GOOD PICTURE ONLINE APRIL 2026

Following the successful inaugural meeting of the new Good Picture series of Online talks on Zoom in October 2025, the Imaging Science Group of the RPS was pleased to host its first meeting of 2026 on 11th April. There were two speakers who, as previously with our Good Picture meetings, provided photographic practitioners, keen amateurs and students with insights into Imaging

Programme

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Fundamental Limits of Mobile Phone Cameras

Chris Dainty PhD, Hon FRPS, Emeritus Professor

Approximately 5 billion photos and 500 million hours of video are recorded on mobile phone cameras each day. The image quality is remarkable but falls short of that obtained by "real" digital cameras. What governs the image quality of phone cameras, and what aspect of them fundamentally limits their performance?

Material Science in Photography: Surface and Nanostructures

Dr Rita Hofmann–Sievert Hon FRPS 

To master the capture and recording of light, scientists in the photographic industry had to master materials on the submicron and nanometre scale, well before modern tools of nanotechnology were available. We perceive materials as homogenous pieces of matter with defined physical and chemical properties. But it is often their surface, with sometimes very different characteristics, that interacts with light and the environment. The presentation will address some of the surface science involved in image output materials.