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Imatest partners

Imatest has a co-marketing agreement with Applied Image, a leading supplier of test charts for industry. You can receive a price break by purchasing Imatest along with an Applied Image chart.

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Imatest customers

Imatest has been adopted by a wide range of industries that employ embedded digital imaging systems, including mobile imaging (camera phones), medical imaging, aerospace and machine vision, as well as publications/reviews, and academic, cultural, and research institutions. Here are some of Imatest's better-known customers.

Machine vision
Mobile imaging
Photographic
Security
Semiconductor
Misc. 		  AbelCineTech • Acutelogic • Adobe Systems • Advasense • Agilent • AltaSens • Akzo Nobel • Alps • AMD • Analog Devices • Apple • ASULAB (Swatch) • ATI • Aurora Optical • Avago • BAE Systems • Better Light • Broadcom • CameraFusion • Canadian Bank Note • Canon Europe • Casio Hitachi Mobile • Cascade Engineering Services • CiSRA • Concord Camera • Creative Technology • Cypress Semiconductor • Datatrac Information Services • DBlur Technologies • DuPont • DxO • Elekta • EDS • Flextronics • Foveon • Freescale Semiconductor • Fujifilm France • Fujinon • General Dynamics Robotic Systems • GE Healthcare • GE Security • Google • Hewlett-Packard • IDS • Intel • Identix • inSilica • Kodak • KonicaMinolta • Kyocera • LG Electronics • Lifetouch • LiteOn • Logitech • Micron • MagnaChip • Matsushita (Panasonic) • Mediatek • Microsoft • Motorola • Nintendo • Nokia • NuCORE Technology • Nvidia • NXP Semiconductor • OmniVision • Olympus Technologies Singapore • Palm • Pelco • Philips • PixArt • Point Grey Research • Polaroid • Procter & Gamble • Qualcomm • RIM • Rockwell Scientific • Samsung • Sensata • Sharp • Sharp USA • Siemens • Siimpel • Silicon Image • Sonardyne • Sony Ericsson • Spreadtrum • STMicroelectronics • Teledyne Imaging Sensors • Tandberg • Tessera • Texas Instruments • Varioptic • Vidar • Vision-Sciences • Vista Point Technologies • Vivitar • Zonetech • Zoran
Medical   Boston Scientific • CardioOptics • GlaxoSmithKline • Idexx Laboratories • Intuitive Surgical • Siemens Medical Diagnostics • Stryker • World of Medicine • Xion
Publications/reviews   Chasseur d'Images • CNET • Consumers Union • Macworld
Aerospace/automotive/
defense/government		   Alliant Techsystems • BMW • Boeing • Defense R&D Canada • ESTEC (European Space Agency) • Fermilab • General Atomics • Geospatial Systems • Jet Propulsion Laboratory • Korea Aerospace Research Institute • Lockheed Martin • NASA Kennedy, Goddard, and Marshall Space Flight Centers • Northrup Grumman • ONERA • Pacific Northwest National Laboratory • Rincon Research • SpaceDev • Takata • Traficon • U.S. Geological Survey • U.S. Government Printing Office
Academic/cultural   Art institute of Chicago • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences • Australian War Memorial • Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek (IEEE Spectrum article) • College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona • Curtin University of Technology • Emory University • Fujian Institute of Optical Technology • Gjøvik University College • Hebrew University of Jerusalem • Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory • ITRI • MIT LIncoln Laboratory • National Archives of Sweden • National Library of Australia • National University of Ireland, Galway • NMIT • OCLC • Royal BC Museum • Shi Hsin University • Slovak Technical University in Bratislava • Technische Universität Berlin • Technische Universität Hamburg - Harburg • Tokyo Institute of Technology • UCLA Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging • University of Warwick • Università di Padova

Sites that use or describe Imatest

An ever-growing number of publications use Imatest for camera and lens reviews. Please contact us if you'd like us to add your site.

Norman Koren's Google TechTalk, Image Quality Measurement: Real world challenges, is available online. For a clearer view of the image quality factors, download the the Presentation (PDF format) (2.8 MB).
The 12.8 megapixel Canon EOS 5D digital SLR is receiving a lot of attention for its superb quality at less than half the price of the EOS 1Ds Mark II. See Imatest results on Digitalcamerainfo.com | gnyman.com | Peter Facey
Volker Gilbert has written an excellent French language description of Imatest. (PDF version). René Bouillot has included a chapter on Imatest in his new book, La pratique du reflex numérique.
Sites using Imatest for reviews
CNET uses Imatest for testing digital cameras.
Digital Photographer (UK) is the first English language print magazine to feature Imatest reviews.
Digitalcamerainfo.com, from the creators of Camcorderinfo.com, has in-depth reviews that take full advantage of Imatest.
PhotoReview.com.au, from the publishers of PhotoReview Australia, uses Imatest in its reviews of popular digital cameras.
Imaging-resource.com also takes full advantage of Imatest for its reviews. See, for example, the Canon EOS 1Ds Mark II.
Photodo.com, a site with a distinguished history of testing lenses, is now using Imatest for its lens tests.
Photozone.de (Klaus Schroiff), uses Imatest for lens reviews. example: the Canon EF-S 10-22mm ultrawide.
D-Spot (Hebrew language) uses Imatest in its reviews, starting with the Kodak SLR/n (pages 4 and 5) and the Fujifilm S3 Pro.
Gordon Laing's Cameralabs.com site is expanding its use of Imatest in camera and lens reviews.
Miljenko Devcic has a number of interesting lens tests and comparisons.
Optyczne.pl (Polish language)
Read Norman Koren's interview with Steve Kapsinow, March 2, 2006. Steve is an editor of Graphics.com.
David Pogue notices! He published excerpts of a letter about Imatest's SQF measurement in Last Notes on the Megapixel Myth.