A series of roughly two dozen hours of lectures by Dick Lyon, given to Google engineers, covering the technology behind photography: optics, human color vision, silicon image sensors, and the algorithms that turn raw camera data into usable images.

Commenters recommend it as a deep, engineering-oriented treatment of the science behind digital photography, beyond typical photography instruction.

What commenters said (2)

1. Recommendsjacobolus2011in “Stanford CS course on digital photography”

   I recommend Dick Lyon’s lectures to Google engineers a few years ago about “photographic technology”. http://www.dicklyon.com/phototech/

2. Recommendsjacobolus2010in “Google Code University”

   This isn’t exactly the same thing, but for anyone interested in the tech/science side of photography (optics, human color vision, silicon sensors, algorithms converting raw camera data to usable images, &c. &c.), I recommend Dick Lyon’s series of “Photographic Technology” lectures at google, a couple dozen hours of material:

   http://www.dicklyon.com/phototech/

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