The Manual of Photography

1. FUNDAMENTAL IMAGE SCIENCE: Introduction to the Imaging Process; Light Theory; Light Sources and Filters; The Human Visual System and Visual Perception; An Introduction to Colour Science; Optics; Images and Image Formation; Sensitometry and the Characteristic Curve. 2. IMAGING SYSTEMS & THE IMAGING PROCESS: Image Sensors and Sensitive Materials; Lenses; Camera Systems; Exposure and Image Control; Image Formation and the Photographic Process; Photographic Printing and Print Materials; Digital Cameras and Scanners; Displays; Digital Printing and Print Materials; File Formats, Storage Media and Archiving. 3. IMAGE QUALITY & CHARACTERISTICS: Introduction: Performance Characteristics of Imaging Materials; Speed and Sensitivity of Materials; Tone Reproduction. Photographic Colour Reproduction; Characterisation and Colour Reproduction in Digital Devices; Resolution, Sharpness and Noise; Metrics: Objective Image Quality Measures; Psychophysics: Subjective Measurement of Image Quality. 4. DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING: Digital Image Workflow; Colour Management Systems; Spatial Image Processing; Frequency Processing Techniques; Image Restoration; Image Compression; Image Segmentation & Analysis.

Elizabeth Allen is a principal lecturer in Imaging Science at the University of Westminster. She specialises in digital imaging systems and processes and image quality and has been the course leader of the BSc Photography and Digital Imaging since 2005. Her work has been presented at a number of symposia and has been published in related journals. She received the Selwyn Award from the Royal Photographic Society in 2005 and is currently working towards a PhD in imaging science. She is also a contributing author in the 7th and 8th editions of Langford's Advanced Photography.
Sophie Triantaphillidou is a principal lecturer and director of the Imaging Technology Research Group at the University of Westminster. She received the Selwyn Award from the Royal Photographic Society and her PhD in imaging science in 2001. She specializes in image quality, image archiving and color imaging. She has been the chair of the Imaging Science Group of The Royal Photographic Society since 2007 and member of a number of conference program committees related to imaging science. She has published numerous research papers and is a contributing author in the 7th and 8th editions of Langford's Advanced Photography.