To test lenses, film, etc, I mount the camera 40 times the focal length from the test target.  In this test I was comparing older canon single coated lenses to newer Canon multi coated ones lenses.  The test was inconclusive in that the single coated seemed to have more resolution and the multicoated seemed to have more contrast.  Also to my eye the multi-coated lens seemed to have about 1/2 stop more exposure.

 

The test set up I used has two targets, a gray card, a gray scale and a color chart.

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The area that I highlighted in Photoshop is the test chart that I actually read to determine resolution.

In order to read the chart, I photographed the negative under a microscope and then read the resulting print which worked out to be about 400 power.  The total chart measured 1 MM on the negative.  This gets down to opinion but I felt that the smallest set of line pairs that I could distinguish were the 1.6 pairs which worked out to 80 lp/mm.

 

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Obviously there were some losses re-photographing the negative with the microscope but as long as they are consistent, it works well to compare lenses, film etc.  Although Tmax claims resolution of up to 200 lp/mm, for an amateur in his entry hall, 80 is about what I would expect.