Canon EOS 40D

Response

Native RGB responsemeasuredCanon 40D · Jiang et al. WACV 2013 camera spectral sensitivity database
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About this spectrum4 notes
  • Warning: Response scope is unknown; do not interpret this response as a bare-sensor measurement. Dataset interpretation
  • Warning: Physical configuration is not documented; the response cannot be assigned to a confirmed optical configuration. Dataset interpretation
  • Warning: Normalization is unknown; amplitude comparisons are not established. Dataset interpretation
  • Warning: Uncertainty is not documented. Missing uncertainty does not mean zero uncertainty. Dataset interpretation
Source & details
Source category: measured
Primary measurement: a direct laboratory observation (or community submission recorded as measured). Not a mirror, not an estimation.
Type: measured
Measured response; measurement alone does not establish quality or confidence.
Origin: Community
Community provenance; origin does not establish measurement type, quality or confidence.
Quality: unassessed
Quality has not been assessed; no grade is inferred. Canonical release: no per-leaf scientific-quality assessment is asserted; the source-side claim is preserved verbatim.
Confidence: unassessed
Confidence has not been assessed; no confidence level is inferred. Canonical release: no claim about the per-leaf measurement precision is asserted; the upstream 'as is' wording (where present) is preserved.
Author
Jun Jiang
Source
Jiang et al. WACV 2013 camera spectral sensitivity database (link)
Source category
measured (primary measurement; not a mirror or estimation)
As-is
Samples rendered verbatim: no smoothing, no interpolation, no zero-padding, no gap bridging in the browser. Documented null sparse cells render as visible gaps.
Optical configuration
cfg-prf-jiang-intake-canon-40d (unknown) — unknown
Normalisation
unknown (original: unknown)
Response unit / scale
unknown / unknown
Sample count
33 samples from 400–720 nm, Δ 10 nm
Profile ID
prf-jiang-intake-canon-40d@1
Profile checksum
sha256:9fbc93fb74b277db…
Processing
source_column=database:Canon 40D
Scientific notes
Canonical release: native grid and native R/G/B samples are preserved verbatim; sparse cells (wavelengths absent in the upstream CSV / JSON) are preserved as null; the parser never invents a value.
Citation
Jiang et al. WACV 2013 camera spectral sensitivity database
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  • permission_status is 'unknown' on the canonical License record (no independent operational clearance granted).

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Camera specifications

Sensor type
CMOS
Sensor format
APS-C
Sensor size
22.2 x 14.8 mm
Effective megapixels
10.1 MP
Resolution
3888 × 2592 px
Lens mount
Canon EF-S
Release year
2007
Specification sources

Body specifications drawn from cited reference sources, distinct from the measured spectral response curves below.

Source: Wikipedia infobox MediaWiki revision 1365347568 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Also known as: Canon 40D.

Data details
Dataset version
recovered-2026-10-01-siril-source-review-v2
Manifest digest
6493790d2d6b6b68…
Manifest schema
0.1.0-draft
Release kind
full
Linked profiles / sessions
5 profile revisions
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