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Course offers in-depth study of technicalities of photographic films and practical information on the role of the film laboratory. Filmmakers must understand their film stocks and the film laboratory handling them in order to use stock most effectively. Topics include latent image theory, tone reproduction, sensitometry/densitometry, mechanical properties of films, and image quality.