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Courses Handbook 2011

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2011.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2010.

1633 (v.4) Scientific Photography 101

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Tutition Patterns

The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.

Unit references, texts and outcomes

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Area: Department of Applied Physics
Credits: 12.5
Contact Hours: 3.0
Lecture: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Laboratory: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: Introduction to the overall philosophy of photography and cameras, particularly 35mm SLR. Safety and care. Camera principles and the interdependency of exposure on film speed, aperture and shutter speed. Camera accessories, tripods, flash units and theirpractical application. Accessory and supplementary lenses, lens speed, focal length, depth of field, macro lenses and field of view. Microscopes, Kohler illumination, darkfield, phase contrast and oblique illumination. Photographic principals. The nature and manipulation of light. Spectral power distribution curves, colour temperature and properties of various light sources. Filter theory and practice with respect to both colour and monochrome films. Linear polarisation and its application to nature and strain relationship of materials. Film structure. Monochrome film, grain structure and film speed. Photographic paper emulsions. Colour films. Basic colour chemistry and processing. Ultraviolet and infrared reflectance and fluorescence photography. The use of professional Polaroid film. Underwater photography. Equipment requirements and the techniques. Principles of the Scanning Electron Microscope with demonstration of actual techniques. Digital photography: equipment and techniques.
Field of Education: 010301 Physics
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2011 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External