December 2015
Intermediate to advanced
554 pages
21h 11m
English
Film response to light is often presented in manufacturers' technical data in graph and in table form. Both allow you to make comparisons between different products, show a film's performance under differing conditions, etc. It is therefore worth making yourself familiar with how certain technical information is expressed, and what this means in practice.
A graph such as that in Figure C.1 (top) shows how a particular black and white film responds to the colors of the visual spectrum, on the final print. This film records deep blues and purples, and to a lesser extent reds, as lighter in tone than they appear to the eye. On the other hand, it responds to greens as if darker than the eye's ...
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