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The study of the measurement of light in terms of the visual response (either the eye or optical instruments, e.g. lightmeter) is referred to as photometry. This chapter seeks to highlight the most relevant units and numbers.
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Schmidtmann, G. (2020). Photometry. In: Clinical Vision Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35340-7_6
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