Intro
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