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Formation of a digital image : the imaging chain simplified /

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Creating a digital picture is so simple today that when we pick up our camera and push the button, we don't put any thought into the process that we just set into motion. The chain of events that occurs to create the photograph is called the imaging chain. The scientists and engineers who desig...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fiete, Robert D.
Corporate Author: Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bellingham, Wash. (1000 20th St. Bellingham WA 98225-6705 USA) : SPIE, 2012.
Series:SPIE Digital Library.
SPIE monograph ; PM218.
Subjects:
Digital cameras > Mathematical models.
Photographic optics > Mathematics.
Photography > Digital techniques.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • 1. Making pictures
  • 2. Digital images: pixels and bits
  • 3. Light: the essential ingredient
  • 4. Camera optics: taking control of the light
  • 5. A simpler math
  • 6. Sensing the light
  • 7. Camera considerations
  • 8. The magic of computers: making a picture better
  • 9. The way we see it
  • 10. Afterword: now what?