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This course deals with the technologies of image acquisition, from the first photographic emulsion to today’s digital sensors. It offers in-depth studies of photosensitive emulsions, latent image theory, laboratory processing and printing, mechanical properties of film, image quality, densitometry, sensitometry and digital sensors, scanning, and archiving. A brief history of photochemical and digital photography is included.