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The tenth edition of The Manual of Photography is an indispensable textbook for anyone who is serious about photography. It is ideal if you want to gain insight into the underlying scientific principles of photography and digital imaging, whether you are a professional photographer, lab technician, researcher or student in the field, or simply an enthusiastic amateur. This comprehensive guide takes you from capture to output in both digital and film media, with sections on lens use, darkroom techniques, digital cameras and scanners, image editing techniques and processes, workflow, digital

Title The manual of photography / edited by Elizabeth Allen, Sophie Triantaphillidou.
Edition 10th ed.
Publisher Oxford
Burlington, Mass. : Elsevier/Focal Press
Creation Date 2011
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographic references and index.
English
Content Cover
The Manual of Photography
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Editors' Acknowledgements
Author Biographies
Chapter 1 Introduction to the imaging process
INTRODUCTION
THE IMAGING PROCESS
IMAGE CONTROL
THE ORIGINS OF PHOTOGRAPHY
PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGING TODAY
DIGITAL IMAGING
DIGITAL IMAGE REPRESENTATION
Spatial resolution
Bit depth
Colour representation
File size and file formats
IMAGING CHAINS
EVALUATING IMAGE QUALITY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Chapter 2 Light theory
A BRIEF HISTORY OF LIGHT THEORY
WAVE-PARTICLE DUALITY
THE NATURE OF LIGHT
RADIOMETRY AND PHOTOMETRY
Radiometric definitionsPhotometric definitions
OPTICS
WAVE THEORY
Simple harmonic motion
Principle of superposition
Plane waves
Light intensity
Refraction and dispersion
Polarization
Interference
Diffraction
Diffraction of a circular aperture and a single slit
Rayleigh criterion
THE ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM
BLACK-BODY RADIATION
Wien's Displacement Law
Planck's Law
THE PHOTOELECTRIC EFFECT
THE PHOTON
BOHR MODEL OF THE ATOM
THE EMISSION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION IN ATOMS
Chapter 3 Photographic light sources
CHARACTERISTICS OF LIGHTSOURCES
Spectral qualitySpectral power distribution curve
Colour temperature
Colour rendering
Percentage content of primary hues
Measurement and control of colour temperature
The mired scale
LIGHT OUTPUT
Units
Illumination laws
Reflectors and luminaires
Constancy of output
Efficiency
DAYLIGHT
TUNGSTEN FILAMENT LAMPS
TUNGSTEN-HALOGEN LAMPS
FLUORESCENT LAMPS
METAL-HALIDE LAMPS
PULSED XENON LAMPS
EXPENDABLE FLASHBULBS
ELECTRONIC FLASH
Flash circuitry
Flash output and power
Flash duration and exposure
Portable units
Studio flash
Automatic flash exposure
Integral flash units
Red-eye avoidanceOTHER SOURCES
Light-emitting diodes
Diode lasers
Chapter 4 The human visual system
THE PHYSICAL STRUCTURE OF THE HUMAN EYE
Tunics
Cornea
Conjunctiva
Iris and pupil
Crystalline lens
Ciliary body
Vitreous cavity and vitreous humour
Retina and choroid
Optic nerve
Structure of the retina
Rods and cones
'non-imaging' cell layers
Receptive fields
DARK ADAPTATION
ELEMENTARY COLOUR VISION
Young-helmholtz theory of colour vision
Opponent theory of colour vision
COLOUR ANOMALOUS VISION
MOVEMENT AND FOCUSING
Focusing and correction of eyelightMovement
THE VISUAL PATHWAY
Visual cortex
BINOCULAR VISION
PERFORMANCE OF THE EYE
Luminance discrimination
Contrast sensitivity function
Visual acuity
ANIMAL VISION
Chapter 5 Introduction to colour science
THE PHYSICS OF COLOUR
COLOUR TERMINOLOGY
THE COLOUR OF OBJECTS
Spectral absorptance, reflectance and transmittance
CIE STANDARD ILLUMINATING ANDVIEWING GEOMETRIES
CIE STANDARD ILLUMINANTS AND SOURCES
MODELS OF COLOUR VISION
THE BASICS OF COLORIMETRY
Colour matching functions and the CIE standard observers
Calculating tristimulus values from spectral data
Extent 1 online resource (585 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010715996605171
MARC RECORDS

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