Table of Contents

Light and Photometry; Camera and Printing Exposure, Variability and Quality Control in Photography; Photographic Sensitometry; Photographic Optics; Chemistry for Photographers; Photographic Emusionsk Films and Papers; Black and White Photographic Development; Post-Developmental and Archival Considerations; Digital Imaging; Tone Reproduction; Micro-image evaluation; Visual perception; Filters; Color; Color reproduction; Appendixes, Index

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About the Author

Richard D. Zakia, Ed.D., Professor Emeritus at Rochester Institute of Technology, has taught in many areas of photography including graphic design and multimedia design. During his 34 years at R.I.T., Dr. Zakia served as the chair of the Fine Art Photography Department and Graduate Program in Imaging Arts, and for a six-year period was a photographic engineer in development and research at Kodak. He is the recipient of the Eisenhart Outstanding Teaching Award and the author/co-author of 12 books on photography, including The Focal Encyclopedia of Photography.