High Speed Photography and Photonics

This text examines the advances in high speed photography and its industrial and military applications. It provides an introduction for those who want to investigate its potential as a tool for measurement and analysis in research and development work, and those who are mainly concerned with standard photographic procedures but would like to know more about the high speed areas. The material follows progressively from an introduction to and development of HSP, to details of illumination and image capture systems, data extraction and image processing for experimental procedure. Both major and specialist applications of HSP are covered such as: ballistics, the natural world, detonics, the properties of materials and aircraft engineering, combustion processes, motor vehicle safety and holography. The text includes a number of diagrams and photographs which illustrate and supplement the text while tables provide numerical information.