What is IQ?

I keep reading on threads about lens and Camera IQ's but I have no clue what it means.

Would someone please explain it to me?

Thanks!

IMAGE QUALITY.

also

Intelligence Quotient

Intelligence quotient obviously, anyone who thinks it stands for image quality is clearly nuts.

Heh, thanks for that! I did think of the inteligence Quotience, but I didn't think that would fit in with cameras and lenses!

I was just kidding Hero gave you the correct answer and I was a little late.

ChopstickHero wrote in post #2258391
IMAGE QUALITY.

lostdoggy wrote in post #2258400
also

Intelligence Quotient

Boy, I wish I had more of both.

gjl711 wrote in post #2258503
Boy, I wish I had more of both.

Screw the image quality, with enough intelligence I could figure out how to use Photoshop and use my brain to shoot like that guy who uses the 18-55, bigma and 50 1.8 to get great image quality with little $.

JaGWiRE wrote in post #2258632
Screw the image quality, with enough intelligence I could figure out how to use Photoshop and use my brain to shoot like that guy who uses the 18-55, bigma and 50 1.8 to get great image quality with little $.

that would be great. impossible for me though to do that even with 10,000 dollars worth of glass too.. lol

Insane Quest (to get bestest image quality)

surfologist wrote in post #2258770
that would be great. impossible for me though to do that even with 10,000 dollars worth of glass too.. lol

Me too . Some people are just very talented and artistic though, and that's something money can't buy.

JaGWiRE wrote in post #2260655
Me too . Some people are just very talented and artistic though, and that's something money can't buy.

Ah yes, the talent thing. I use to have some, but on one fateful night oh so long ago, I passed some of it to one kid, and a few years later the rest to the other. Kid #3 and #4 got shortchanged as they do not display any, at least photographically. My son clearly has the eye and has taken some beautiful pics and my daughter though much less technically astute has the artistic eye and her pics are stunning. I try to tell myself that it was the years of schooling and the degree in graphic arts, but I know better. She had it before she ever went to school. Leaves me jealous as I have this great setup and struggle, and she with her HP950 consistently produces stunning work.

I'm guilty of over-using IQ.

gjl711 wrote in post #2261172
Ah yes, the talent thing. I use to have some, but on one fateful night oh so long ago, I passed some of it to one kid, and a few years later the rest to the other. Kid #3 and #4 got shortchanged as they do not display any, at least photographically. My son clearly has the eye and has taken some beautiful pics and my daughter though much less technically astute has the artistic eye and her pics are stunning. I try to tell myself that it was the years of schooling and the degree in graphic arts, but I know better. She had it before she ever went to school. Leaves me jealous as I have this great setup and struggle, and she with her HP950 consistently produces stunning work.

I am not an artistic person. I can't draw anything in real life (partially to do with my hand writing disability.) Years back when I went through all these hoops in the education system to get myself a compuetr to type on, I was tested by a psychologist, and believe it or not my logistical / mathematic side came out very good, but artistic and language side quite poorly. He couldn't give me an IQ because my brain was so inbalanced apparently.