• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Wide-Range Photographic Photometry
  • Contributor: Dobbins, Richard A.; Crocco, Luigi; Glassman, Irvin
  • imprint: AIP Publishing, 1963
  • Published in: Review of Scientific Instruments
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.1718293
  • ISSN: 1089-7623; 0034-6748
  • Keywords: Instrumentation
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  • Description: <jats:p>Methods of developing a photosensitive film to a high degree of uniformity are demonstrated to be dependent upon the effectiveness of the mixing of the developing solution and the disruption of the formation of a concentration boundary layer during the developing process. Adaptation of the hydraulic brush developing technique and use of film and microphotometer calibration procedures based on a primary standard of measurement made possible the extension of the useful range of commercial films for photometric purposes to a density of over 2.5. These methods permit the use of photographic photometry to make measurements of irradiance varying over a range of 100 to 1 with an accuracy of better than 10% over the entire range.</jats:p>