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The Five Elements of the Digital Imaging System

1 July, 2010

INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES FocalPoints® constitutes a treatise on the modern imaging system.  The acronym, FOCAL, defines the five essential parts of the imaging task.  Field describes the real-world scene that will be captured, Optics transfers information about the scene to the sensor, Conversion represents the detection of photons and the conversion to a digitized signal, [...]