1st Edition

Scientific Photography and Applied Imaging

By Sidney Ray Copyright 1999
586 Pages
by Routledge

586 Pages
by Routledge

WINNER OF THE 2001 KRASZNA-KRAUSZ PHOTOGRAPHY BOOK AWARD (Technical Photography category) The only definitive book to fully encompass the use of photography and imaging as tools in science, technology and medicine. It describes in one single volume the basic theory, techniques, materials, special equipment and applications for a wide variety of uses of photography, including: close up photography... Read more
General section:
Introduction * Limits of human visual perception * Experimental design * Light and radiation sources * Optics and lenses * Camera systems for data capture * Shutter systems * Lighting * Exposure determination * Image recording systems * Image processing, analysis and management
Major applications:
Close-up photography and photomacrography * Photomicrography * Micro-imaging * Photofabrication * Stereoscopic (3D) photography * Photogrammetry * Aerial photography * Remote sensing * Infrared recording * Imaging systems * Ultraviolet recording * Radiography * Photographic visualisation * High speed photography and photonics.
Specialist applications:
Surveillance systems * Low light level imaging * Telephotography * Cavity and endoscopic systems * Underwater photography * Panoramic photography * Peripheral photography * Fisheye lens photography * Holography

Biography

Senior Lecturer in Digital and Photographic Imaging, University of Westminster, photographer and Imaging Consultant.