Photography (Penguin Handbooks)

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 5th. Thus.* Impression: Reprint.* Date of Publication: 1972 (1970)* Publisher: Penguin.* Binding and cover condition: Colour photo-illustrated soft card covers different to that illustrated at heading. Minor bumps & rubs. Slight shelf wear to edges & corners. Some creases to corners, spine & hinge. Somewhat grubby. GD* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean & tight. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, considerable tanning throughout heaviest to page margins and edges. ACC* Illustrations: A number of b/w photos, line drawings and diagrams within text throughout.* Pages: 318 pp. text. xviii pp. bibliography & index at rear.* Product Description:- Fifth Edition: This book is designed to help and stimulate the amateur photographer. It begins with a section on the history of photography, but the bulk of the book is devoted to a straight-forward account of the craft of photography. It explains simply and without jargon, all about cameras, films, tripods, light meters, colour filters, lamps and so on: It gives advice on how to work a camera and how to deal with the different kinds of photography from portraits to landscapes, from photomicrography to capturing the significant, moving instant of life. NB this book relates to the analogue process of photography and was written long before the advent of digital media.* This is an ACCEPTABLE copy of with minimal shelf wear but heavy paper tanning.*