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¡MTBHHATIQHA1 SOCIETY OE HÎOTOGRAI.3-EIRY 
COMMISSION I 
Report to the 1968 International Congress 
at Lausanne, July 1968 
1. Conrnl ss ion 
At the 1964 Congress at Lisbon in September 19^4, responsibility for 
Commission I was vested in the United Kingdom. The principal officers were 
to be:- 
R. W. Fish 
G. C. Brock 
G-. R. Cooper 
President 
Associate President 
Secretary 
Following the Congress, the President invited the following to become 
officers of the Commission Board, 
Netherlands 
France 
Sweden 
Ir. F. L. Corten 
M. Jean C rus et 
Prof. B. Ilallert 
2. Work of the Commission 
The main work of the Commission has been carried out by four Working 
Groups concerned with:- 
1) Image Quality 
2) Image Location 
3) Photograph Materials 
4; Navigation 
Each of these Working Groups has, under its own Chairman, carried out 
studies and kept in touch with research work and other activities throughout 
the world. The terms of reference of the individual Working Groups is given 
in following sections. The programme of Commission I during the 1968 
Lausanne Congress will largely be based upon these Working Groups. 
3. Symposium 1966 
The Commission held a Symposium at University College, London in September 
1966. The main purpose of the Symposium fos to consider various problems of 
Image Quality and its measurement through the Optical Transfer Function. 
However, the opportunity was taken to discuss the work of each of the Working 
Groups and the programme of the Commission for the Lausanne Congress. 
The symposium was very successful being attended by some 70 persons from 
many member Societies. A feature of the meeting was the animated diseursion 
following the fomal papers. A summary of the technical proceedings is 
attached as an Appendix to this report, 
4. Working Group on Image Quality 
The Chairm-n of this Working Group is Hr. G. C. Brock. The Terms of 
Reference given to it were:- 
(a) draft immediately a report on the present status of the optical 
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