This book offers an in-depth technical presentation of photography and details about the inner workings of the digital camera, while keeping the artistic principles in mind. Departing from the current stream, the book treats photography as a highly scientific and technical subject, and serves as a reference to those who seek for an understanding of the technical aspects relating to the photographic camera, the beating heart of photography. It offers insight on why the photographs are created the way they are, highlighting also the limitations. As the author of this book is an image technology scientist and a photography enthusiast who has been teaching photography for a long time, this treatise reflects his own constant search and study for an in-depth understanding.
Author(s): George Pavlidis
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 287
Preface
Contents
Acronyms
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 From Vision to Photography
1.1 Introduction
1.2 The Nature of Light
1.3 Colour Vision
1.4 Measuring Light and Colour
1.5 The Scientific Photograph
2 A Brief History of Photography
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Milestones in Photography
2.3 Closure?
3 A Photography Primer
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Anatomy of the Digital Camera
3.2.1 The Lens
3.2.2 The Shutter
3.2.3 The Sensor
3.2.4 Exposure Control
3.2.5 Photography Cheat Sheets
3.3 A Camera Model as a Basis for This Treatise
4 Technical Aspects of Photography
4.1 Optics, Lenses and the Aperture
4.1.1 Lens Types
4.1.2 The Diaphragm and the Aperture
4.1.3 Depth of Field
4.1.4 Focal Length Multiplier
4.1.5 Lens Aberrations
4.1.6 A Curiosity of Convex Lenses
4.2 The Shutter
4.3 The Imaging Sensor
4.3.1 The Imaging Sensor in Digital Cameras
4.3.2 The Sensor Image Array
4.3.3 The Crop Factor and Other Considerations
4.3.4 Sensor Noise
4.3.5 Amplification, Conversion and Post-processing
4.3.6 Exposure
4.4 Digital Post-processing
4.4.1 Demosaicing
4.4.2 Colour Balance
4.4.3 Bit-Mapping and Gamma Correction
4.4.4 Compression
Appendix Glossary
References
Index
