Book description
While there are many books that teach the "how-to" of photography, Science for the Curious Photographer is a book for those who also want to understand how photography works.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Preface to the First Edition
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Permissions
- Chapter 1 What Is Photography?
- Chapter 2 What Is Light?
- Chapter 3 The Camera—An Introduction
- Chapter 4 Images: What Is Perspective?
- Chapter 5 Why Does a Camera Need a Lens?
- Chapter 6 Elementary Optics: How Do Lenses Work?
- Chapter 7 The Simple Thin Lens and What it Does
- Chapter 8 How to Make Lenses that Are Good Enough for Photography
- Chapter 9 Coming to Terms with Real Camera Lenses
- Chapter 10 Wide-Angle Lenses, Fisheye Lenses, and Panoramas
- Chapter 11 What Is an Equivalent Image?
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Chapter 12 How to Get Very High Magnification
- 12.1 Introduction
- 12.2 Supplemental Lenses
- 12.3 Extension
- 12.4 Teleconverters (Tele-Extenders) for Cameras with Interchangeable Lenses
- 12.5 Afocal Teleconverters for Fixed Lens Cameras
- 12.6 Combinations of Lenses and Extenders for Real World Macrophotography
- 12.7 Special Problems Resulting from High Magnification
- 12.8 Lighting for Close-Up Nature Photography with High Shutter Speeds
- 12.9 The Optimum F-Number for Macrophotography
- 12.10 Expanding the Depth-of-Field
- 12.11 Conclusions
- Chapter 13 Do We Need Filters Anymore?
- Chapter 14 The Limits of Human Vision
- Chapter 15 How Can Color Be Managed?
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Chapter 16 Image Capture and Processing
- 16.1 Introduction
- 16.2 Capturing Photons with Image Sensors
- 16.3 CCD and CMOS Image Sensors
- 16.4 Encoding of Color
- 16.5 How Film/Sensor Speed (ISO) Is Defined
- 16.6 How the Dynamic Range Is Determined
- 16.7 Exposure Settings for High Image Quality
- 16.8 Saving and Storing the Image
- 16.9 Image Processing and Manipulation
- 16.10 Artifacts Resulting from Inadequate Periodic Sampling
- 16.11 Gamma Correction
- 16.12 Capturing the LightField
- 16.13 Does the Sensor Really Determine the Resolution of My Digital Camera?
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Chapter 17 What Is Perceived Image Quality?
- 17.1 Introduction
- 17.2 Image Blurring and Softness
- 17.3 Focus
- 17.4 Camera Motion
- 17.5 Signal-to-Noise Ratios
- 17.6 Diffraction
- 17.7 Lens Performance
- 17.8 Sensor Resolution
- 17.9 Perceived Image Quality
- 17.10 Sharpening by Means of Image Processing
- 17.11 Contrast Sensitivity Function
- 17.12 Subjective Quality Factor
- 17.13 A Caveat
- Chapter 18 The Creation and Appreciation of Art in Photography
- Chapter 19 What We See and How We Photograph It
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Appendices
- A Historical Note on Enlargers
- B What Is Behind the Rules of Optics?
- C Derivation of the Lens Maker’s Equation
- D Gaussian Optics and the Principal Planes
- E A Macro Lens with Attachments
- F Observing and Managing Color: Dealing with Color Vision Anomalies
- G Capturing Photons with Photographic Film
- H Microelectronics and the Path to Digital Sensors
- I Irradiance and Illuminance Units
- J All about Depth-of-Field and Hyperfocal Distance
- Index
Product information
- Title: Science for the Curious Photographer, 2nd Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2017
- Publisher(s): Routledge
- ISBN: 9781351811859
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