RPS Imaging Science Group

RIT Imaging Science poster

As this blog is all about Imaging Science I had to have a photo, taken by the author on a visit to the Rochester Institute of Technology. The occasion was the meeting of the International Congress of Imaging Science in 2006 – see http://www.imaging.org/store/physpub.cfm?seriesid=31&pubid=736. I guess the photo students felt threatened by the presence of so many Imaging Scientists on their campus and I spotted this poster on the wall of the Student’s Union building.

I use this picture in a number of presentations as it illustrates a number of issues. First, what is Imaging Science? The students are right, it isn’t photo but the scientific disciplines that underpin and support the art of photography. My aim in this blog is to show that it is much more than this too and I plan to return to this in a later posting.

Secondly, it makes a good illustration of different printing techniques. It looks like this poster was made with a spray can on cheap paper. Most prints are made by techniques that are rather more controlled than this and I will hopefully feature these in my blog postings. This whole field is leading us on into new areas such as printed electronics, an area where Imaging Science is likely to be very important.