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Journal of the SMPTE ( Volume: 65, Issue: 8, August 1956)
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The Luminance of Subjective Black

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Publisher
SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type
Journal Article
Content Type
Original Research
Abbreviated Title
J SMPTE
Volume
65, No. 8, pp. 411–414
Abstract
The subjective phase of tone reproduction requires a knowledge of how the eye reacts, that is, the visual response under a given set of conditions. Two instruments which have proven useful for obtaining this knowledge are a visual sensitometer and an adaptometer. The particular response investigated and reported is the luminance of subjective black, which may be defined as that value of luminance which is just too low to produce a perceptible visual impression under the luminance distribution existing in the scene being viewed. A fairly simple empirical scheme is proposed for predicting the luminance of subjective black from two easily measured quantities: the luminance of the fixation point and the average scene luminance.
Publication Date
1956-08-01
DOI
10.5594/J13929
ISSN
Print: 0361-4573
Link
https://doi.org/10.5594/J13929
Author(s)
E. M. LowryResearch Laboratories, Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester 4, N.Y.
J. G. JarvisResearch Laboratories, Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester 4, N.Y.
Copyright
© 1956 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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