Book description
The tenth edition of The Manual of Photography is an indispensable textbook for anyone who is serious about photography. Covering both the art and the science of the complete photographic process
Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Editors’ Acknowledgements
- Author Biographies
- 1. Introduction to the imaging process
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2. Light theory
- Introduction
- A brief history of light theory
- Wave–particle duality
- The nature of light
- Radiometry and photometry
- Optics
- Wave theory
- The electromagnetic spectrum
- Black-body radiation
- The photoelectric effect
- The photon
- Bohr model of the atom
- The emission of electromagnetic radiation in atoms
- Bibliography
- 3. Photographic light sources
- 4. The human visual system
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5. Introduction to colour science
- Introduction
- The physics of colour
- Colour terminology
- The colour of objects
- CIE standard illuminating and viewing geometries
- CIE standard illuminants and sources
- Models of colour vision
- The basics of colorimetry
- The appearance of colours
- An introduction to CATs and CAMs
- Colour reproduction
- Instruments used in colour measurement
- Viewing conditions
- Bibliography
- 6. Photographic and geometrical optics
- 7. Images and image formation
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8. Sensitometry
- Introduction
- The subject
- Exposure
- Density and other relevant measures
- Effect of light scatter in a negative
- Density in practice
- The Characteristic (H and D) curve
- Placing the subject on the characteristic curve
- Average gradient and G
- Contrast index
- Effect of variation in development on the negative
- Exposure latitude
- The response curve of a photographic paper
- Requirements in a print
- Reciprocity law failure
- Sensitometers
- Densitometers
- Bibliography
- 9. Image sensors
- 10. Camera lenses
- 11. Photographic camera systems
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12. Exposure and image control
- Camera exposure
- Exposure relationships and logarithms
- Subject luminance ratio
- Dynamic range of sensors
- Optimum exposure and the transfer function
- Exposure meters
- Reciprocity law failure
- Types of light measurement
- In-camera metering modes
- Electronic flash exposure
- Reflected light measurement techniques
- Exposure techniques and digital cameras
- The zone system
- High-dynamic-range (HDR) imaging
- Bibliography
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13. Image formation and the photographic process
- Introduction
- Silver halides
- Latent image formation
- Spectral sensitivity of photographic materials
- Spectral sensitization
- Structure of photographic materials
- Sizes and formats of photographic materials
- Speed of photographic materials
- Characteristics of photographic materials
- Chemistry of the photographic process
- Superadditivity (Synergesis)
- Printing
- Bibliography
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14. Digital cameras and scanners
- Digital still cameras
- Digital still camera architecture
- Imaging optics
- Image sensor
- Shutter systems
- Dynamic range in digital cameras
- Colour capture
- Rendered versus unrendered camera processing
- Exposure determination and auto-exposure
- Autofocus control
- Analogue processing
- Digital processing
- Tone/colour rendering
- Camera types
- Image scanners
- Types of scanners
- Scanner characteristics
- Bibliography
- 15. Displays
- 16. Digital printing and materials
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17. Digital image file formats
- Introduction
- Tagged image file format (TIFF)
- Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG)
- Joint Photographic Experts Group 2000 (JPEG 2000)
- RAW
- Digital negative (DNG)
- Graphics interchange format (GIF)
- Portable network graphics (PNG)
- Photoshop document (PSD)
- Photo CD (PCD)
- Postscript (PS) and encapsulated postscript (EPS)
- Portable document format (PDF)
- Bibliography
- 18. Image storage and archiving
- 19. Introduction to image quality and system performance
- 20. Speed and sensitivity
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21. Tone reproduction
- Theory of tone reproduction
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Tone reproduction of imaging devices and image encoding systems
- CRT display transfer function
- Liquid crystal display (LCD) transfer function
- Measuring display transfer functions
- Transfer functions of digital acquisition devices
- Measuring acquisition device transfer functions
- Image encoding: sRGB, Adobe RGB and JPEG transfer functions
- Transfer functions of printers
- Other measures related to tone and contrast
- Non-linear quantization, bit-depth requirements and gamma correction
- Bibliography
- 22. Photographic colour reproduction
- 23. Digital colour reproduction
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24. Noise, sharpness, resolution and information
- Introduction
- Image noise
- Photographic noise
- Variation of granularity with density
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Quantifying image noise
- Variance
- Estimating σ2
- Selwyn’s law
- The autocorrelation function
- The noise power spectrum
- Relationships between noise measures
- Practical considerations for the autocorrelation function and the noise power spectrum
- Using the autocorrelation function
- Direct Fourier transformation of noise samples
- Signal-to-noise ratio
- Electronic system noise
- Resolution, sharpness and MTF
- Detective quantum efficiency (DQE)
- Information theory
- Bibliography
- 25. Digital image workflow
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26. Colour management systems
- Introduction
- Colour management tasks
- Closed-loop versus open-loop colour management
- The International Color Consortium (ICC)
- ICC colour management architecture
- The profile connection space (PCS)
- Rendering intents
- ICC profiles
- Using profiles
- Profile processing models
- Profile structure
- Creating custom device profiles
- Colour management workflow
- Bibliography
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27. Spatial image processing
- Introduction
- Background
- Discrete convolution
- Point processing operations: intensity transformations
- Point processing: multiple image operations
- Point processing: statistical operations
- Point processing: geometric transformations
- Neighbourhood processing: spatial filtering techniques
- Linear filtering
- Types of linear filters and their applications
- Non-linear spatial filtering
- Bibliography
- 28. Digital image processing in the frequency domain
- 29. Image compression
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Index
Product information
- Title: The Manual of Photography, 10th Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2012
- Publisher(s): Routledge
- ISBN: 9781136091094
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