Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/17

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Subject: Re: [Leica] *Finding* MTF charts
From: Nathan Wajsman <nathan.wajsman@euronet.be>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 06:44:59 +0100

Jeff,

I think you looked at www.fujifilm.com (or is it just fuji.com?), that is their US
web site. I found the MTF charts at their UK site, www.fujifilm.co.uk, which is a
lot more informative. There are .PDF data sheets for several of the films, and
they include MTF curves.

Nathan

Jeff Moore wrote:

> Where do you get this stuff for the stinkin' Fuji film?  Fuji's web-site has
> always frustrated the hell out of me -- lots of little anecdotal press-release
> type stuff, but no nice mine of hard data.  Would that they were all like
> Agfa!  Great, consistently-arranged archive of datasheets with consistent
> reporting conventions!  And Kodak has a lot of good stuff stirred in with a
> lot of useless stuff, but what they report has changed over time, making
> comparisons difficult.
>
> Fuji's web, though, seems essentially content-free, and Ilford's published
> data sheets are long on verbalizing and short on sensitometric meat.  Clearly
> I'm not looking in the right places.
>
> Or did you find MTF curves for Fuji film in... (Gasp!) some evil paper-only
> form?
>
>  -Jeff Moore <jbm@jbm.org>