Evaluating Density Metrics for Scanning Motion Picture Negatives

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type: Journal Article
Content Type: Original Research
Abbreviated Title: SMPTE Mot. Imag. J
Volume: 117, No. 4, pp. 31–38
Abstract: Now that digital image files are being exchanged between facilities so commonly, it is imperative that a standard method for setting up scanners be adopted. Although Cineon printing density has supposedly been an industry standard for 15 years, there has been no real consensus on how to implement it. Each facility devised its own methods for setting up its scanner and interpreting density on negatives. Academy Printing Density is a proposal from the Science and Technology Council of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences addressing this need.
Publication Date: 2008-05-01
DOI: 10.5594/J15099
ISSN: Print: 1545-0279 | Electronic: 2160-2492
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/J15099
Author(s): Richard PattersonMember of the visual effects branch andt the Science and Technology Council of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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Richard Patterson is a member of the visual effects branch andt the Science and Technology Council of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He received an Academy Scientific and Engineering Award for his work on the development of Cinefusion software and was supervisor of digital imaging at Illusion Arts for 14 years. He co-authored Electronic Cinematography: Achieving Photographic Control Over the Video Image and has published over 50 articles on film and video production techniques. He can be contacted at richard@rgpost.com .
Copyright: © 2008 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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1. Giorgianni Edward J. Madden Thomas E. , Digital Color Management: Encoding Solutions , Addison Wesley : Reading, MA , 1998 . EXTERNAL
2. ISO 5–3 , “Photography—Density Measurements—Part 3: Spectral Conditions,” 2nd Edition , Nov. 15, 1995 , International Organization for Standardization , www.iso.org/iso/home.htm . EXTERNAL
3. See for example: Hunt R.W.G. , The Reproduction of Colour in Photography, Printing & Television , 4th Edition , p. 247 , Fountain Press : Tolworth, England , 1987 . EXTERNAL
4. Analytical density is a measure of the amount of dye present for each color component rather than the net effect of the dye on the transmission of a specified source with a specified sensor. There are various metrics for expressing analytical density. EXTERNAL
5. SMPTE RP 180–1999 (Archived 2006 ), “Spectral Conditions Defining Printing Density in Motion-Picture Negative and Intermediate Films,” www.smpte.org . EXTERNAL
6. Personal communication to the author. EXTERNAL

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