Scientific Photos

Japanese: 科学写真 - かがくしゃしん

Photography uses the physical, chemical, or technical properties of photography to serve as a medium for measurement and analysis. It is a means of perception that eliminates the subjectivity of the senses and obtains precise, accurate, and objective recorded material. Photographs are taken with the aim of recording the subject as well as measuring length, area, time, and illuminance, but extremely high precision is required in each stage of the optical system (lenses, etc.), exposure, photosensitive materials, and development process, which is one of the distinctive aspects of scientific photography that sets it apart from general photography. Taking the example of the beginnings of scientific photography as a microscope, French scientist Alfred Donné was already taking microscope photographs with a daguerreotype in 1840, and in 1845 published 80 illustrations in copperplate aquatint prints in Donné's Lectures on the Microscope.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

写真の物理･化学的，あるいは技術的特性を利用し，測定，解析の媒介として供する写真。感覚の主観性を排し，精密，正確，客観的な記録資料を得る認識手段。対象の記録とともに長さ，面積，時間，照度の測定を目的として撮影するが，レンズなどの光学系，露光，感光物質，現像処理の各場面において，きわめて高い精度が要求され，これが一般の写真と違う科学写真の特徴的な一側面となっている。科学写真の始まりを顕微鏡写真に例をとると，1840年にフランスの科学者ドネAlfred Donnéが早くもダゲレオタイプで顕微鏡写真を撮影し，45年には《ドネの顕微鏡講義》に80枚の図版をアクアチント法による銅版画にして公刊している。

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