The Role of Resolving Power and Acutance in Photographic Definition

Bibliographic Reference(s)

• The Nature and Evaluation of the Sharpness of Photographic Images [Active]
• 1. Higgins G. C. Wolfe R. N. , “The relation of definition to sharpness and resolving power in a photographic system,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. , 45 : 121 – 129 , Feb. 1955 . EXTERNAL
• 2. Perrin F. H. Altman J. H. , “Studies in the resolving power of photographic emulsions. VI. The effect of the type of pattern and the luminance ratio in the test object,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. , 43 : 780 – 790 , Sept. 1953 . EXTERNAL
• 3. Perrin F. H. Altman J. H. , “Studies in the resolving power of photographic emulsions. III. The effect of the relative aperture of the camera lens on the measured value,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. , 41 : 1038 – 1047 , Dec. 1951 . EXTERNAL
• 4. Perrin F. H. Hoadley H. O. , “Photographic sharpness and resolving power. I. The design and performance of an apo-chromatic resolving-power camera objective,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. , 38 : 1040 – 1053 , Dec. 1948 . EXTERNAL
• 5. Wadsworth F. L. O. in “The Modern Spectroscope, XVI,” Astrophys. J. , 3 : 169 – 191 , March 1896 . [The discussion of resolving power is on pp. 185–191. This seems to be the first quantitative discussion of the resolving power of photographic materials, but it is based on very questionable assumptions.]. EXTERNAL
• 6. Ross F. E. , The Physics of Ike Developed Photographic Image , New York : Van Nostrand Co. , 1924 . [These studies are only of historical interest, because many of the results have been controverted by later work.]. EXTERNAL
• 7. For a critical survey of more recent work, see Mees C. E. K. , The Theory of the Photographic Process , Chap. XXIV, rev. ed. , New York : The Macmillan Co. , 1954 . EXTERNAL
• 9. Morrissey J. H. , “New method for the assignment of psychometric scale values from incomplete paired comparisons,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. , 45 : 373 – 378 , May 1955 . EXTERNAL