|Motivation behind DxOMark Score | DxOMark Score design| Here we
detail the motivations behind the DxOMark Score and the
rationale for its conception. A camera consists of many
different components. Because so many factors related to all
these components have to be taken into account, it can be
difficult to choose between models. To make it easier for
photographers to choose, we wanted to design an objective
numerical quantity to globally represent the average image
quality a given camera can achieve. To fully embrace the
complexity of the camera, however, it is necessary to go back
and forth between several levels of detail for different parts
of the system, analogous to looking at something under a
microscope. When looking inside a camera, for example, the data
in lens with camera and in camera sensor reveal many details
about their respective target components. Taken together, they
provide a more global view of the camera’s image quality
performance. The idea of DxOMark Score is to quantify the amount
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