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What is acutance?

What is acutance? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (photography) Edge contrast in an image; a component of sharpness.
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These effects can be measured physically to give an acutance value, which is preferred to resolving power as a criterion of a film's sharpness performance.
Unsharp masking is an image manipulation technique of increasing the acutance, or apparent sharpness, of photographic images.
Fine-grain films with thin emulsions yield the highest acutance.
It is a fast-working, fog-free, stain-free agent that dissolves easily in cold water, keeps extremely well and produces negatives of very high acutance.
Due to the unique structure of ROLLEI R³, the developer has a strong effect on film speed, grain and acutance.
Because of the tanning effect of catechol on emulsion gelatine, it has many of the properties of pyrogallol, including high acutance and low fog.

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