24-2216 Photo Theory/Lab Practice

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.

PREREQUISITES: 24-1000 and 24-1001 and 24-1200 and 24-2201