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Hurter and Driffield

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H & D curve used in sensitometry

Ferdinand Hurter (1844–1898) and Vero Charles Driffield (1848–1915) were nineteenth-century photographic scientists who brought quantitative scientific practice to photography through the methods of sensitometry and densitometry.

Hurter & Driffield's actinograph.

Among their other innovations was a photographic exposure estimation device known as an actinograph.[1]

See also

  • H&D speed numbers, originally described in 1890, for film speed measurements

References

  1. ^ William Bates Ferguson (editor) (1920). The Photographic Researches of Ferdinand Hurter & Vero C. Driffield: Being a Reprint of Their Published Papers, Together With a History of Their Early Work & a Bibliography of Later Work on the Same Subject. London: Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)


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