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An Analysis by Peter van den Hamer
DxOMark Sensor is a raw benchmark for camera bodies. It is “raw” not just because it looks at Raw file image quality. It is also raw in the sense that it provides data for cooking up hands-on reviews that cover all aspects of a camera.

DxOMark Sensor Scope
DxOMark Sensor is the new name of DxO's original metric for camera body image quality. The name “sensor” is a bit misleading as the benchmark covers whatever happens to the light or signal from the point it has left the lens up to the point when the raw file is decoded. Other camera properties such as ease-of-use, speed, price, and lens sharpness, are all out of scope.
Note that DxO also provides a second benchmark called DxOMark Score which tests lens/body combinations and which does include lens sharpness.
DxOMark Sensor applies to:

high-end digital cameras (mainly SLRs and interchangeable lens models),
when generating Raw output files (JPG introduces too ma...

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