Scientific Photography and Applied Imaging

Preface

‘It frequently happens, moreover – and this is one of the charms of photography – that the operator himself discovers on examination, perhaps long afterwards, that he has depicted many things he had no notion of at the time’ (The Pencil of Nature, 1844: William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–77)

It is now nearly 30 years since the publication by Focal Press of Applied Photography by C. Arnold, P. Rolls and J. Stewart in 1971. This book gave an almost complete contemporary overview of the proven applications of photography in the fields of science and technology using for the most part a range of general purpose and specialist silver halide materials, and where control of experiments and analysis of results were done without the aid of the now ...