scene-referenced SNR thresholds (20, 12, 6, 0 dB), and EMVA 1288 splits into a Linear release and a General release for non-linear cameras or cameras whose preprocessing changes temporal noise; any DR claim must name its method, threshold and encoding handling. Curator qualifications: Documents read 2026-10-22; standards texts paywalled; no chart measured. ISO 15739 abstract and EMVA Linear validity sentence not re-read (producer). Curator amendment CA-AM-0045 (2026-10-22): EMVA Linear part of the hold lifted (C3R-0484): discovery extraction discovery/cycle3/corrections/C3-B254-FB66/work/emva_linear.txt (sha256 49191b3c...) of the cycle-2 PDF (sha256 7d9839c3..., equal to pin) contains 'Release 4 Linear can only be applied if the camera under test can actually be described by the linear model on which it is based. If these conditions are not fulfilled, the computed parameters are meaningless with respect to the camera under test'. The ISO 15739 abstract remains producer-only. Limitations: Documents read 2026-10-22; standards texts paywalled; no chart measured. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

{
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.imatest.com/docs/noise/",
      "note": "Imatest noise documentation (live); EMVA 1288 General Release 4.0, 1 Introduction and Scope"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.emva.org/wp-content/uploads/EMVA1288Linear_4.0Release.pdf",
      "note": "Imatest noise documentation (live); EMVA 1288 General Release 4.0, 1 Introduction and Scope"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.emva.org/wp-content/uploads/EMVA1288General_4.0Release.pdf",
      "note": "Imatest noise documentation (live); EMVA 1288 General Release 4.0, 1 Introduction and Scope"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261002121043id_/https://www.iso.org/standard/72361.html",
      "note": "Imatest noise documentation (live); EMVA 1288 General Release 4.0, 1 Introduction and Scope"
    }
  ]
}