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Testing for Lateral Chromatic Aberration
Please first read the Lateral Chromatic Aberration page.
Testing for lateral chromatic aberration (LCA) is easy:
- Choose any high-contrast target, preferably one that is neutral in color (so the effects are most easily seen). A good choices is something metal, such as aluminum.
- Place the target off-center e.g., at the edges or corners.
- Photograph the target at f/8 (making sure not to overexpose). By shooting at f/8, other optical aberrations will be all but gone, and focus error is less likely to confuse the results.
When LCA is present, color fringing is easily observed as a red fringe along high contrast edges.
The best targets for clearly and unequivocally seeing LCA is a high contrast black and white target. Simply printing out a page of lines and/or letters is a good enough test chart.
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