Hurter and Driffield

Ferdinand Hurter (1844–1898) and Vero Charles Driffield (1848–1915) were nineteenth-century photographic scientists who brought quantitative scientific practice to photography through the methods of sensitometry and densitometry.

Hurter & Driffield's actinograph.

H & D curve used in sensitometry

Among their other innovations was a photographic exposure estimation device known as an actinograph.^[1]

See also

• H&D speed numbers, originally described in 1890, for film speed measurements

References

1. William Bates Ferguson, ed. (1920). The Photographic Researches of Ferdinand Hurter & Vero C. Driffield: Being a Reprint of Their Published Papers, Together With a History of Their Early Work & a Bibliography of Later Work on the Same Subject. London: Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain.

External links

• A brief history of Hurter and Driffield by Ron Callender in Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-century Photography 2008 pp.732-4