DXOMark Review

Background
In our highly completive consumer society sometimes we are presented with so much choice as to make purchasing decisions difficult. This is very much the case when it comes to digital SLRs. The technology is so fast-moving, and also complicated to understand, that even for experience photographers choosing the most appropriate tool for one's needs can be a daunting process.
DxOhas been in the business of making digital camera testing systems for a number of years. I was involved with them in their early days as an alpha tester of the DxO Analyzer system, and published quite a few camera and lens reviews using it. After a time though I stopped, because of time constraints as well as the feeling that my efforts in camera reviewing would be best applied to subjective evaluations.
DxO then brought out their DxO Optics Pro image correction and raw processing system. This has proven to be very popular and many photographers find it to have become an indispensable tool in their ra...