Introduction to Video Measurement, Second Edition | 
 enlarge | Author: Peter Hodges
Publisher: Focal Press
Category: Book
Buy New: $189.30
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Sales Rank: 2770883
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 203
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.2 x 0.5
ISBN: 0240516419
Dewey Decimal Number: 778.59
EAN: 9780240516417
ASIN: 0240516419
Publication Date: May 3, 2001
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Product Description
What do we measure and why? Peter Hodges sets out in approachable language and with clear illustrations, the answers to this question. New entrants to the video industry, as well as those already established, will find this a uniquely readable guide to the basics of a complex subject.
The essence of 'measurement' is to make sure that all the parts fit. In video this means making sure the picture fits the system, or conversely, the system can handle the picture.
The second edition brings this text into the digital age, while recognising that an understanding of analogue video is still essential. New sections include digital video, digital measurement techniques, LCD displays, colour and compression.
Peter Hodges FBIPP, FRPS, IEng, has worked for many years in the television, film and photographic industries. He promotes the concept of teaching video engineering from its
visual base, a technique of particular value to the less technically minded. He worked for many years at BBC Pebble Mill in engineering, lighting, and special effects, and is the author of The Video Camera Operator's Handbook, also published by Focal Press.
A jargon-free introduction to the subject, suitable for the non technically-minded
Highly illustrated to aid understanding
Now covers digital technology
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| Customer Reviews:
 Depth lacking clarity April 14, 2002
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
An interesting excursion into television theory, with practical explanations on the reading and interpreting of waveforms, vectorscopes, and the like, apparently written for non engineers (like me). However, this book is handicapped by inconsistent sentence structure, puzzling and sometimes incoherent explanations, strange jumps in logical thought, and (for American readers) the unusual way some English writers tend to express themselves in print. Especially engineers. This promising book would be worth its... price if it had been edited for clarity and grammer. Unfortunately, although its seems like there is a lot of useful and practical information in this book, solving the logical and gramatical puzzles to dig it out takes too much effort.
 Wrote only for Engineers and Technicias in TV. June 15, 2000
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
A Job in TV systems needs knowledge about mesuaring the quality of the signal. Technical Quality Control(TQC) staff need books like this.
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