The Effect of Turbid Water in the Optical Path of a Photographic System on the Modulation Transfer Function of That System

Author

G. Fulmer
Harvey Greenberg

Abstract

Various levels of a turbid suspension were introduced into a specially constructed tank and photographs of a variable transmittance sinusoidal object containing a step tablet were taken. The resulting images were processed and measured on a micro-densitometer to obtain the modulation transfer functions of the system. Results indicate that with increasing turbidity there is a speed loss, increased flare or reduced contrast, and decreasing modulation transfer functions. The increasing flare is not the only factor causing the demodulation of the underwater images.

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Photographic optics

Publication Date

5-3-1965

Document Type

Thesis

Department, Program, or Center

School of Photographic Arts and Sciences (CIAS)

Advisor

Not listed

Comments

Note: imported from RIT’s Digital Media Library running on DSpace to RIT Scholar Works. Physical copy available through RIT's The Wallace Library at: TR220.F84

Recommended Citation

Fulmer, G. and Greenberg, Harvey, "The Effect of Turbid Water in the Optical Path of a Photographic System on the Modulation Transfer Function of That System" (1965). Thesis. Rochester Institute of Technology. Accessed from
https://repository.rit.edu/theses/6561

Campus

RIT – Main Campus