Harold M. Merklinger recently retired from the Defence Research
Establishment Atlantic (as its Director-General) in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia,
Canada. His main scientific contributions have been in the field of underwater
acoustics although his experience has covered communications, space surveillance
and ship technology. His main hobby since the age of eight, however, has
been photography, with a lesser interest in motorsport. (He's a past president
of the Bluenose Autosport Club in Dartmouth.) The
information in these books is the result of his personal research; it is
not related to his work for the Canadian Government.
Unable to afford accessory telephoto lenses in his early years, Harold often
used slow films and fine grain development to obtain the results he sought.
This practice focused his attention on high resolution work and the inadequacies
of standard depth of field theory. In 1990 he published a book, The INs
and OUTs of FOCUS, in order to share his findings with others.
Early readers of the book asked about view camera applications and this
led in turn to his second photography book, FOCUSING the VIEW CAMERA
. (Harold acquired an 8 by 10 inch format camera in 1964, but
could not afford to keep it in film! His current view camera is a 5 by 7
inch B&J.)
Harold was educated at the Royal Military College
of Canada, and the University
of Birmingham (in England). He is a Fellow of the Acoustical
Society of America, a member of the Canadian
Acoustical Association, and a founding member of The Institute of Acoustics
of Atlantic Canada. Those interested in underwater acoustics might wish
to consult his book Progress in Underwater Acoustics published
by Plenum Press in 1986.
For a picture of Harold, select this link (32k
GIF).
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Nova Scotia,
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