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Amount of silver deposit produced by exposure and development. It is measured in terms of the logarithm of opacity, where opacity is the light stopping power of a medium.
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A numerical measure for the darkness of a tone.
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DENSITY Density is indicated by the capital letter D and is another way of expressing opacity or the light-stopping ability of a medium. Density is nothing more than the common logarithm of opacity. For example, when opacity is 2.

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Techniques Glossary Density
A numerical measure for the darkness of a tone.

PIXEL DENSITY
We are working with one 16.7mp camera and two 8mp cameras and each one has different length and width dimensions for its imaging sensor.

Neutral Density filters come in two basic varieties: solid and graduated. Both function by simply cutting down the light that is transmitted to the film, just like someone turned off the lights.

Neutral density graduated filters (ND Grads) can make a really dramatic difference to your landscape photography. Images captured on film or digitally cannot record the same range of brightness as the human eye, leading to disappointing results.

A neutral density (ND) filter is a dark filter designed to reduce the amount of light getting into the lens in a given time.

A) Neutral-density filters lengthen the exposure of the scene without influencing color (hence, the term 'neutral.') The filter artificially darkens the image, and the camera's sensor lengthens the exposure to compensate for the lack of light.

Graduated neutral density filters do not work well when the division between the light and dark areas is not fairly straight. A scene of the ocean and sky would work well with a graduated neutral density filter due to the straight line of the horizon.

Graduated Neutral Density Filters by Russ Burden
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To get some idea of what this means, here is a diagram representing a pixel density of 28 MP/cm² (the pixel density of the Canon G9). As you can see, this density equates to 12 MP on the G9's 1/1.

DENSITY - The relative opacity (blackness) of an area of a negative, a transparency or a print. The greater the density, the less light can be transmitted through it. (Sometimes density is also referred to as "Contrast.") ...

DENSITY
Almost all of the problems are caused by the medium in which we choose to operate. Water is many times denser than air and is capable of holding matter in suspension through which we have to take our underwater photographs.

Density The blackness of an area in a negative or print that determines the amount of light that will pass through it or reflect from it. Sometimes referred to as contrast.

Density - The lightness or darkness of an image or a portion of an image.
Desaturate - To remove color from an image or hue.

density
(1) a measurement of the opacity of an area in an image.); (2) the density of a fiber with its weight expressed in grams per cubic centimeter; (3) the mass of any unit volume of a material; ...

Density. The ability of an object to stop or absorb light. The less light reflected or transmitted by an object, the higher its density.

Density
The ability of a negative to allow light to transmit through it is a function of the density of the negative. This is based on the density of silver oxide in the negative causing light to not be able to transmit through a negative.

Neutral Density Graduated
Neutral Density Graduated (NDG) or a "grad" is an optical filter that allows for variable or graduated light transmission.

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Neutral Density
Neutral Density (ND) filters are sunglasses for your camera. They reduce the amount of light coming in without changing the color.

Neutral Density Graduated Filters
Quite often the correct exposure for a background in a scene is not the best one for the foreground or viceversa.

Neutral Density Filter - This light is bright enough to enable the user to employ a shutter speed that would otherwise be to slow.
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Neutral Density Camera Filters (ND Filters)
ND filters, or Neutral Density Filters reduce the amount of light that gets in the lens in a balanced way (as opposed to a polarizing filter, for example).

NEUTRAL DENSITY FILTER - Filter for use in front of the lens that absorbs all visible wavelengths to a more or less equal extent. ND filters can be used with both monochrome and color films, since they have no effect on color balance.

Neutral Density Filters
If you are shooting in bright light and want to restrict the depth of field, use a neutral density filter in front of the lens to reduce the light entering the lens.

Neutral-density filter. A piece of dark glass or plastic p[laced in front of the camera lens to decrease the intensity of light entering the lens. It affects exposure, but not color.

Neutral Density filters
Neutral density (ND) filters are dark filters that reduce the brightness of a scene. You may need them if you like to play with long exposures for artistic effect.

optical density
The range of tones that can be captured by a device. Optical density is measured on a scale of 0 for white to 4 for black.
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Maximum Density: The measurement of the blackest or darkest area of an image on film; that is, the area with the maximum ability to stop light.
Mechanical: An assembly of type and/or artwork, usually on paper stuck to a sheet of art board.

Neutral Density, ND (Gel)
Those .3, .6, and .9 ND gels reduce light Intensity by 1, 2, or 3 stops respectively, without a change in color or quality of the light.

Neutral Density Filter- This will cut down on the amount of light passing through your lens. Think of it as sunglasses minus the color shift for your camera's eyes.

The Neutral Density Filter is practically a must for even the most amateur of photographers. These filters are used to reduce glare from reflections on water, glass and most everything in which light bounces off the object, producing a glare.

Neutral Density. Usually applies on filter, filtration that can effectively reduce the amount of light passes to the film. In some filters, half ND filters can be very effective to lower the contrast, esp the sky to achieve more balance effect.

Density separation is used by exposing the same negative to the same piece of photographic paper a series of times in differing orientations. Usually, density separation necessitates three different exposures.

Density - The darkness in a negative or print area that determines the amount of light that will pass through it or reflect from it.
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Air density:
The density of the air in terms of mass per unit volume.
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The density of the lines correlates to the steepness of the terrain. This is easy to imagine, as the elevation gain per distance is much larger.

The density of mercury will change with temperature, so a reading must be adjusted for the temperature of the instrument. For this purpose a mercury thermometer is usually mounted on the instrument.

The density of the dots, known as the resolution, determines how sharply the image is represented. This is often expressed in dots per inch (dpi ) or simply by the number of rows and columns, such as 640 by 480.

The density introduced to the highlight (extreme low- exposure) regions of a print by the Sabatier exposure and subsequent development increases with the magnitude of the Sabatier exposure, just as one might expect.

High density filters are worth investing in as well. Very useful when shooting about 60 degrees to the sun. Especially our high altitudes here in Reno and Lake Tahoe we are about 4500 ft altitude to start. -Evan
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Neutral density filters will stop a specified amount of light entering the camera. I tend to use these for shooting waterfalls on a sunny day.

Neutral density filters simply absorb light of all wavelengths. A 0.6D filter absorbs 2 stops of light and a 0.9D filter absorbs three stops of light.

Neutral density (ND) filters are simply filters which block a certain percentage of light from passing through. In other words, they're darkening filters.

Lattice density Lattice density parameter controls the density of the elastic distortion lattice in the alignment algorithm.

- Neutral Density Filters: These filters reduce the amount of light entering the camera which gives you the benefit of taking a longer exposure; it is good if you want to take a picture of flowing water like waterfalls, or streams, ...

Split-field-density filters have a graduated area of color (or density) across the surface of the filter.

How to Convert Density to Molarity
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Get close. The density and color of seawater are enemies to quality underwater imaging.
Find clear water. Of course this isn't always possible. But clear water is better for reducing backscatter, especially when using a camera's built-in flash.

Although image density ranges from pure white to pure black, no detail can be seen in those areas. As you progress from pure white into slightly darker areas, detail emerges.

Flux Density (see also Brightness) When we describe Sirius as the brightest star in the sky, we are talking about flux density. This is a measure of how bright things seem to us from our platform on Earth.

The third and last very useful filter is the Neutral Density filter (ND filter). The ND filter is most commonly used by landscape photographers. This is a neutral grey filter which reduces the amount of light that reaches the camera lens.

Neutral Density Filter A neutral density or ND filter. It reduces the amount of transmitted light without affecting color balance; especially useful when you want to control aperture or shutter speed in brightly lit situations.

We used a neutral density graduated filter (ND Grad) to capture more detail in the sky. Many landscape photographers use these filters to balance the bright skies of a scene with the foreground, which is often darker.
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Short for neutral density filter; used to reduce the amount of light passing through a lens without altering the image's color or tonal rendition.
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