Studies in the sensitivity of photographic materials

The sensitivity of photographic emulsions is not measured by the exposure necessary to produce an arbitrarily chosen density. It is measured by a definite value of DID…, which is given by the inflection point of the characteristic curve.For simple characteristic curves, the inertia point is quantitatively related to the inflection point.The most complete measurements of sensitivity are obtainable by a quantic analysis of the shape of the characteristic curve.     

Theory of the halftone process. II. The diffraction theory-calculation of the light distribution

An approximate method of calculating the light distribution in the dots formed behind a halftone screen from the Fresnel diffraction theory is described, and in a typical case, the distribution is found to check closely with that determined experimentally, being very different from that calculated from geometrical optics.