Photophys.com: The Science of Photography

The book "Science for the Curious Photographer" is now available for sale here.  Until August 15 the following discount code is in effect: intro010.  You can click on the Buy Now button to see the effect of this discount on the price.  Should you buy this book?  Readers tell me that this book is great for some people but not for everybody.  Parts of it require some facility with mathematics and a tolerance for equations.  To help with your decision, I have included a link to the detailed TOC.  Also, you can read parts of the book.  I suggest you look at the recent excerpt on art in photography published on Luminous Landscape (LL).  An earlier LL excerpt on equivalent images contains a few equations.  Also, the chapter on close-up photography (930 kb pdf) can be downloaded here.   This chapter contains equations and simple algebra.

Proposals for hardcopy editions are still being considered by publishers now.  I will report on those efforts later.