Digital BW, The Print

Andre wrote:

> 
> It seems that things related to lens performance is changing with the
> advent of digital photography. Not too long ago, the MTF curves for
> lens performance were what was needed to choose a lens. (www.photodo.com)
> 
> Now, the DXO Analyser from www.dolabs.com is revealing that lens
> performance is tied to the camera body on which it is used. The same
> lens on different camera bodies will return different results as to
> vignetting, chromatic aberration, geometrial distorsion, sharpness and
> noise (s/n ratio).

Mainly the relation between lens and sensor.

> The results I have are from the French magazine Chasseur d'Images
> (March 2004). I have not followed on it since I still use a film camera.

The German Magazine Color Foto is probably one of the first that 
published test results of the same lenses on different sensor types.

http://www.colorfoto.de/d/10916

http://www.colorfoto.de/sixcms/media.php/258/Kameras%20im%20test.pdf

http://www.colorfoto.de/sixcms/media.php/258/Objektive%20i.%20Systemtest.14739.pdf

In German though.

Ernst