privatebydesign said:
"Do you have a link to Rogers optical bench and colliminator? as well as the PHD's he has hired to run it? The last time I saw any information was that he used Imatest like all the other testers."
No. But you need to read him more clearly, he often says things like "A lot of my posts about lens resolution consist largely of showing the MTF 50 numbers from Imatest or our optical bench." and "I grew up in biological and medical research ".
It's a Well's OS-400 system, modified by Wells to take interchangeable mount lenses. We didn't hire any Ph. D.s, but had one come teach us how to use it. As mentioned above, it's not the be-all-end-all but it compliments Imatest nicely. Imatest's greatest shortcoming is it can't measure lenses at infinity and the optical bench does. Imatest does some other things much better than the optical bench, though.
And it's certainly not up to aerospace standards, this is a lower end (albeit still near 6 figures) system, but it does give use some really nice information, particularly regarding astigmatism and frequency response that Imatest just can't provide.
There's a picture and some output from it here:
http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2012/12/another-35mm-lens-for-canon