Camera Technology
Camera Technology

Author: Norman Goldberg

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 1992-05-14

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 0080500668

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For anyone who has ever wondered how cameras work, this book is a pleasant way to learn. It is generously endowed with enough fundamentals to satisfy the technical specialist, without intimidating the casual but curious amateur photographer. The author has repaired, modified, and designed and analyzed cameras for the past forty five years. With this background, he goes beyond describing camera functions based on advertised data, instead the book explains how various cameras really work. The book peels off the cover panels and lets you look into the dark side of the lens. The dozen or so formulas use simple math and the drawings alone are worth the price of admission. Describes how cameras work and how well they overcome the difficulties in making a technically perfect photo Covers causes of image faults Presents unique methods for testing cameras Covers integration of optics, electronics, and mechanics in contemporary cameras

Camera
Camera

Author: Todd Gustavson

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13:

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"Few inventions have had as powerful an influence as the camera, and few modes of expression have enjoyed the enduring artistic, scientific, and popular appeal of photography. We are so focused on the products of the camera, the indelible images marking our lives and times, that it's easy to forget the instrument itself has a history. Now that history has been comprehensively traced for photography buffs and amateurs alike by Todd Gustavson, Curator of Technology at George Eastman House. In this ... volume, hundreds of new and archival images from George Eastman House bring the story to life and provide an unmatched reference source. Vast in its scope, this ... book is an in-depth visual and narrative look at the camera, and consequently photography itself"--Jacket.

Time-of-Flight and Structured Light Depth Cameras
Time-of-Flight and Structured Light Depth Cameras

Author: Pietro Zanuttigh

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-05-24

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 3319309730

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This book provides a comprehensive overview of the key technologies and applications related to new cameras that have brought 3D data acquisition to the mass market. It covers both the theoretical principles behind the acquisition devices and the practical implementation aspects of the computer vision algorithms needed for the various applications. Real data examples are used in order to show the performances of the various algorithms. The performance and limitations of the depth camera technology are explored, along with an extensive review of the most effective methods for addressing challenges in common applications. Applications covered in specific detail include scene segmentation, 3D scene reconstruction, human pose estimation and tracking and gesture recognition. This book offers students, practitioners and researchers the tools necessary to explore the potential uses of depth data in light of the expanding number of devices available for sale. It explores the impact of these devices on the rapidly growing field of depth-based computer vision.

This Book Is a Camera
This Book Is a Camera

Author: Kelli Anderson

Publisher:

Published: 2015-11-20

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780997175905

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This is a working camera that pops up from the pages of a book..The book concisely explains--and actively demonstrates--how a structure as humble as a folded piece of paper can tap into the intrinsic properties of light to produce a photograph.The book includes:- a piece of paper folded into a working 4x5" camera- a lightproof bag- 5 sheets of photo-paper "film"- development instructions (from complete DIY to "outsource it")- a foil-stamped cover- a satisfying demonstration of the connection between design & science / structures & functions

The Camera as Actor
The Camera as Actor

Author: Amy Cox Hall

Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Published: 2020-11-30

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 9781350111974

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Looking beyond the impact photographs have on the perpetuation and expression of social norms and stereotypes, and the influence of the act of taking a photograph, this new collection brings together international scholars to examine the camera itself as an actor. Bringing the camera back into view, this volume furthers our understanding of how, and in what ways, imaging technology shapes us, our lives, and the representations out of which we fashion knowledge, base our judgments and ultimately act. Through a broad range of case studies, the authors in this collection make the convincing claim that the camera is much more than a mechanical device brought to life by the photographer. This book will be of interest to scholars in photography, visual culture, anthropology and the history of photography.

Digital Airborne Camera
Digital Airborne Camera

Author: Rainer Sandau

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2009-12-10

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 1402088787

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Digital airborne cameras are now penetrating the fields of photogrammetry and remote sensing. Due to the last decade’s results in research and development in the fields of for instance detector technology, computing power, memory capacity position and orientation measurement it is now possible to generate with this new generation of airborne cameras different sets of geometric and spectral data with high geometric and radiometric resolutions within a single flight. This is a decisive advantage as compared to film based airborne cameras. The linear characteristic of the opto-electronic converters is the basis for the transition from an imaging camera to an images generating measuring instrument. Because of the direct digital processing chain from the airborne camera to the data products there is no need for the processes of chemical film development and digitising the film information. Failure sources as well as investments and staff costs are avoided. But the effective use of this new technology requires the knowledge of the features of the image and information generation, its possibilities and its restrictions. This book describes all components of a digital airborne camera from the object to be imaged to the mass memory device. So the image quality influencing processes in nature are described, as for instance the reflection of the electromagnetic sun spectrum at the objects to be imaged and the influence of the atmosphere. Also, the essential features of the new digital sensor system, their characteristics and parameters, are addressed and put into the system context. The complexity of the cooperation of all camera components, as for instance optics, filters, detector elements, analogue and digital electronics, software and so forth, becomes transparent. The book includes also the description of example systems.

How Camera Works
How Camera Works

Author: N. Chokkan

Publisher: Pustaka Digital Media

Published: 2020-05-12

Total Pages: 49

ISBN-13:

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‘Click’. That’s the most familiar sound a modern man would recognize and smile at. No, No. We are not talking about the computer ‘click’s here. Many years before computers came into existence, people used to click on their cameras. From ancient days, humankind has come a long way to reach the modern world today. This exciting journey was filled with many innovations which changed our lives. From day 1, Camera was a super hit product. Everyone wanted to own a camera, or at least wanted to pose for a photograph. As they capture so many memories, photos are treasured in every family, even today. According to a very famous saying, a picture is worth 1000 words. Instead of describing the beauty of a temple, or a hill station, you can show few pictures and people will get an idea immediately. Photography has taken this art from kings and rich people to commoners. Today anybody can own a camera and click all around. Those pictures can be printed easily and shared with everyone. In short, Camera is changing our world as much as Fire and wheel did many years back. Cameras not only look cool, but the technology behind is also fascinating. Get ready for this unparalleled journey!

The Invented Camera
The Invented Camera

Author: Jo Babcock

Publisher: Big Sky

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13:

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"Recycled objects transformed into working cameras, each paired with its symbiotic photograph. A battered suitcase photographs an old motel. A gas can peers up at abandoned filling station pumps. A shinola tin observes its polished boot. A VW van snares roadside attractions. This collection documents 25 years of pinhole and simple-lens tinkering and innovation by Jo Babcock"--Http://www.jobabcock.com/book.htm.

An Engine, Not a Camera
An Engine, Not a Camera

Author: Donald MacKenzie

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2008-08-29

Total Pages: 782

ISBN-13: 0262250047

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In An Engine, Not a Camera, Donald MacKenzie argues that the emergence of modern economic theories of finance affected financial markets in fundamental ways. These new, Nobel Prize-winning theories, based on elegant mathematical models of markets, were not simply external analyses but intrinsic parts of economic processes. Paraphrasing Milton Friedman, MacKenzie says that economic models are an engine of inquiry rather than a camera to reproduce empirical facts. More than that, the emergence of an authoritative theory of financial markets altered those markets fundamentally. For example, in 1970, there was almost no trading in financial derivatives such as "futures." By June of 2004, derivatives contracts totaling $273 trillion were outstanding worldwide. MacKenzie suggests that this growth could never have happened without the development of theories that gave derivatives legitimacy and explained their complexities. MacKenzie examines the role played by finance theory in the two most serious crises to hit the world's financial markets in recent years: the stock market crash of 1987 and the market turmoil that engulfed the hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management in 1998. He also looks at finance theory that is somewhat beyond the mainstream—chaos theorist Benoit Mandelbrot's model of "wild" randomness. MacKenzie's pioneering work in the social studies of finance will interest anyone who wants to understand how America's financial markets have grown into their current form.

The Camera as Actor
The Camera as Actor

Author: Amy Cox Hall

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-11-29

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 1000185702

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Looking beyond the impact photographs have on the perpetuation and expression of social norms and stereotypes, and the influence of the act of taking a photograph, this new collection brings together international scholars to examine the camera itself as an actor. Bringing the camera back into view, this volume furthers our understanding of how, and in what ways, imaging technology shapes us, our lives, and the representations out of which we fashion knowledge, base our judgments and ultimately act. Through a broad range of case studies, the authors in this collection make the convincing claim that the camera is much more than a mechanical device brought to life by the photographer. This book will be of interest to scholars in photography, visual culture, anthropology and the history of photography.