Sensitometry

The term Sensitometry is DIN standard 19040 (Part 12 ) as: "Investigation of the photographic properties of radiation-sensitive materials and the various steps of the photographic process."

Especially in photography and in film and video technology is Sensitometry the collective name for methods of measurement, with those properties, such as the sensitivity of photographic materials can be determined. In particular, name for the light sensitivity measurement of photographic papers.

As Sensitometry is defined as the measurement of the light sensitivity of a light-sensitive emulsion, such as a film or plate in the photographic and prepress.

Simply explained: Sensitometry concerned with what obtained for an effect of light on the photographic paper or film.

A variant of the sensitometry Farbsensitometrie, wherein the color sensitivity is measured.