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REFLECTION DENSITY [1 record]

Record 1 2015-04-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Optics
  • Lithography, Offset Printing and Collotype
DEF

Density as measured by light reflected from the surface, of, for example, a photographic print.

CONT

Transmission density refers to light passed through a transparent image; reflection density to light reflected back through the image by the base support of photographic prints.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Optique
  • Lithographie, offset et phototypie
CONT

La transmittance et la réflectance, ainsi que les valeurs logarithmiques correspondantes, densité par transmission ou par réflexion, ne sont pas, en effet, indépendantes de la géométrie des faisceaux, incidents sur la couche absorbante et émergents ou réfléchis par elle.

Spanish

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