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I have been looking for a book like this a long time..., August 5, 2005
The Manual of Photography: Photographic and Digital Imaging
Manual of Photography, Ninth Edition (Media Manual)I don't normally take the time to write recommendations, but I thought I would take the time to comment on this book. I am sure there are plenty of people out there who are frustrated, like I was, because they can't find a comprehensive and technical piece of literature that explains in great detail the many laws, properties, and techniques that comprise the field of photography. If you are one of these people then this is your book.I have been searching for months and all I had found was an endless list of simple self-help books geared toward amateur photographers. This is all fine and dandy, but what I wanted was a book written for the professional photographer that explained all the education that I learned back in college, but then forgot. If you want to learn in great detail about topics that other books just gloss over, briefly mention or skip altogether then this is your book.Be forwarned, however, that there is probably more information in this book...
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| Author: M. Ent "Reader" (New Jer.. | I have bought this book based on the prior two reviews. Read it with a pen and paper a few times. And the overall impression is "indifference bordering on disappointment".Let me though first mention the positives that I found about this book. It covers a lot of topics on photography. It can provide the first (more technical) understanding of photography. It provides references that you can research if you want a greater in-depth understanding of photography. It is what I would call an encyclopedic, i.e. reference, text, albeit quite inadequate.Yet, it is incomplete and some sections are inaccurate. Subject that are incomplete include photographic flashes, densitometry, color film development chemistry (not pre-mixed Kodak solutions), color reproduction with negative films, and many many others. When different sections of the book are interrelated, they are not even cross-referenced within such sections. If they use formulas, such formulas may have even... | 38 | |
| Author: Fazal Majid (San Francis.. | This book is simply wonderful. It is a detailed and comprehensive treatise on the physical, optical, chemical and otherwise scientific theory behind photography (the authors all have a bevy of these wonderfully quaint British learned society titles, in addition to a hefty list of PhDs and graduate degrees). Also distinctive is that the first edition was published in 1890 and thus it spans three centuries! | 33 | |
| Author: Brett Eckert (Jackson, W.. | I don't normally take the time to write recommendations, but I thought I would take the time to comment on this book. I am sure there are plenty of people out there who are frustrated, like I was, because they can't find a comprehensive and technical piece of literature that explains in great detail the many laws, properties, and techniques that comprise the field of photography. If you are one of these people then this is your book.I have been searching for months and all I had found was an endless list of simple self-help books geared toward amateur photographers. This is all fine and dandy, but what I wanted was a book written for the professional photographer that explained all the education that I learned back in college, but then forgot. If you want to learn in great detail about topics that other books just gloss over, briefly mention or skip altogether then this is your book.Be forwarned, however, that there is probably more information in this book... | 37 | |
