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Ninth Edition
By
Ralph Jacobson, PhD, ASIS FRIC FBIPP CChem, Photography lecturer at the University of Westminster.
Sidney Ray, BSc MSc ASIS HonFBIPP FMPA HonFRPS, Senior Lecturer in Digital and Photographic Imaging, University of Westminster, photographer and Imaging Consultant.
Geoffrey G Attridge, Bsc PhD ASIS FRPS, Photography Lecturer at the University of Westminster.
Norman Axford, BSc, Photography lecturer at the University of Westminster.
Description
The Manual of Photography is the standard work for anyone who is serious about photography - professional photographers and lab technicians
or managers, as well as students and enthusiastic amateurs who want to become more technically competent. The authors provide comprehensive
and accessible coverage of the techniques and technologies of photography.
The Manual has aided many thousands of photographers in
their careers. The ninth edition now brings this text into a third century, as the first edition dates from 1890.
Major new updates
for the ninth edition include:
Coverage of digital techniques - more emphasis on electronic and hybrid media
Greater coverage of colour
measurement, specification and reproduction - illustrated with a new colour plate section
Dealing with the fundamental principles as
well as the practices of photography and imaging, the Manual topics ranging from optics to camera types and features, to colour photography
and digital image processing and manipulation.
The authors write in a reader-friendly style, using many explanatory illustrations and
dividing topics into clear sections.
Audience
Students on photography/digital imaging/art and design courses and those on computer courses needing to understand the scientific aspects of imaging. Professionals wishing to brush up on knowledge.
Contents
Imaging systems; Fundamentals of light and vision; Photographic light sources; The geometry of image formation; The photometry of image
formation; Optical aberrations and lens performance; Camera lenses; Types of camera; Camera features; Camera movements; Optical filters;
Sensitive materials and image sensors; Spectral sensitivity of photographic materials; Principles of colour photography; Sensitometry;
The reproduction of colour; Photographic processing; Speed of materials, sensors and systems; Camera exposure determination; Hard copy
output media; Production of hard copy; Life expectancy of imaging media; Colour matters; Theory of image formation; Images and information;
Digital image processing and manipulation
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Paperback, 464 pages, publication date: AUG-2000
ISBN-13: 978-0-240-51574-8
ISBN-10: 0-240-51574-9
Imprint: FOCAL PRESS
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