"How to Measure" series by Dr. Theuwissen

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In his Harvest Imaging Blog, Dr. Theuwissen explains how to measure certain sensor parameters.

If you intend to evaluate them, possibly with RawDigger, you may find the following of his entries useful:

How to Measure

Average Dark Signal

Dark Shading

Fixed-Pattern Noise in Dark or DSNU (1)

Fixed-Pattern Noise in Dark (2)

Fixed-Pattern Noise in Dark (3)

FPN in Dark: Wrap-up

Average Signal with Light Input

Fixed-Pattern Noise in Light or PRNU (1)

Fixed-Pattern Noise in Light or PRNU (2)

Fixed-Pattern Noise in Light or PRNU (3)

Fixed-Pattern Noise at Saturation

Temporal Noise in Dark (1)

Temporal Noise in Dark (2)

Temporal Noise in Dark (3)

Temporal Noise with Light

Photon Transfer Curve (1)

Photon Transfer Curve (2)

RTS Pixels

Dead Pixels

Conversion Gain

Non-Linearity (1)

Non-Linearity (2)

Non-Linearity (3)

Non-Linearity (4)

Non-Linearity (5)

Non-Linearity (6)

Full Well Capacity (1)

Full Well Capacity (2)

Full Well Capacity (3)

Modulation Transfer Function (1)

Modulation Transfer Function (2)

Modulation Transfer Function (3)

Modulation Transfer Function (4)

Modulation Transfer Function (5)

Modulation Transfer Function (6)

Modulation Transfer Function (7)

Modulation Transfer Function (8)

Modulation Transfer Function (9)

Modulation Transfer Function (10)

How (not) to Measure Anti-Blooming (1)

Anti-Blooming (2)

Anti-Blooming (3)

Some other blog entries on the topic

Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR)

Dynamic Range (DR)

Butting versus Stitching (1)

Butting versus Stitching (2)

Butting versus Stitching (3)

Difference between Binning and Averaging (1)

Difference between Binning and Averaging (2)

Further Comments on Noise Measurements

Playing Time (1)

Playing Time (2)

Playing Time (3)

A very good book on Photon Transfer Curve

Photon Transfer (by James R. Janesick, an originator of the method)

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