Hi,
Check out the section on photo books on my site:
http://www.bigfoot.com/~swietanowski -> Photo resources
HTH,
Artur Swietanowski http://www.bigfoot.com/~swietanowski
rec.photo.equipment.35mm
From: "Benno Jones" quix@hotmail.com
[1] Re: Help on Russian 3ehnt et camera
Date: Tue Oct 26 1999
Look for Princelle's Guide to Russian and Soviet Cameras. Officially out of
print, but available through some photo web sites for around $50.00
Max wrote
>Hi, > >Is there any decent FAQ or book on the Zenits? I have one and soon to have >1 or 2 more. I have not found any decent comprehensive source of information. > >I would like to see a FAQ with model numbers and years produce etc. > >Max
Hi Max,
rec.photo.equipment.35mm
From: ruscam645@my-deja.com
[1] Re: Help on Russian 3ehnt et camera
Date: Tue Oct 26 1999
You need a copy of " The Authentic Guide to Russian and Soviet cameras:
made in USSR" by Jean Loup Princelle.
This book is about the best there is on the subject so far.
You can probably still get a copy from Kiev/USA.
Regards,
Kevin
rec.photo.technique.nature
From: Ron Ginsberg ginsb001@minn.net
[1] Re: Good book on macro photography
Date: Tue Oct 26 1999
I have and like Sierra Club Guide to Close-up Photography in Nature, Tim
Fitzharris. Clear diagrams of optical and lighting set-ups. Alternative
methods with pros and cons.
rec.photo.technique.nature
From: "W. Tracy Parnell" Tracy@madbbs.com
[1] Re: Good book on macro photography
Date: Wed Oct 27 1999
Marc P. marcpotvin@yahoo.ca
> Ok, this question may have been asked a zillion times and there may be > some good sites on the subject but... > > I would just like a few suggestions on a good book on macro > photography. I'm looking for a book with lots of practical tips that I > can easilly go out and try in the field. Thanks for any suggestions. > > Marc P.
A book I enjoyed and recommend is "How to Photograph Insects and Spiders" by
Larry West. Shaw's book is great too especially for the technical end of
things.
W. Tracy Parnell
http://www.madbbs.com/~tracy/
From: Brad Mitchell bradjmnotospam@gte.net
Subject: Re: What are those camera books?
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999
Gloria,
Those darn dogs! My black lab puppy is still eating everything in
sight! But you've got to love them.
I'm pretty sure you are referring to the Hove and Magic Lantern
reference books. These are excellent! I have one for my Canon A2 and
my Canon 540EZ flash. MUCH more useful than the Canon manuals. They
explain how to use a given feature of your camera and provide examples
of when you might want to use them. Uses are often illustrated with
actual photos.
Check out the last paragraph on the Recommended Reading page of my
website at http://home1.gte.net/bradjm/Reading.html
Good luck,
Brad Mitchell
bradjm@gte.net
http://home1.gte.net/bradjm/Photo.html
.....
From Rollei Mailing List:
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999
From: Roland Smith roland@dnai.com
Subject: Re: [Rollei] OT darkroom chemicals - hazardous?
I have a very interesting book I would recommend all keep in their library
for reference:
Overexposure: Health Hazards in Photography
Second Edition
Susan D. Shaw & Monona Rossol
This publication appears to be a very comprehensive source on information.
It serves as an alert for when certain protective measures are necessary.
...
From Nikon Mailing List:
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999
From: john prendergast john.prendergast@tesco.net
Subject: Re: [Rollei] OT master printing
Also, take a look at Larry Bartlett's, Black & White, Photographic Printing
Workshop. I think that you will find this a very valuable publication.
Regards,
John Prendergast
...
> > > Is there a very advanced darkroom printing book that > > > would have master printing techniques, or is > > > this something one can only learn from watching a > > > master printer? > > The Photographer's Master Printing Course by Tim Rudman is worth a look. He > takes the art of printing to a level far above my work. I plan to keep this > book on hand for the foreseeable future.
From Rollei Mailing List:
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999
From: Bob Shell bob@bobshell.com
Subject: Re: [Rollei] OT master printing
> The Photographer's Master Printing Course by Tim Rudman is worth a look. He > takes the art of printing to a level far above my work. I plan to keep this > book on hand for the foreseeable future.
I second this! Excellent book on advanced printing techniques. I would
also add Ctein's _Post Exposure_ for those who want to understand the
tech stuff inside out, upside down.
Bob Shell
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999
From: "J. Matthews" whence@att.net
Newsgroups: rec.photo.equipment.35mm
Subject: Re: John Hedgecoe
I never found Hedgecoe's books very useful for anything but the most basic
information, which any book will cover, and which his books seem to cover
particularly inefficiently both in terms of book heft and desk time
invested by the beginning photographer. The first book I was struck by was
Henry Horenstein's Black and White Photography: A Basic Manual. Perfectly
clear, everything useful. Later I came across the London/Upton book
Photography, which I also like - clear, to the point, up to date, and (as
opposed to the Horenstein book) quite comprehensive. There's even a
section on view cameras and their raison d'etre. These two volumes are
still my favorite references.
By the way, they're often used as photography course texts, so you can buy
them relatively cheap at text book sites like www.bigword.com
Russell Lam wrote in message ...
>Hi, > >Is The Photographer's Handbook, written by John Hedgecoe, useful? Does it >have anything worth reading and is it in general a worthy investment? I have >read some of his "easier to read books" and they were quite useful, but this >one is quite expensive and looks quite advanced. Any input would be >appreciated. > >thanx
From Hasselblad List:
Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2000
From: Marc James Small msmall@roanoke.infi.net
To: hasselblad@kelvin.net
Subject: Re: Nordin, Hasselblad Compendium
1003 wrote:
>Where can one get a copy of this book from? Amazon and Barnes&Noble do not >have them.
Neither Amazon nor B&N; stock many, if any, camera books. Looking there
for such is an exercize in futility.
You can order the HASSELBLAD COMPENDIUM through any full-service camera
store by asking them to special-order it through Saunders/Silver Pixel
Press. Or you can try "the usual suspects" -- A Photographers Place,
Koh's, Tamarkin, PacRim, KEH, or from Petra Kellers in California, at
PKell1014@aol.com.
Marc
Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2000
From: Jim Brick jim@brick.org
Reply to: hasselblad@kelvin.net
Subject: Re: Nordin, Hasselblad Compendium
Keeble and Shuchat Photography in Palo Alto CA [(650-327-8996) ask for
Jeff] always has both the "Hasselblad Compendium" and "The Hasselblad
Manual, fifth edition" in stock. They will ship.
They also have Marc James Small's Zeiss Compendium and Leica Thread Mount
Lens books in stock.
Jim
From Leica Mailing List:
Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2000
From: Denton Taylor denton@asan.com
Subject: System Handbook
I was in Wall Street Camera last week and asked them to order a hood for
my
Noctilux. He pulled out a nicely bound and printed catalog entitled
"Handbook of the Leica System 1999--2000". It seems to have every single
item made by Leica including projectors and binoculars. It even has short
descriptions of the older M cameras.
I'm sure many of you hard-core LEGers already have this but if not I
recommend it. He sold me a copy for only a few dollars.
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999
From: Keith Richard Bilo krbilo@yahoo.com
Newsgroups:
rec.photo.technique.people,rec.photo.technique.misc,rec.photo.technique.nature,r
ec.photo.technique.art
Subject: Re: Book? Roger Hicks and Frances Schultz
Hi,
I currently own the following Pro-Lighting Series books:
- Food Shots - Night Shots - Product Shots - New Product Shots - Special Effects - Still Life
I'm planing on buying the Portrait and Interior Shots next, but the
books that I have are great. The diagrams show perfect lighting setups
from the side and top. They also give high-gloss photographs of the
final images and contact information for the photographers. Not only
will the books give great setups but it will also spark many ideas. The
only bad thing about this series is the lack of light settings (e.g. f/8
@ 4 feet), but the books note that this information is not provided due
to the variations in lighting equipment. Hope this might have helped.
- Keith
Sarawoot Chittratanawat wrote:
> Hi > Have you guys read this book "Portraits (Pro-Lighting Series) by Roger > Hicks, Frances Schultz"? > I roughly read some parts at bookstore and found it's easy to follow light > setup. But I don't know there might be better book for "studio lighting > setup". Any comments of this book or suggestion of another book? > By the way, I haven't had any books from Pro-Lighting Series at all. Any > good or bad of this series -compared to John Shaw or Bryan Peterson or > Freeman Patterson or Jim Zuckerman books?
From Rollei Mailing List;
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999
From: Jonathan Prescott jonpre@uswest.net
Subject: Re: [Rollei] OT master printing
> --- melinda lernerm@mediaone.net wrote: > > Is there a very advanced darkroom printing book that > > would have master printing techniques, or is > > this something one can only learn from watching a > > master printer?
The Photographer's Master Printing Course by Tim Rudman is worth a look.
He takes the art of printing to a level far above my work. I plan to keep
this book on hand for the foreseeable future.
Jonathan Prescott
Date: 28 Oct 1999
From: pburian@aol.com (PBurian)
Newsgroups: rec.photo.technique.nature
Subject: Re: Good book on macro photography
Another good macro book, and fairly new.
How to Photograph Close-Ups In Nature, Stackpole Books. by Lustbader and
Rotenberg.
Nancy Rotenberg wrote some articles for me when I was Editor of OUTDOOR &
NATURE Photography mag. Extremely knowledgeable, articulate and an
artisitic sense toward nature photography.
Peter Burian
[Ed. note: great books for camera gearheads and history buffs!...]
From Rollei Mailing List:
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999
From: curtiscr@pe.net
Subject: Re: [Rollei] 2.8GX and Leica M6 (border-line OT)
> One of the books I read and reread, was "Collecting and Using Classic > Cameras" buy Ivor Matanle.
He also has a book "Collecting and Using Classic SLRs." If you
find one in a book store, you won't be able to put it down.
From Rollei Mailing List:
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999
From: Les Alvis lalvis@tsixroads.com
Subject: Re: [Rollei] Rollei photographer question
>There is a major PBS series on American Photography coming out sometime >this next TV season. I just got the companion book in for review, and >it is really fine.
This will air on PBS on October 13 at 8:00 EDT. See
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/americanphotography/
Les Alvis
From Contax Mailing List:
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000
From: "Bob Shell" bob@bobshell.com
Subject: Re: [CONTAX] Composition -- another idea
A great book I read last year is _The Last Years of Walker Evans_ .
In it the author, who was his assistant during those final years,
tells of how Evans would work. They would be driving along and
he would spot something and they would park the car and he would
take his Rollei TLR and begin to "work" the subject. First he would
shoot from a moderate distance and a variety of angles. Then he
would move gradually closer and closer, walking around all sides,
focusing on details, working from different heights and angles. He
would continue until he had the feeling he had pulled everything
possible from the subject, and then they would move on. Out of
the several rolls of film shot in this way, he would pick one or
two negatives to make final prints from.
In one of his videos Fred Picker talks in the same terms of working
a subject until you have pulled all you can from it.
Bob
- ----------
>From: muchan muchan@promikra.si >To: contax@photo.cis.to >Subject: Re: [CONTAX] Composition -- another idea >Date: Fri, Apr 7, 2000, 6:10 AM > > One more idea about learning/improving one's composition. > > To shoot same subject/scene in different categories or attitudes. > > For example, when you find something beautiful or interesting to > take photo, > > (1) instinctive/sponteneoud/impression/reaction category > > Take the first exposure just to capture as you saw it at the first > moment, without too much consideration and technical details. > (for street photographers, it may be the final goal to improve this > kind of shooting...) > > Then, going into second > > (2) Classic category > > To try to achieve "classic" or "standard" composition anyone would > appreciate. Like one accepted as, if landscape, for general post card > or so, if portrait, as a official portrait of the person in general use. > > When you achieved the "enough good" shot of 2nd category, you go through > > (3) Artistic category > > To try to introduce one more twist, deeper feeling, more dynamic > interpretation etc., that not everyone may appreciate, but some > more artistically minded people would praise more than the "classic" > shot. > > When you get it, then go further the edge: > > (4) Individualistic category > > To try to shoot one that is the extreme edge of your capacity, that > more than that is no no to yourself, either technically or aesthetically. > Only a few people who has same kind of personality like you, may > appreciate the photo and rest of people would just wonder why you did it... > > While trying all categories, probably you've checked more possible angle > of view than you would otherwise, and from these possibility, go back to > (2) and (3) category and make one that is the "best" for yourself... > > muchan
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999
From: "NaturePhotographer@Mail.Com" naturephotographer@mail.com
Newsgroups: rec.photo.technique.nature
Subject: Re: outdoor photography books and such
Agreed on John Shaw for sure. His books (and photography) are as good as
you will find. He has several books out...all of which are well done
including one the focuses on closeup photography, one that focuses on
Landscape, one that focuses on field techniques and one that focuses on
the business aspects of nature photography.
John Shaw's Closeups in Nature:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0817440526/o/qid=937972731/sr=2-1/002
-5057916-7921008
Nature Photographer's Complete Guide to Professional Field Techniques:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0817450068/ref=sim_books/002-5057916-
7921008
John Shaw's Landscape Photography:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/081743710X/ref=sim_books/002-5057916-
7921008
John Shaw's Business of Nature Photography : A Professional's Guide to
Marketing and Managing a Successful Nature Photography Business
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/081744050X/ref=sim_books/002-5057916-
7921008
Rowell's Mountain Light is a great book once you have been shooting for a
while. This is especially true if you are focusing on mountain or scenic
photography. Closely reading this book also helps one understand Galen's
persona.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0871563673/ref=sim_books/002-5057916-
7921008
Other real good books...
John Fielder: Photographing the Landscape : The Art of Seeing
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1565792289/qid=937972475/sr=1-29/002-
5057916-7921008
and
Art Wolfe: The Art of Photographing Nature
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0517880342/ref=sim_books/002-5057916-
7921008
My favorite is actually Fielder's book. This book is organized in a very
clear manner.
You can't go wrong with any of the above though...and if you are like me
you will probably end up with copies of most if not all of these books.
PS...I don't work for nor advertise for Amazon.com....just my usual source
for referencing books cause I live in Seattle. All these books are most
likely carried by Barnes and Noble or any other mainstream bookstore.
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999
From: frostycat@my-deja.com
Newsgroups: rec.photo.equipment.medium-format
Subject: Re: 6x7 camera choice?
Suggest "The Professional Photo Source Book" from B&H.; All the gear
and lots of info and stats and photos that should be important to you
for this consideration. The differences among the various medium
format systems should become clearer as you take some time with this.
Yes, it is a marketing catalogue. However, the stats. and info stand
on their own IMHO.
Date: Sat, 22 May 1999
From: "Paul Skelcher" skelch@erols.com
Newsgroups: rec.photo.technique.misc
Subject: Re: Is this book any good?
Patrick White wrote
> I was referred a book on closeup photography: "Manual of Close-Up >Photography" by Lester Lefkowitz. Has somebody that has even seen this >book talk to me about it?
Hi Pat,
If you're into serious close-up photography, you need this book.
250pp of good basic info. Intro- 10pp, Preliminaries-20pp, Supp close up
lenses-16pp, Ext tubes/bellows- 30pp, Macro lenses-20pp, Teleconverters,
enlarging lenses- 24pp, Position/support- 21pp, Lighting- 32pp, Slide
dup-12pp, Exposure- 10pp, Stuff- 16pp.
In 1979, $19.95.
Best Paul
[Ed. note: Why Photobooks are pricey, and so few...]
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000
From: "Bob Shell" bob@bobshell.com
Subject: Re: [CONTAX] 645 flash
- ----------
>From: Chris Duzynski cduz@execpc.com >To: contax@photo.cis.to >Subject: Re: [CONTAX] 645 flash >Date: Thu, Apr 13, 2000, 5:56 PM > > A few years ago, I ordered "Only Zeiss". The almost-tabloid-sized hard > covered Contax system book. It'd be great if some entity could partially > fund another type of book, highlighting all the Contax gear, including the > newest 645 components yet to be released.
Great book and good reference. Unfortunately, it doesn't include the
newest stuff. It's beautifully printed.
> The only thing I didn't like about the book was the multilingual format. My > inability to read Japanese was a drawback in sections that did not have an > english language translation.
I didn't think there was anything in the book in Japanese that wasn't
also in English.
> I seem to remember that "Only Zeiss" was about $40 to $50. The Contax users > in the world are quite fanatical. I'd bet you would find at least 10 that > would nibble at that price. I know I would.
Not sure where my copy came from. Probably a gift from Contax at one
of the photokina shows. I keep it nearby here in my office so I can
look things up.
Here, in brief, are the economics involved in something like this. It
is impractical to get a high class printer/binder to do a book of any
sort in a print run of less than 5,000 - 10,000. Most of the photo
books I've written have been run in this neighborhood for the first
run and once that is sold down they may do additional print runs
depending on anticipated demand. Production costs would run somewhere
in the neighborhood of $ 20,000. Add to that another $ 30,000 or
more for the actual printing/binding. Pay the author a reasonable
advance against royalties to cover writing time and you end up with
something in the neighborhood of $ 60,000 out of pocket before you
ever sell even one book. Then there are warehouse costs, bookkeeping,
shipping, etc.
For a publisher to put up this kind of bucks up front there must be a
reasonable expectation of reasonably quick sell through. If I wrote a
book five years ago and there are still some from the first print run
in the warehouse, you know the publisher will be reluctant to reprint
or do another book on the same product line. Most of my books have
been on Canon for this reason. The products sell fast and so do the
books.
Bob
Date: 29 May 1999
From: huggy52@aol.com (Huggy52)
Newsgroups: rec.photo.equipment.35mm
Subject: Re: good photography book
A great book for the new photographer, or anyone who is looking to start
getting better images, is "Shoot". Each chapter is by a different
professional photographer and along with the description of the
techniques, are photographs showing exactly what they mean. I recommed
this book to all my new photo students, and all seem to gain from it.
Hope this Helps, Good Shooting.
Mark
[Ed.note: for your info, not an endorsement...]
From: cbfrock@aol.com (CBFrock)
Newsgroups: rec.photo.marketplace
Subject: Discounted photo books, videos & source guide
Date: 31 May 1999
Expert Educational Resources is now offering an online catalog of
discounted books, videos, and a photographer's knowledge enhancing source
guide. It's free on-line at:
http://www.expert-educational.com/pro-photog
Best of all, we offer our books & videos at a better discount rate than
any other major chain book & video retailer...GUARANTEED!
Newsgroups: rec.photo.technique.misc
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000
From: "Richard Knight" thedreamcatcher@email.msn.com
Subject: Re: Book on flash technique?
Check out this site for ELM Photo:
http://pages.prodigy.net/ecmorris/ and also check on books at the public
library. If you find a book you would like to purchase check out:
www.powellsbooks.com for good prices on used books (huge bookstore in
Portland OR with over one million available).
From Rollei Mailing List;
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000
From: Matthew Phillips mlphilli@hsc.vcu.edu
Subject: Re: [Rollei] prochnow obstacles
Try Petra Kellars Photo/ACR Books at http://www.camerabooks.com/
They generally stock the Prochnow volumes, among their huge selection of
obscure camera book titles. The danger is, you may well find quite a few
other titles you didn't already know you wanted.
Cheers,
M.Phillips
From: Tony Spadaro t_spadaro@my-deja.com
Newsgroups: rec.photo.technique.misc,rec.photo.technique.art
[1] Re: The Picture: Classic art principles in photography
Date: Fri May 12 2000
.....
Andreas Feininger, wrote several books in the 50s 60s and into the
70s. As far as teh camera equipment and films are concerned they are
all way out of date - But Feininger, an architect from a family of
artists, was a master of both the science and the art of photography.
These titles are worth seeking out. There are others but these are
the ones I know well.
Feininger on Photography
Advanced Photography
The Creative Photographer
The Complete Photographer
One of his books still in print is "New York in the Forties" a photo
book of views of Manhattan - some taken from as far away as seven
miles, with a home made telephoto camera.
It's not an expensive book - Dover publications, and I see it in used
book stores occasionally.
--
Digital Photo restoration in Chapel Hill N.C.
http://www.homeusers.prestel.co.uk/magor/tony
From Minolta Mailing List:
Date: Fri, 05 May 2000
From: "Robert E. Johnson" rjohnson@voyager.net
Subject: Re: Slide or Negative film
Here's a simple note... not long ago I found two David Douglas Duncan
books in a used book store... one was entirely on sunflowers
photographed in France in the early 1980s... with Kodak 400 print film
of the time, a 35-105 zoom lens and a 200 lens... all handheld (we don't
need to know the make.) In the preface he describes the incredulity of
his professional colleagues... but if you can find a copy of the book,
take a look and see what is possible with print film. And that's print
film of the early 80s. Remarkable. He also describes some fantastic
speedy print folk in Switzerland who took the time and trouble to
produce the first "proof" prints of the shots... good enough to show.
Bob Johnson
[Ed. note: now books on CDs ;-) ...]
From Leica Mailing List:
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000
From: Mark Rabiner mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com
Subject: [Leica] Erwins' Leica History CD!
Anyone one tenth as fond of Leica as I am will find the 15 dollar Leica
History, Leica 1925-1965 in CD form the best thing they ever got. Great
Graphics filled with resonance! An Erwin Puts effort!
Plenty to read and gander at!!!!
I'm going to try to print some of these pages on my inkjet and frame them
all over my house!
Mark Rabiner
From: gestalt77@aol.com
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000
Newsgroups: rec.photo.technique.nature
Subject: Re: Any Travel guides just for photographers?
gestalt77 writes:
A publication I have found very useful over the years is Robert
Hitchman's
He has covered many areas in the Southwest.
Hope this helps.
Van vantripp@my-deja.com wrote:
From Leica Mailing List:
There was a presentation at the Bowers Museum last night. Chris Rainier
was the speaker on his images of primitive cultures throughout the world.
Chris was the "last" assistant to Ansel Adams. Most of the images were
portraits taken on location. All were in B+W.
Very much in the style of Ansel, there are very dramatic skies, strong
graphical elements and wonderfully deep blacks with wide tonal ranges.
He creates B+W prints then re-photographs them for slide shows.
While Chris does not use Leica ( Hasselblad, Canon, and Diana), his images
are hauntingly beautiful and fully worthy of viewing. He has 2 books
published, both finely created. If you get a chance to view his work, it
is a worthwhile experience.
Frank Filippone
From: "Kerry L. Thalmann" K.Thalmann@worldnet.att.net
Liz Leyden wrote:
Hi Liz,
YES! the BBC Wildlife/British Gas Wildlife Photographer of the Year
competition is one of the most prestigious in the WORLD. The annual
book they publish of the winning entries is packed full of truly
inspirational photos. I also like it because it lets me see the work of
photographers from all around the world, not just the US names I am more
familiar with. And in spite of the name of the competition, they also
have catagories for plants and landscapes.
Kerry
From: "Michael A. Covington" See http://www.CovingtonInnovations.com for
address
Chapter 1 of Astrophotography for the Amateur can now be viewed online at
this address:
http://uk.cambridge.org/assets/samples/0521641330WSC00.PDF
(It's a fairly slow download, so allow some time, and note that the
pictures
in the book are MUCH sharper than in the online sample.)
For full information about the book see:
http://www.CovingtonInnovations.com/astro
Clear skies,
Michael A. Covington / AI Center / The University of Georgia
From: "Richard Knight" adreamcatcher@email.msn.com
Try Henry Horenstein for basic and intermediate B&W; ("Basic Black and
White Photography" and "Beyond Basic Black and White Photography"). In
"Beyond..." he gets into a lot of processing materials and techniques but
that's what's required to step up in B&W.;
Richard
From: Gary Frost gfrost@home.com
"Composition in Art" By Henry Rankin Poore.
Karmadon wrote:
From: David Littlewood david@demon.co.uk
Karmadon karmadonna@my- deja.com writes
If you are into landscape, try "The Making of Landscape Photographs" by
Charlie Waite. A number of his other books are worth reading too. Only
slight drawback is he has a strong preference for square pictures - but
if I could get results as good as his I'd happily accept the
restriction.
--
[Ed. note: not an endorsement, but for your information...]
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Newsgroups: rec.photo.equipment.35mm
Asahi Optical manufactures their own optics also. A few days ago I posted
the address of the Light Machinery Institute in NYC where you can purchase
a BIG book on ONLY companies that manufacture photography equipment and
what they make. I saw one a long time ago, it makes for VERY interesting
reading.
I really don't care who makes what camera, what I do care about is that I
am happy with the results I get. There are people here who believe that
Leica is the only way to fly and some believe the same of Nikon. Some
from both camps apparently feel the need to justify their purchase, as if
they had spent their last dime.
I started with a Pentax Spotmatic, a camera built so well they out live
their owners.
I also have a C33 which continues to do a great job for me and a Pentax K2
with an older 28 - 80 Tokina zoom thats really great.
I shoot for my pleasure and every piece of equipment does the job for me.
Mike
"Chris Kelly" ckelly@imsi.com wrote
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000
Hi,
Any good books on photo composition? I ordered Ernst Wildi's "Composition
Techniques from a Master Photographer" from Amazon.com but would like to
know if there are any other books worth purchasing too? I'm a beginner
and
most of my photography interests are of Nature, landscapes, and animals.
Thanks,
Terry
http://216.103.52.99/~TBONE/index.html
From: Alan n3yy7b@yahoo.com
Focal Press has just recently published my handbook on close-up
photography - a book which explains many of the technical aspects of
"how to" and some creative methods and ideas for subjects ranging from
insides of watches to flowers and insects. For more information, visit
my website at http://www3.sympatico.ca/arcon/
Alan R. Constant
Date: 22 Aug 2000
I don't know if this is the book that was referred to in another post or
not but it's a good one if you're into square-format landscape
photography, as I am.
Check out The Making of Landscape Photographs by Charlie Waite, published
in 1992 by Collins and Brown LTD of London, England.
The author uses a Hasselblad and nearly every photo in the book is
uncropped ... it was this book that convinced me I didn't have to turn my
squares into rectangles in order to create an attractive image. Highly
recommended.
JG
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000
You have had some good suggestions. Another book I like is "The Art of
Photographing Nature" by Martha Hill and Art Wolfe. There are quite a few
comparative composition shots and most photos have comments by the
photographer (Wolfe) and an editor (Hill) about what they were trying to
accomplish and what the critical observer sees.
Scott Elliot
Terry terrydeNO@SPAMpacbell.net wrote
Date: 08 Nov 2000
Yes, that's true. The more general books often sell far more, esp. if they
are in print for a long time. The National Geographic Photography Field
Guide has sold nearly all of the first 100,000 print run and is being
reprinted.
Some of John Shaw's nature photography books have sold 50,000 copies over
the years. (A narrower topic)
Peter Burian
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000
BTW, one resource that has been understated is your local public library.
This is perhaps "American" but I'm sure there are similar resources
available in other countries. I've personally borrowed (and read) so many
photography-related books from my public library that I've only purchased
the books that made a serious impact on my senses. My point is that for
somebody starting out, a local library is perhaps the best bet. Even
out-of-prints are accessible and as Kerry said, for a starter, it is
perhaps best to expose yourself to many different styles, in order to
develop an art of seeing.
Nandakumar
rec.photo.misc
For all those interested. I wrote Dean Collins about finding a copy of
his much prized but hard-to-find book on creating lighting devices from
plastic pipe.
In response, Gary, the webmaster at Collins' site, scanned the book and
has now posted it in pdf form at:
http://www.deancollins.com/tt.html
Enjoy.
Richard Glidewell
From Rollei Mailing List:
Jim,
Thanks for your e-mail. I had heard good things about this particular
Nikkor 20mm F4 from a person in another list. I currently have the AF20mm
F2.8, but he thinks that this particular lens is phenomenal. We'll see,
I'll put it through the test today.
Regarding the book, yes, Marc James Small teamed up
with Charles M.
Barringer to write the "Zeiss Compendium East and West - 1940-1972". It
is the complete authority in everything Zeiss Ikon and affiliates. Great
reference book. That is the book I used for information before
buying my
Contax IIIA.
Regards,
Javier Montiel
[Ed. note: Roger Hicks and Frances Schultz are among my favorite authors
too...]
It's FrancEs, not Francis. Frances is a woman's name, Francis a man's
name. She's Roger's wife. They're old friends of mine and were in
Orlando last week at PMA. Together they've written more than 40 books
on a wide variety of subjects, some totally outside photography, like
their Civil War books, cookbooks, and others. Roger wrote an authorized
biography of the Dalai Lama. Fascinating people. Roger knows more
about photography than anyone else I know. When I am stumped for an
answer I give him a ring or send him an e-mail.
I'm the one who kept pushing them to try out the Contax stuff even though
both professed to be happy with their Nikon gear. I knew that once they
tried Contax there would be no turning back, and that has turned out to be
true. I think they still have their Nikon stuff, though, so not a total
conversion to the one true religion.
Bob
From Leica Topica Mailing List:
A number of people have enquired about Erwin Puts' new book. Last time I
spoke to the publisher they told me that they hoped to bring it out in
mid-Feb, which obviously didn't happen. I spoke to them again today and
they gave me a firm date of 13 March.
Some of you may be interested to know that they are taking orders now. I
placed mine and since they are more or less around the corner from where
I live the manager said he might just push one through my letter box
when it comes out. So if there is any interest (!) I will post my
thoughts on this long-anticipated book as soon as it hits the mat.
I had quite a long chat with the proprietor and he said the main reason
for the delay was because they wanted to ensure that it was really up to
date, so hopefully it will include the latest 28 Summicron M and
Tri-Elmar.
UK members of this group may be interested to know that the book is
being launched at the Olympia book fair in London on 26 March and Erwin
will be there in person.
To contact Hove books:
Phone: +44 (0)1273 495757
Matt
From ROllei Mailing List:
Richard Urmonas wrote:
It is mentioned, of course, in Wright & Wilkinson's magnificent LEN'S
COLLECTORS VADE MECUM, but the type is not given.
Marc
msmall@roanoke.infi.net
From Rollei Mailing List:
I've just bought a copy of Ray Metzker's new book of Landscapes and am
completely blown away. Beautiful stuff, all in square format. He uses an
SL66. A big part of his effect comes from the focus relationships between
the foreground and background. It's clear that the front tilt on the SL66
is a key factor. And BTW, his prints sell for about $8,000 here in New
York.
Arthur
From Rangefinder Camera List;
Greetings,
I was surprised to find that I can research camera ads from 1888 to date
on the National Geographic CD set. Just go to the search menu, click
"ads" with key word "camera".
Of course not all cameras are advertised, but it gives you an idea of
the times, and what camera makers thought the National Geo reader was
their target market. For instance, I found 116 Leica ads, and only 26
for the Zeiss Contax. And it would seem Leica outsold Contax by more
than this almost 5 to 1 ad ratio.
The 1st Leica National Geo ad in January 1929 proudly proclaims the
Leica A as the "Official Camera of the Byrd Antarctica Expedition."
you will also find the famous National Geo pics and feature articles. I
understand some people buy the CD set just for those, and not the camera
ads ... strange.. but it takes all kinds.
Stephen Gandy
From Rollei Mailing List;
Mark Bergman wrote:
That's good to know -- but, again, go to the Library of Congress
searchable web site and see for yourself how very, very, very few books on
old cameras or the history of cameras ever get catalogued. Understand
that the LC is the major depository library: publishers are supposed to
offer the LC copies of all new books. That they don't catalogue these
books means that the disdain in which these books are held by most local
libraries starts at the very top. The same is true for books on
collecting old cars, incidentally.
Marc
msmall@roanoke.infi.net
From Rollei Mailing List;
I made this offer to members of the IDCC and extend it to fellow RUG-ers
too:
A few copies of "Selecting and using Classic Cameras" are sitting on my
desk and I would be happy to mail one to any RUG member for $15, plus a
buck for postage in the US/Canada (a little more postage for overseas).
Despite the title, which sounds way too much like Ivor Matanle's classic
(the publisher picked then title, not me) this book offers, I think, a
light-hearted look at the pleasures and pitfalls we all encounter with
cameras that may be older than we are. It has a pretty good section on the
TLR, if I say so myself, made better by Nolan Woodbury's motorcycle pix.
[Ed. note: free USGovt Photo Books (dated) on line...]
Marty Magid Wrote:
The scans of these pages are now available on the RMP web site at
http://rmp.opusis.com/documents/navy/page01.html
- Wayde
From Rollei Mailing List:
Just got this in the mail today, and I have to admit I'm really pumped, as
I've been looking for something like this for years! Also, sorry Michael
if I'm stealing your thunder...I'm not sure if you planned to make a post
about this or not, so please excuse while I gloat on your behalf!
Our friend and "RUG" icon Michael Levy has written a book published by
Amherst Media (PO Box 586 Buffalo, NY) called "Selecting and Using Classic
Cameras". (ISBN # 1-58428-054-9) $17.95 in the USA, $26.95 in Canada. It's
a softcover book with 188 pages.
If your anything like me, you've surly noticed a gaping hole in the
library or at the local booksellers for books actually dealing with buying
and using classic and collectibles, as opposed to different text's that
list these items. Michael's approach is different, and it's a awesome
read! All sizes and formats are covered, from old folders to rangefinders,
TLR's (in which I'm honored to be mentioned) to 35mm SLR's and view
cameras. Tips on finding, buying, using and everything in between. A real
treat for those of use starving for this kind of information. Its well
written, reserched and produced.
My heartfelt congrats to Michael...well done!!
Nolan Woodbury
From Rollei Mailing List;
i enjoyed matanle's *Collecting and Using Classic Cameras*
but, in my opinion, the best books of this genre are the 3-volume *Camera
Collecting* set by Jason Schneider, largely taken from his column in the
old *Modern Photography*. they're wide-ranging, witty, informative and
very well-written. the only drawback is that they are now out of print,
and they draw absurd prices. (barnes and noble shows a used set at $658)
via email, i asked mr schneider why these books are out of print.
he said that he'd been approached to do a new edition, but the
publisher wanted substantial changes, and wanted
to update the current prices for all the equipment, and
that the project became too onerous.
i consider myself very lucky to have snagged a set back in the 80's
when *Modern Photography* was getting rid of their their stock.
-rei
From Nikon MF Mailing List;
1) I am not Ukrainian. I am a red, white & blue American, born and raised
and still living in one of the most fantastic areas of the United States,
Southern California's wonderful San Fernando Valley. Three of my
grandparents moved from the Ukraine (fortunately) in the early 1900's (the
remaining family ran an inn and were assassinated when the Red Army
arrived in town, unable to find accomodiations for the Red Army officers,
lined up the guests including the inn operators and shot them.)
2) Lea's
Register of 35mm SLR Cameras 1935-1981, by Rudolph Lea, c. 1981, printed
by the Sundheim Company, Inc., Philadelphia PA 19144, (correspondence
write to : Lea's Register, P.O. Box 26771, Elkins Park, PA 19117). The
book lists primary characteristics, historical firsts, notable features,
and comparative ratings (quality ratings by members of the Delaware Valley
Photographic Collectors Association). Input and contributions by Fred
Spira, Jason Schneider, Norman Rothchild, Gene Rifkind, Herbert Keppler,
etc. I purchased this book about 15 years ago from a local photographic
store. The book has pictures of many of the SLRs that were made during
the time frame, arranged in chronological order so one can follow the
evolution of SLRs of that brand and the brands are arranged
alphabetically. No ISNB number is listed. It is spiral bound and a good
reference. I have no idea what is available on it online.
--- "John Owlett" owl@postmaster.co.uk
...
From ROllei Mailing List:
you wrote:
There are many older books with formulas, often the same ones.
_Photographic Facts and Formulas_ E.J.Wall (originally) and other editiors
later. Morgan and Morgan publishers, is a good one.
Each of the photo manufacturers issued booklets of formulas. Look for
old editions of the _Kodak Reference Handbook_ which contains a booklet
titled _Processing and Formulas_ Agfa, Ansco, DuPont-Defender, and others
had similar booklets.
A very good source is _Photo-Lab-Index_ published in many editions by
Morgan and Lester and later by MOrgan and Morgan. This book has a
compilation of all manufacturer's formulas plus some additional ones.
Both Ilford and Geveart published handbooks which contain their
formulas.
_Developing_ C.I. Jacobson, Focal Books, many editions, has a collection
of formulas.
I don't know of anything current other than Anchell's book. It has the
disadvantage that many of the formulas seem to be taken from sources
several steps removed from the originals.
The most reliable formulas are Kodak's followed by Agfa/Ansco, and later
ones by Ilford. Others tend to have too much alchemy for my taste.
What sort of thing are you looking for?
----
From Rollei Mailing List:
Just as a quick personal plug. You can order any book published by Hove,
Focal Press or Silver Pixel Press from me. I'll ship anywhere in the
world and only charge you actual postage costs.
Bob
From Rollei Mailing List;
Cassandra wrote:
Well, try searching for either of the following:
Marc James Small and Charles M Barringer, The Zeiss Ikon Compendium, (also
called Barringer and Small, The Zeiss Compendium, depending on whether you
look at the cover or the title page!). Hove Collectors Books, 1995. ISBN
1 874707 24 3.
Marc James Small, Non-Leitz Leica Thread-Mount Lenses: A 39mm Diversity.
H_cklehoven, Germany: Rita Wittig, 1997. ISBN: 3-930359-47-2.
Just for starters, mind you!
Petra Kellers stocks both.
Marc
msmall@roanoke.infi.net
From Rollei Mailing List;
Everyone -- why not just try Perry Werner at PAWPRINT BOOKS.
www.pawprintbooks.com--E/mail; pawprint@cybernex.net.--He has or can get
anything you could ever want.
From Rollei Mailing List:
you wrote:
Its still in print. There is a second edition.
_The Photographic Lens_ second edition, Sidney F. Ray, 1992, The Focal
Press ISBN 0 2405 1329 0 (Soft Cover)
Ray also has a much more advanced text:
_Applied Photographic Optics_ Second edition, Sidney F. Ray, 1995, The
Focal Press ISBN 0 240 51499 8 (Soft Cover)
You should be able to get these from any larger bookdealer.
----
From: "Tom Thackrey" tomnr@creative-light.com
andermar@teleport.com (Mark Anderson) wrote:
"Edward Weston: Photographs" by Amy Conger has most of his photographs, in
chronological order, including a large number of the peppers (I believe he
recorded 38 pepper negatives.) The images are fairly small but it's the
most complete record of his work. It's interesting to compare the peppers
to each other and to the other work he was doing at the time. The book is
recently out of print, but I still see copies in bookstores on occasion. I
would try the online stores and call photo dealers who carry books. It's
published by the Center for Creative Photography.
From Russian Camera Mailing List;
I just purchased a GREAT book called "Contax To Kiev -
A Report On The Mutation", by Minoru Sasaki. It;s a
beautiful comparison of the Contax (West), Contax
Jena, and the Kiev RF cameras. While the cameras are
comparable in many aspects, Sasaki has photos of the
breakdown of each model to illustrate the many subtle
differences in manufacturing each camera. In many
cases, cameras from the same period were made using
different parts and assemblies. Really surprising
information.
Steve
[Ed. note: now you know why you can't find a copy locally - only 500
printed!]
The Japanese are serious Contax collectors, have written THE book on
Kiev/Contax and seem to be strong buyers on Ebay. Books and the
exchange of information do create more collectors and prices rise.
Seems 30-40% of the bidder on eBay who buys CCCP products are the
Japanese,but not so many serious Contax collector in my country.
Mr.Sasaki's book "Contax to Kiev" was written for serious reseachers
and collectors in the world not for ordinary collector,published only
500 copies,by the help of several researchers including me(90% Kievs
on his book were from my collection).
Revised edition of JLP's book "Made in USSR" which will be published
this year,will rise prices...
Akira
From Russian Camera Mailing List;
Parlin 44 wrote:
Sasaki, Minoru. Contax to Kiev: A Report on the Mutation. Tokyo, Japan:
Office Heliar, 2000. ISBN: 4-901241-02-8.
The book is stocked by Petra Kellers -- http://www.camerabooks.com
Marc
msmall@roanoke.infi.net
[Ed. note: a possible handy source for old camera info!]
Greetings,
I was surprised to find that I can research camera ads from 1888 to date
on the National Geographic CD set. Just go to the search menu, click
"ads" with key word "camera".
Of course not all cameras are advertised, but it gives you an idea of
the times, and what camera makers thought the National Geo reader was
their target market. For instance, I found 116 Leica ads, and only 26
for the Zeiss Contax. And it would seem Leica outsold Contax by more
than this almost 5 to 1 ad ratio.
The 1st Leica National Geo ad in January 1929 proudly proclaims the
Leica A as the "Official Camera of the Byrd Antarctica Expedition."
you will also find the famous National Geo pics and feature articles. I
understand some people buy the CD set just for those, and not the camera
ads ... strange.. but it takes all kinds.
Stephen Gandy
From Nikon Mailing List;
From: "John Owlett" owl@postmaster.co.uk
Don't throw old literature away either.
I sold my collection of Olympus brochures (some going back 25 years to the
OM1) for equivalent of US $600 recently to a specialist dealer. I wonder
what the dealer mark up will be - my guess of a value was around US $150.
Len Shepherd.
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000
Dear Mr. Monaghan,
please excuse the delay in coming back to you. The book you are speaking
of is called "Kadlubek's Lens Catalogue" and you can order it conveniently
at the following US adress: Petra Kellers/ACR Book Service, 15965 Forest
Hill Drive, Boulder Creek, CA 95006, Tel./Fax: 831-338-1350, toll free:
1-888-338-1350, E-mail: PKell1014@aol.com, Web site: www.camerabooks.com
Please give my regards to Petra Kellers who will be happy to mail you the
book promptly.
Best regards
Robert Monaghan schrieb:
From Camera Fixing Mailing List:
...
A book. The Register of 35mm Single Lens Reflex Cameras by Rudolph Lea.
Rudi tried in this book to list every 35mm SLR ever made, with photos of
most, and specifications, as well as short histories. I wrote some
material for this book. If you want a copy you can buy from my store.
Just go to www.bobshell.com and click on the link to the store and order.
Bob
From Camera Fixing Mailing List;
I obtained a copy of the english version (1996)of 'All you need..
Design and Repair of Russian cameras from Old timer Cameras in the UK
(http://www.oldtimercameras.co.uk) (o29.95). I notice that they also
list '110 Russian Cameras (from 1929 to 1984) by Maizenberg (o9.95).
I don't know whether this book contains technical details.
Peter
[Ed. note: updated link is now: http://www.oldtimercameras.com/]
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001
eBay has been cheaper than ABE, in my experience. Amazon also has used
books. New but recently-out-of-print texts can sometimes be found at
www.hamiltonbook.com and www.daedalusbooks.com/ for 20-30% of the original
price. I have dealt with both many times with complete satisfaction.
Hamilton's website says they won't ship outside the U.S.
Tom
"Ted Harris" slberfuchs@aol.com wrote
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2001
Dilbertdroid wrote:
Its "A Treasury of Model Railroad Photos" published by Kalmbach
Publishing, and features work by Dave Frary, Malcolm Furlow, John Olson
and Paul Scoles. It is a softcover book, mine has a price of $16.95 on
it.
The photography in this book is more spectacular than in the "Model
Photography" softcover, but the latter has more practical info for a
beginner.
Bob Boudreau
From Leica Topica Mailing List;
have you got the 'Phaidon 55' series of books in the US? Small, about 5"
by 6" or so, 128 pages, and each book dedicated to the work of a single
photographer. They range from very early - there's one on Julia Margaret
Cameron - to recent (about 1970s I owuld say). Best of all is the price
- GBP 4.95 per volume.
I've got 4 of them - Dorothea Lange, Eugene Atget, Andre Kertesz, and
David Goldblatt. The Lange book was especially interesting, it was
interesting to see the body of her work and not just the one or two
iconic images.
Tom Burke
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001
Just got a new Amphoto LF book "Medium and Large Format Photography" by
Roger Hicks and Frances Schultz, subtitled "Moving Beyond 35mm . It is the
greatest! I have nearly all the other LF books and this adds a lot more,
200 illustrations, all kinds of practical advice and a their critique on
most LF equipment . A hardware geeks delight and a very useful guide to
nearly everything LF. I've had it a month and keep reading it and
discovering more.
Highly recommended.
--
From Russian Camera Mailing List;
Here's the Reader's Digest version, Marc.
When Derek Grossmark decided to retire he sold Hove Foto Books, the
imprint which did all of the how-to camera books, to Ian Parker. He
retained Hove Books, publisher of the historical books. His daughter Sue
and son-in-law Ron now run Hove Books. Derek is supposedly retired, but
stays as active as ever. The accuracy of Hove Books is pretty good,
thanks largely to Dennis Laney, who acts as Editor for them.
The Parkers moved Hove Foto Books to the island of Jersey, where they
live. Their distributor was Chris Coleman, who had formerly been Derek's
distributor and was also the UK Rollei distributor at one time. Chris's
company is Newpro Ltd.
Last year, as most of us who know him predicted, Ian Parker got bored with
being a book publisher and his son Andrew was not really interested
either, preferring the family business of chocolate making. So the
Parkers sold the company to Chris Coleman. Chris continues the operation
but really had no control over the volumes published during the Parker
regime.
Ian Parker was convinced that a book could be published from a computer
translation of a foreign language text. This is probably what was done
with the Princelle book (which I have not seen).
Bob
From Rollei Mailing List;
Thomas A. Frank wrote:
So far, the major books by Claus Prochnow are:
Prochnow, Claus. Rollei Report 1: Franke & Heidecke Die ersten 25 Jahre.
Stuttgart, Germany: Lindemanns Verlag, 1993. ISBN: 3-89506-105-0.
Prochnow, Claus. Rollei Report 2: Rollei-Werke Rollfilmkameras 1946 bis
1981. Stuttgart, Germany: Lindemanns Verlag, 1995. ISBN:
3-89506-118-2.
Prochnow, Claus. Rollei Report 3: Rollei-Werke Rollei Fototechnic 1960
bis
1995. Stuttgart, Germany: Lindemanns Verlag, 1995. ISBN:
3-89506-141-7.
Prochnow, Claus. Rollei Report 4: Rollei-werke rollei Fototechnic 1958
bis
1998. Stuttgart, Germany: Lindemanns Verlag, 1997. ISBN:
3-89506-170-0.
Prochnow, Claus. Rollei Report 5: Rolleiflex SLX und 6000 Report.
Stuttgart, Germany: Lindemanns Verlag, 2000. ISBN: 3-89506-183-2.
Prochnow, Claus. Rollei Technical Report. Stuttgart, Germany: Lindemanns
Verlag, 1996. ISBN: 3-89506-156-5.
Prochnow, Claus. Rollei 35, Eine Kamera-Geschichte. Stuttgart, Germany:
Lindemann's Verlag, 1998. ISBN: 3-930292-10-6
The TLR's are covered in Reports 1, 2, and 4 and the Technical Report.
These should be available from Petra Keller at http://www.camerabooks.com
in the US or from Lindemann's in Germany.
Marc From: chnr@aol.com (ChNR)
I recently picked up a copy of "Hollywood Portraits" by Roger Hicks and From: dickburk@ix.netcom.com (Richard Knoppow) ..... I think the underexpose and overdevlop part is simply myth. That From: "The Fixer Man" <kenburns@twave.net> Another book that might be useful is Fred Archer's "Fred Archer on From Leica Topica Mailing List: Hi Fr.C, From: bhilton665@aol.com (BHilton665) >From: Clausen mdclausen@skyenet.net A couple of his other books might be of special interest though ... "John
Minolta Mailing List:
Gary Martens
From russian camera mailing list:
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002
From: Marc James Small msmall@roanoke.infi.net
Subject: Russar
Roman J. Rohleder wrote:
>no M39-lenses but the Russar anymore !! Is
>it named after "M.M.Rusinov"? )
The original Russar was a large format lens designed by Rusinov. It was
quite the rage in Europe in its day. See Wright and Wilkinson's
magisterial LENS COLLECTOR'S VADE MECUM CD-Rom for a nice discussion.
Marc
msmall@roanoke.infi.net
From: camartsmag@aol.com (CamArtsMag)
Newsgroups: rec.photo.equipment.large-format
Date: 04 Feb 2002
Subject: Re: Landscape/Nature photography and camera movements
Subject: Landscape/Nature photography and camera movements
From: rbellant@yorku.ca (Rocco Bellantoni)
Date: 2/4/02
I just bought a LF field camera and will purchase the lens shortly.
But before I do that, I would like to query LF landscape/nature
photographers to find out what camera movements are typically used and
which are rarely used so that I may determine the amount of coverage I
will require for my lens. My first lens pruchase will be a shorter
lens, something in the 90 - 125 range, possibly even a 135.
I would recommend one of the following books
Large Format Nature Photography by Jack Dykinga
Using the View Camera that I wrote for Amphoto
both are available from Amazon.Com
Front and rear tilt are the most commonly used movements. They are not used th
change the depth of field but are used to rotate the plane of sharp focus to
more closely align with the plane of the subject. For this purpose they are
interchangeable however wit thhe rear tilt you will change the shape(s) of
things and size relationships between objects in different parts of the image
area.
steve simmons
viewcamera magazine
From Rangefinder Mailing List:
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002
From: Stephen Gandy leicanikon@earthlink.net
Subject: OT: New Exakta Book
OK, this is OT for most of my lists, BUT this is a quality limited
edition camera book, so time of of the essence.
What's an Exakta you ask ? the 1st 35mm SLR marked in 1936. Until the
mid 50's Exaktas were clearly leader in 35 SLR popularity. Contrary to
some sources, new research has shown the Exakta was marketed before the
early Russian SLR.
Yesterday I bought a copy of the 1st new Exakta book in English in about
20 years, "Exakta Obscurities" by Gary Cullen and Klaus Rademaker. The
book concentrates on unusual and almost always undocumented Exaktas,
Exakta lenses, and Exakta accessories. It is well written and profusely
illustrated. Even if you are a long time Exakta user or collector,
there is much in this book you have never seen before.
Privately printed, only 100 hard bound and 400 soft bounds books were
printed, so buy it before they are sold out !
Price is US$50 soft and US$70 hard cover.
Air mail to the US: US$6.00, surface rate $4.50
Air mail overseas: US$13.00, surface rate $8.00
There's no tax or duty for US purchases from Canada. Payments in
international money order or cashier check.
The address for payments:
Gary Cullen
PO Box 1035
Delta, British Columbia
V4M 3T2
Canada
Gary's email is gcullen@dccnet.com
Stephen
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002
From: Karoline Cullen/Gary Cullen kgcullen@dccnet.com
To: rmonagha@post.cis.smu.edu
Subject: New Exakta Collectors Book
90% new, never before published material!
Hello
The new Exakta collectors book "Exakta Obscurities" by Gary Cullen and Klaus
Rademaker is now available to distributors at US$32.50. Suggested retail is $50.00
Only 500 were printed and over 200 have now been sold so please don't wait
too long to order.
For detailed information and samples from each chapter please check my web
site: http://ghiweb.com/exakta/
You can contact me directly at kgcullen@dccnet.com for ordering information.
Thank you,
Gary Cullen
PO Box 1035
Delta, B.C.
V4M 3T2
Canada
Tel: 604 943 8063 (Pacific time)
From: "Tony Spadaro" tspadaro@ncmaps.rr.com
Newsgroups: rec.photo.equipment.35mm,uk.rec.photo.misc
Subject: Re: What's your Photo book library ?
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002
People would accuse me of hogging all the bandwidth. There is a list of
some of the more essential books on technique and composition at my website.
I think I actually own most but a couple might be library and my collection
does have losses as well as gains - I tend to give books to students, and
sometimes I don't have another copy.
The Book list is at:
http://home.nc.rr.com/tspadaro/
The Camera-ist's Manifesto
a Radical approach to photography.
A few pictures are available at
http://www.homeusers.prestel.co.uk/magor/tony
"Tony Parkinson" arparkinson@btinternet.com wrote
> I was just, finally sorting out all my books from the boxes they've
> been in since I recently moved home and it started me wondering what
> Photography books everyone else had in the bookcase ? (since it's a
> lot more on topic than most of the recent posts on these two NGs)
>
> My collection is :-
>
>
> Photographing Animals In the Wild (Andy Rouse)
> Animal Tales (Andy Rouse)
> The Wildlife Trusts Nature Photographer's Handbook (Ian Beames)
> The Art Of Nature Photography (Niall Benvie)
> The New Complete Guide To Wildlife Photography (Joe McDonald)
> Wildlife Photographer's Field Manual (Joe McDonald)
> The Making Of Landscape Photographs (Charlie Waite)
> National Geographic Photographer's Field Guide (Peter Burian & Robert
> Caputo)
> Travel Photography (Richard I'Anson)
> Photosecrets : San Francisco & Northern California (Andrew Hudson)
> Photosecrets : San Diego (Andrew Hudson)
From: Bill Jameson bjameson@mail.med.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: rec.photo.equipment.35mm,uk.rec.photo.misc
Subject: Re: What's your Photo book library ?
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002
Tony Parkinson wrote:
>
> I was just, finally sorting out all my books from the boxes they've
> been in since I recently moved home and it started me wondering what
> Photography books everyone else had in the bookcase ? (since it's a
> lot more on topic than most of the recent posts on these two NGs)
...
A couple of John Shaw's nature/macro photography books, a couple of Byran
Peterson's (exposure, people photography), couple of Kodak's (flash,
existing light photography), a couple of old editions of Photography by
Barbara London & John Upton picked up cheaply, ditto for John Hedgcoe and
Freeman Patterson books as well as some Andreas Feininger. Also my 3rd set
of almost complete Time-Life Library of Photography books from the 1970's.
Mostly, the books I search for and work at acquiring now are works by
individual photographers:
Walker Evans, The Hungry Eye
Walker Evans at Work
Weegee's World
Diane Arbus An aperture Monograph
Rodchenko's Photographs
Dream Street: W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh Project 1955-1958
The New York School: Photographs, 1936-1963: Photographs, 1936-1963 by Jane
Livingston
Lisa Model (Phaidon 55)
etc. etc.
Bill Jameson
From: The Reids clevermick@fellwalk.co.uk
Newsgroups: rec.photo.equipment.35mm,uk.rec.photo.misc
Subject: Re: What's your Photo book library ?
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002
Following up to "Tony Parkinson" arparkinson@btinternet.com
I think Landscape Photography - The Art and Technique of Eight modern
Masters is my favourite.
Then some Japanese imports mainly by Shinzo Maeda
Iceland The Exotic North, Schmidt
Best of Freinds (of monochrome)
examples of peoples work far outweigh "technical" books, but I do have
Photographing Places and Making of Landscape photographs.
--
Mike Reid
UK snaps "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk/pict052.htm"
Spain snaps "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk/spainpic.htm"
From: Paul Chefurka paul@chefurka.com
Newsgroups: rec.photo.equipment.35mm
Subject: Re: What's your Photo book library ?
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002
The top runner in my library is "Inferno" by James Natchwey. It's the most
powerful book of photos I've ever seen.
Tied for second place are:
"Sleeping With Ghosts" by Don McCullin
"In Times of War and Peace" by David and Peter Turnley
"Requiem" edited by Horst Faas and Tim Page
"Not Fade Away" by Jim Marshall.
There are about thirty more "below the fold".
Tied for last place are a couple of books by Freeman Patterson and a book
of Karsh portraits >:-P
FWIW, I have no books on technique.
Paul
From: "Bob Fowler" saxman@superlink.net
Newsgroups: rec.photo.equipment.35mm,uk.rec.photo.misc
Subject: Re: What's your Photo book library ?
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002
I have far too many to list (or to remember off the top of my head), but I
can recommend a great book that should be required reading for anyone doing
portraiture... It's not specifically a book on photography though... "Face
Forward" by Kevyn Aucoin. Ok, so it's about doing makeup, but I've seen way
too many portraits of both women AND men where a better makeup job would
have made a world of difference. He also has 2 other books, "Making Faces"
and "The Art of Makeup" that should be on the book shelf of every portrait
photographer.
Bob Fowler
saxman@superlink.net
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002
From: Argusman doregan@attglobal.net
Newsgroups: rec.photo.equipment.35mm
Subject: Re: Mega Leaps
Folks, try half.com, an Ebay subsidiary. Books ship at the media mail
rate and you buy what is there. No bidding - just pay what is asked,
which is usually quite low. You can also arrange to be notified when a
new item is posted for sale. Not as good as rummaging through a book
store, but not bad if you are looking for a specific title.
Dennis
...
from chinese camera mailing list:
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001
From: "Per Backman" pbackman@algonet.se
Subject: Cameras of China o2.99 at Jessops
Douglas St. Denny, Cameras of the Peoples Republic of China, (1989), Jessops is
now selling it for o2.99.
http://www.jessops.com/classic/
http://www.jessops.com/retail/index.cfm
It is worth o2.99 anyway.
Per B.
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002
To: russiancamera-user@beststuff.com
From: Marc James Small msmall@infi.net
Subject: Re: [Russiancamera] Super Leica fake book! ; ))
Tim wrote:
>I just received a copy of 300 Leica copies by Pont/Princelle isbn
>2-906840-03-3
Also worthy of note is "HPR" (Hans P Rajner), LEICA COPIES, a rather more
scholarly book.
Marc
msmall@infi.net
From: beasleyglb@mindspring.com (Gary Beasley)
Newsgroups: rec.photo.equipment.large-format
Subject: Re: LF Lens image circle size
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002
msherck@aol.comimagine (Msherck) wrote:
>Is there a resource listing the image circles from lots of new and older lenses
>so that those of us who are in the used lens market can easily determine
>whether a particular lens will meet our needs? Alternatively, are image
>circles measured or calculated, and if calculated, how?
>
>Any information anyone can give on the subject of determining the image circle
>of LF lenses would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
>
>Mike
>
There is a manual called "Large Format Optical Reference Manual" by
J.L. "Woody" Wooden that fits your description.
Published by Data Obscura Press
!700 Cedar Bluffs Way
Las Vegas, NV 89128
(702) 360-8718
from russian camera mailing list
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002
From: "Robert Chiasson" rchiasson@sprint.ca
Subject: Camera Craftsman Microfiled
Comrades,
I should point out that the house magazine of the former National Camera
Repair School, "The Camera Craftsman" was microfilmed by University
Microfilms International. I doubt many libraries have a copy sitting on
the shelf, and I don't know if it's still available, but the matter should
be investigated. The university libraries seem to have more funds for such
a purchase if a faculty or staff member requests it.
------
Robert
From: cjmorgan59@aol.com (CJMorgan59)
Newsgroups: rec.photo.equipment.35mm
Date: 19 May 2002
Subject: Re: What are you reading????
Mikey vwnttl@yahoo.com wrote:
>I haven't read any good books on photography. I guess my feeling towards
>this is that it's all subjective. What the author may find
>useful/appealing, I may not.
Perhaps. But in the spirit of "fools seldom differ and great minds think
alike", I have observed that the better photographers have a certain amount of
commonality which is worth reading about (if not altogether emulating) and that
the very best of what they have to say seems to transcend time and whatever
technological advances are occuring. Which is to say, their attitudes are as
applicable today as when they wrote them years ago.
To that end, one book I have found myself going back to time and again has been
"Edward Weston On Photography." While some things this master has said are now
dated, other parts of his commentaries are as applicable today as when he wrote
them years ago. And if a man says something (on the subject of photography)
more than half a century ago and it's still applicable today, then that's
something worth reading and pondering.
CJ
[Ed. note: a well deserved plug for Erwin Puts book on Leica lenses...]
From Leica Topica Mailing list:
Date: Mon, 13 May 2002
From: Jim Brick jim@brick.org
Subject: RE: Erwin's book
Tom Burke wrote:
>Erwin's book in fact contains a report on all Leica lenses ever made, I
>believe, from the very first Elmax f3.5 fixed lenses to the very latest
>(as at the end of last year). But that's only half of it. The first
>section of the book (amounting to about 100 of the total 230 or so
>pages) contains a 'historical and evolutionary perspective on the
>development of Leica lenses'; an introduction to 'the theory and
>practice of optical design', and and a section on Image Evaluation.
>
>{snip}
>But as I say, I like it.
>
>Tom Burke
Ditto!!!
Jim
From camera makers mailing list:
Date: Mon, 27 May 2002
From: fontpro fontpro@usa.net
Subject: [Cameramakers] PRIMATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY BOOK and building your own lenes
Hello!
I bought the book "Primitive Photography : A Guide to Making Cameras,
Lenses, and Calotypes"
by Alan Greene
Very nice book going into detail on building a large format camera for
Calotype and wet plate photography. i'm building an 8x10 film holder
right now.
I'm mainly interested in making my own lens for this camera, which this
book discusses. Unfortunately, I'm not clear on what lenses (elements) I
need to buy to build this lens?
My intent is for "Landscape" photography. I'm guessing 300mm. The
objective is not to get laser sharp pictures. I'm going for that ols look
"holga" like.
Anyone with this book understand how I should purchase the lenses?
The book has nice pictures showing how to cut PVC pipe to mke the barrel
and settings for the lenses.
Thanks!
Mac
[Ed. note: high praise which I second... ;-) ]
From leica topica mailing list:
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002
From: Jim Brick jim@brick.org
Subject: Re: Restricting myself
Freeman Patterson is the ultimate in this regard. His books are
inspirations. There is an article about him this month, in, of all places,
Shutterbug.
Coming a close second is Godfrey DiGiorgi.
Jim
From: ralf@free-photons.de (Ralf R. Radermacher)
Newsgroups: rec.photo.equipment.medium-format
Subject: Re: Weird Question... Does anybody have any experience shooting medium format from the air?
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002
Sherman sherman-remove_this@dunnam.net wrote:
> There is a book of aerial photographs that I believe is called 'America From
> 500 Feet' or something like that.
On a related note, the photographs in this year's book by Reporters
without Borders (Reporters sans FrontiSres) have been contributed by
Yann Artus-Bertrand. Some really breath-taking shots, in there.
Great value for a mere 6 Euros and it serves a good cause, at the same
time. I understand it's also available overseas as it says "10,50 $ CAN"
on the cover of my French version. Ask your newsagent or visit their
website:
http://www.rsf.org
Ralf
--
Ralf R. Radermacher
From rollei mailing list:
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002
From: Tim Ellestad ellestad@mailbag.com
Subject: Re: [Rollei] Re: "The SL66 Way"
Hadley Chamberlain - www.hecphoto.com - was selling copies with publisher
approval. He may still have some.
Tim Ellestad
-----Original Message-----
From: Olivia Hibel olivia@infi.net
Date: Friday, August 02, 2002
Subject: [Rollei] Re: "The SL66 Way"
>Right now, there is only one copy listed for sale online, by an
>internet seller. Price: $500.
>
>There must be more copies out there, but not publically offered online.
>
>Olivia
>who is writing an article about buying books online and off.
From rollei mailing list:
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002
From: Dan Kalish kaliushkin@worldnet.att.net
Subject: [Rollei] The Rollei SL66 Way
Rolleiclub.com often sells this book in CD-ROM/.adf format.
For the version I got in April, there is an error on page 251, which should
contain pages 496 and 497 of the book. Instead, it contains a duplicate of
pages 486 and 487.
I pointed this error out to Mark and he corrected later copies.
The correct pages 496 and 497 can be downloaded from the web site at:
http://sl66.com/manual/496.jpg, but that format is not adequate for getting
the whole page.
Would some kind RUG soul send me those two pages in hardcopy? I'll furnish
my address when I hear from you.
TIA
From hasselblad mailing list:
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002
From: Mark Kronquist mak@teleport.com
Subject: Re: [HUG] Re: hasselblad V1 #1622
HCP Historical Camera Press from Spokane Washington had a softcover book on
collecting and using Hasselblad 1000F 1600F and SWA Cameras and some bits
about the Ross stuff as well.
I thumbed through a copy (not for sale) at Blue Moon s Library
Anyone know of a source for more copies of the book?
Mark
> With reference to MF SLRs pre-Hasselblad, take a look at Ivor Matanle's
> "Collecting and Using Classic SLRs," published by Thames and Hudson, 1996.
From leica mailing list:
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002
From: Darrell Jennings darrell_jennings@yahoo.com
Subject: [Leica] Lenswork article on digital photography
We've often gotten into debates on digital vs. film,
wet vs. digital darkrooms, the validity of digital as
a photograph, and the impact of altering reality in
the digital image. The best article I have seen on
this subject is by the editor of Lenswork Magazine in
this months issue. If you don't subscribe, you can go
to www.lenswork.com and pull down a PDF file of this
months issue. The article starts on page 7 of that
file. DJ
from rangefinder mailing list:
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002
From: Marc James Small msmall@infi.net
Subject: Re: [RF List] Russian lens books?
Andrew Amundsen wrote:
>
>Is there a good book on the subject of Russian Contax and LTM lenses
>that also would describe the best performers and how to identify them?
There are a number of good books including my own NON-LEITZ LEICA
THREAD-MOUNT LENSES. The most authoritative book on Soviet/Post-Soviet
(SPS) gear is Princelle's MADE IN USSR but await the new English
translation due out in several months -- the first edition is, well,
translated into rather challenging English. The late Isaak Maizenberg's
books are also quite worthy if you can find them -- I believe only his book
on SPS camera maintenance is still available.
Those in the US might wish to check out http://www.camerabooks.com/ while
those in Europe might find Andrews Camera in the UK a good source for these
books.
Marc
msmall@infi.net
from rangefinder mailing list:
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002
From: "Andrew Amundsen" andy@tcinternet.net
Subject: Re: [RF List] Russian lens books?
I was looking at the links on the Fedka.com site and found this link:
http://home.planet.nl/%7Eucklomp/books/index.htm list of books also!
Thought I'd share, Andrew
From zeiss interest group mailing list:
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002
From: Arthurwg@aol.com
Subject: Re: THE ZEISS COMPENDIUM: A NECESSARY READ!
Does the Zeiss Compendium include info on large format lenses? The B&L;
Protars? Thanks. Arthur
From zeiss interest group mailing list:
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002
From: Marc James Small msmall@infi.net
Subject: Re: THE ZEISS COMPENDIUM: A NECESSARY READ!
you wrote:
>Does the Zeiss Compendium include info on large format lenses? The B&L;
>Protars? Thanks. Arthur
No. What you need is a copy of ZEISS LENSES: THE EAGLE EYE OF YOUR
CAMERA, a reprint of the original 1937 Zeiss pamphlet, available through
the Zeiss Historica Society.
Marc
msmall@infi.net
[Ed. note: long sold by now, but ad is posted here for info on typical lens book topics..]
From: Rudy Garcia rudyg@jps.net
Newsgroups: rec.photo.marketplace,rec.photo.marketplace.35mm
Subject: FS: Photographic Optics Book
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002
Hi,
I am selling a book titled "Photographic Optics" by Allen R. Greenleaf.
This is a hardbound book 214 pages.
This is an excellent book for someone trying to get a better
understanding of how lenses work. Chapter headings:
General Principles
Elementary Lens Theory
The Theory of Stops
Resolving Power
Aberrations of Lenses
Intensity and Distribution of Light in the Image Plane
Optical Glass
Image Formation by a Small Aperture
Astigmatic Lenses
Anastigmatic Lenses
Choosing and Testing a Lens
Focusing
Shutters
Camera Accessories (supplementary lenses, filter,...)
Estimation of Exposure
Perspective
Printing
Slide Projectore
Stereoscopy
Bibliography
Appendix
Index
The chapter on Anastigmat lenses has many cross-sections of lenses such
as, Protar, Tessar, Sonnar, etc., together with their optical
prescriptions.
$20 plus shipping CONUS.
--
Rudy Garcia
from leica mailing list:
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002
From: Leica Camera Newsletter leica-news@nova.de
Subject: [Leica] Leica Newsletter, 09/29/02: Leica World News, Handbook, New book
Dear Leica friends,
Today we would like to present our newest products to you a closer glance:
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__New: Handbook of the Leica System 2002/2003
__New book: Positionen der
Markenkultur/Views of Brand Culture: Leica
__Impressions of photokina 2002
__New: Leica World News
Leica World News is a supplement to the multiple award winning customer
magazine Leica World. Printed in newsletter format, the new magazine will be
issued twice a year in future, in spring and in the fall, and will be available
free of charge from photo stores. Leica World News focuses on news in the world
of Leica, while including a wealth of practical information and useful tips.
The first issue will feature all new Leica products shown at photokina 2002.
The current issue is available as PDF document at:
http://www.leica-camera.com/kultur/leicaworld/news/index_e.html
__New: Handbook of the Leica System 2002/2003
Leica Camera AG, Solms is issuing a completely revised edition of its Handbook
of the Leica System for photokina 2002. The handy work of reference provides
details of current Leica products for photography, observation and projection,
plus information on suitable accessories to complete each Leica outfit.
Well-structured tables allow direct comparison of relevant technical data of
all products in the Leica range. The updated handbook has been published in
German and English.
Further information on the Handbook of the Leica System 2002/2003:
http://www.leica-camera.com/unternehmen/presse/data/02971/index_e.html
__New book: Positionen der
Markenkultur/Views of Brand Culture: Leica
The history of Leica Camera AG including the invention and development of Leica
rangefinder and SLR cameras is the main subject of the new book Views of Brand
Culture: Leica by Volker Albus und Achim Heine. The two authors of this series
of books portray the history and image of selected companies. Amongst other
things, the book about the Leica brand deals with the significance of the Leica
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design of Leica M and Leica R cameras.
Further information on the book Views of Brand Culture: Leica:
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__Impressions of photokina 2002
Daily impressions of photokina 2002 await you at:
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Seeing you soon at the photokina or on the internet!
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From zeiss interest group mailing list:
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002
From: "John Keesing" jkees@bigpond.com
Subject: Re: 50mm f1.5 Sonnar questions
To all Contax collectors,
Most of the questions asked about Contax Rangefinder lenses are answered in
my book "Contax Rangefinder Lenses 1932-1962".
This book can be purchased from the author for US$25 including air mail
postage to your front door.
John Keesing
Contax Rangefinder Collector
Author:" Contax Rangefinder Lenses 1932-1962"
Melbourne, Australia
jkees@bigpond.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Top" top_easy@yahoo.com
To: "Z-ICG" zicg@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, 30 September 2002 3:35
Subject: [ZICG] 50mm f1.5 Sonnar questions
> Recently aquired a Contax II (C-10105. 1937?) mounting
> a 50mm f1.5 Sonnar (1909010). Were these lenses ever
> made in black for the Conrax I? When did production
> start (year, serial#).
>
> Thanks
> Mark P
[Ed. note: a bit of Leica history just coming to light on WWII history of Leitz...]
From http://www.jsonline.com/onwisconsin/arts/oct02/86006.asp
Why has no one told this story until now? According to the late Norman Lipton, a freelance writer and editor,
the Leitz family wanted no publicity for its heroic efforts.
Only after the last member of the Leitz family was dead did the "Leica Freedom Train" finally come to light.
It is now the subject of a book, "The Greatest Invention of the Leitz Family: The Leica Freedom Train," by
Frank Dabba Smith, a California-born rabbi currently living in England.
The book ($5 plus postage) is available from the American Photographic Historical Society, 1150 Avenue
of the Americas, New York, NY 10036.
I recommend it.
Appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Oct. 9, 2002
From: "Richard Knoppow" dickburk@ix.netcom.com
Newsgroups: rec.photo.equipment.large-format
Subject: Re: B&J; 5x7 Special 7.5" lens ??
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002
"Marv Soloff" msoloff@worldnet.att.net wrote
> Richard Knoppow wrote:
> >
> > "Gary Beasley" beasleyglb@mindspring.com wrote
> > > "Richard Knoppow" dickburk@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> > > > FWIW, the Rapid-Rectilinear is a famous lens. It is a
> > > >symmetrical lens with two cemented elements in each cell.
> > > >Symmetry is important because a symmetrical lens is
> > > >automatically corrected for coma, lateral color, and
> > > >distortion. Coma is a fault similar to spherical
> > aberration
> > > >except it exists off axis and gets worse the further off
> > > >axis you get. It looks like a tear-drop shaped smearing of
> > > >points. The R-R type lens was one of the first reasonably
> > > >fast and reasonably good performing lenses to become
> > > >available.
> > > {snip}
> > > Very cool bit of history there. Where did you find it?
> > > You could do a regular column on things like this in a
> > good photo
> > > magazine. Ever had any offers? I like your style.
> > Thank you. It comes from several sources. If you are
> > interested in lens history a good place to start is a book
> > by Rudolf Kingslake. Kingslake was, among other things, the
> > head of Kodak's lens department from about 1938 until 1961.
> > During this time Kodak made some of the finest lenses made
> > anywhere.
> > He also taught at the University of Rochester for many
> > years. He is a lucid writer, anything he wrote is worth
> > reading.
> > _A History of the Photographic Lens_ Rudolf Kingslake,
> > (1989) San Diego, The Academic Press ISBN 0-12-408640-3
> > I think this is out of print now but its worth checking.
> > Larger libraries should have it or be able to get it on of
> > optical pioneers.
> >
> > --
> >
> > ---
> > Richard Knoppow
> > Los Angeles, CA, USA
> > dickburk@ix.netcom.com
>
> You should also have the CEK Mees volume on Photography, Bell, London,
> 1936 - just to round it out.
>
> Regards,
>
> Marv
I would love to have one. Its not exactly the kind of
thing you can run over to Border's and buy:-)
Unfortunately, most of the photography books I am looking
for are genuine collector's items, very hard to find and
mostly too rich for my blood.
I am still kicking myself for passing up a copy of T.
Thorn Baker's book on emulsion making a few years ago. $5.00
at shop selling "junk" books from a chain of used book
stores. At the time I had no idea what it was :-(
I did, however, have sense enough to buy lots of other
books there.
---
Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@ix.netcom.com
From: "Daniel G" danielgrenier@rogers.com
Newsgroups: rec.photo.equipment.large-format
Subject: Re: Newsletter like Fred Picker's
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002
What you want then is the newsletter now put out by Fine Art Photo
Supply out of Rochester.
It looks like Picker's in every way - same size, font, style, down to
the three hole punches even!!! Feels like Deja Vu big time but if
that's what you miss then that's where you need to go. The gentleman at
Fine Art Photo Supply is a (overly?) serious fan of Picker's and it
really shows. He even sells stuff a la Zone VI's early days to boot.
Feels like you're back in the early 80s in Newfane. Anyhow, check this
out for more info. http://www.fineartphotosupply.com/
Daniel G.
"IdahoSpud" spud@idaho.com wrote
Just wondering if anyone has found a newsletter like the Fred Picker
Zone VI newsletters. Kinda miss them...and him.
--the IdahoSpud
From: reynolds@panix.com (Brian Reynolds)
Newsgroups: rec.photo.equipment.large-format
Subject: Re: Book
Date: 21 Oct 2002
Bean112 davico@dellepro.com wrote:
>I am trying to find Jon Greostad's book on how to build your own Large
>Format Camera. His Website isn't comming up and Amazon doesn't list the
>book. I would appreciate any help finding it. Ian
Jon Grepstad's web page is at URL:http://home.online.no/~gjon/. His
book is self-published and self-distributed, so you are unlikely to
find it at Amazon. The book does have an ISBN (82-993938-1-7), but I
didn't find it using the ISBN searches at Amazon, Barnes & Noble or
From: wa6tty@aol.comNoJunk (Ken Wyatt)
Newsgroups: rec.photo.technique.misc
Date: 26 Oct 2002
Subject: Re: Good Book on Exposure
The K1000 does not have spotmetering.
Here's a few books on exposure I've found to be useful.
The Photographer's Guide to Exposure, by Jack Neubart (ISBN 0-8174-5424-1).
The Hand Exposure Meter Book, by Silverman, Zuckerman, and Shell (ISBN
0-9671523-0-5).
and for flash exposure, Kodak's Electronic Flash, Jack Neubart (ISBN
0-87985-772-2).
Hope this helps, Ken
Kenneth Wyatt Nature Photography
Woodland Park, CO
http://www.wyattphoto.com
From: "Sean" sdemerchREMOVE@hotmail.com
Newsgroups: rec.photo.technique.misc
Subject: Re: Good Book on Exposure
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~daf/bookpages/pdf/chap01-final.pdf
does not cover exposure, but it does go over the basics of
optics. This should help you understander aperature and how
the lights path through the lens interrelates with the recorded
image.
hope this helps,
Sean
From nikon MF mailing list:
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002
From: Randy Holst mrvolvo@cableone.net
Subject: Re: Re: Braczo's bible......
Richard Cochran wrote:
>
> I browsed through the book in the local bookstore for a few
> minutes last week. In ten minutes, I noticed three or four
> obvious errors in photo captions....
> ...Those errors didn't make me feel very confident about the rest
> of the technical details...
I've got around 20+ books on the Nikon system, including both of
Braczko's books, and they ALL contain errors. Even the full line
catalogs published by Nikon are sprinkled with errors, some of them
pretty obvious. Having several different references for the same
information proves useful in clearing up discrepancies.
It seems that whenever a manifest of details on a complex subject is
compiled by humans, the result is sure to contain some boo-boos.
Perhaps they do this on purpose so those enthusiasts among us who are
really anal about such details can triumphantly proclaim that we found
another mistake.
> If I could trust that Brazco's book was properly proofread,
> I'd buy it right away.
BTW, his name is spelled: "Braczko".
Randy Holst
Boise, Idaho
From nikon MF mailing list:
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002
From: "Denis Graham" denis@kcnet.com
Subject: Re: Shooting outdoor Christmas Lights
I heard Silver Pixel Press is out or going out of business, so I
wouldn't trust ordering anything from their website. These books can
also be found at http://www.amazon.com
Denis
--- In NikonMF@y..., Bob Fowler crazybob2525@y... wrote:
> I picked up the Pocket Photoguide, 4th edition (2001
> printing) at my local Borders book store a couple of
> weeks ago as well as the full size guide. All of the
> Kodak books are available through the publisher at
> http://www.silverpixelpress.com
From Nikon MF Mailing List:
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002
From: Rick Housh rick@housh.net
Subject: Re: Re: Shooting outdoor Christmas Lights
Bob Fowler wrote:
>Hmmm... Where did you hear that from? Silver Pixel
>Press is a division of Tiffen. From the info on their
>website, they have a publication deal with the Great
>Yellow Father to publish all of their books. If it's
>true that Silver Pixel Press is on the skids, one has
>to wonder where Kodak will go for publishing.
Thom Hogan, whose books are published by Silver Pixel, (up to the D1 Guide,
which was electronically published by himself) said they were having some
sort of difficulty, when responding to a question in the NikonAF group
about why his Nikon Flash Guide was so late.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NikonAF/message/277, and here in NikonMF,
just over a month ago, Thom referred to "SPP" as "going down the tubes".
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NikonMF/message/27357
- Rick Housh -
From: TP tp@noemailthanks.com
Newsgroups: rec.photo.equipment.35mm,uk.rec.photo.misc
Subject: Re: Independent Pro Lenses
Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2002
glhansen@steel.ucs.indiana.edu (Gregory L. Hansen) wrote:
>Your books must be a lot more comprehensive than the ones I've seen.
No, I just made a comprehensive effort to read them,
and learned the lessons by putting them into practice.
Of course I did not have the luxury of being able to
post damnfool questions to a Usenet newsgroup and get
any number of totally different and conflicting answers.
Maybe, if Usenet had been available in the 1970s, there
would have been fewer competent amateur photographers.
As it is, there were a very high proportion, far higher
than there are today.
>I think I'll ask another question.
LOL!!
>Can you recommend a title?
I can recommend books that suit me, whether they will suit
you is a completely different question.
There are many books for beginners that take a lightweight
approach to learning technique and I would advise strongly
against buying these. Personally, I prefer books that
challenge me to learn the basic principles of photography.
I would not recommend anything by John Hedgecoe or Michael
Freeman. Their books fall firmly into the first category.
However, I would strongly recommend "Basic Photography" by
Michael Langford. I would also recommend anything that is
co-written by the excellent Roger Hicks and his partner.
All these are UK authors but their books are easily
available in the USA from Barnes and Noble or Amazon.
Langford's books are basically technical text books and are
standard on most photography courses in the UK. They make
sober reading but are full of reliable information.
Roger Hicks is a real character and his books are extremely
popular in the USA, maybe for that reason. Roger has a
great love of photography and enthuses his readers. I like
his style but feel that I get more out of Langford's books,
which are also useful for reference when at work.
I suggest that you try borrowing a copy of each's work,
maybe from your University library, and see whose style
suits you best.
Others will disagree. Listen to them carefully!
HTH.
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002
Subject: Re: [Russiancamera] Re: Princelle book--new edition
From: Bob Shell bob@bobshell.com
To: russiancamera-user@beststuff.com
Marc James Small wrote:
> My OWN publisher is the OTHER Hove, the one still based on the blessed
> land
> of England ..
Actually, Marc, both are now based in England. Chris Coleman of Newpro
Distributors bought the other Hove Foto Books from the Parkers on Jersey
last year.
Bob
From russian camera mailing list:
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002
Subject: Re: [Russiancamera] Re: Princelle book--new edition
From: Wayne Cornell cwcornell@caxtonpress.com
The greatest problem with a book of this sort is that it is targeted to a
small specific audience (probably 5,000 copies at best over a period of
several years) which means larger publishers aren't interested. That also
makes it difficult to get a publisher to reprint.
Don't take Amazon as Gospel on book status. I work for a publisher and they
have several of our books listed with six to eight weeks delivery even
though we can ship tomorrow. This happens a lot with specialized books
because they don't want to stock small numbers or apparently don't think the
demand is great enough to mean much in sales.
The big booksellers and Amazon focus on titles that move quickly and in
large numbers. This makes it very difficult for small niche publishers or
self-publishers to break into the mainstream market.
...
From hasselblad mailing list:
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003
From: Bernard Ferster b.ferster@worldnet.att.net
Subject: [HUG] Henry's new book
Henry wrote a new book, "The Professional Source Book for Photo, Vidio,
Cline & Theatrical", running over 800 pages and published by his firm, B+H.
In addition to a catalogue of just about every form of lighting except the
wax candle, there is an introduction to the subject of lighting that begins
with a chapter called "What Is Light", that even includes technical
definitions of candela and lux, and a brief review of the rules of light
behavior that a good studio worker will need to know. Some 700 pages latter
on, past sections on strobes, continuous lighting and more accessories than
I ever knew existed, the book concludes with a primer on practical lessons
of studio lighting.
Henry, B+H did themselves proud!
B.F.
From: "Richard Knoppow" dickburk@ix.netcom.com
Newsgroups: rec.photo.equipment.large-format
Subject: Re: B&J; 5x7 Special 7.5" lens ??
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002
"Gary Beasley" beasleyglb@mindspring.com wrote
> "Richard Knoppow" dickburk@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> > FWIW, the Rapid-Rectilinear is a famous lens. It is a
> >symmetrical lens with two cemented elements in each cell.
> >Symmetry is important because a symmetrical lens is
> >automatically corrected for coma, lateral color, and
> >distortion. Coma is a fault similar to spherical aberration
> >except it exists off axis and gets worse the further off
> >axis you get. It looks like a tear-drop shaped smearing of
> >points. The R-R type lens was one of the first reasonably
> >fast and reasonably good performing lenses to become
> >available.
...
> Very cool bit of history there. Where did you find it?
> You could do a regular column on things like this in a good photo
> magazine. Ever had any offers? I like your style.
Thank you. It comes from several sources. If you are
interested in lens history a good place to start is a book
by Rudolf Kingslake. Kingslake was, among other things, the
head of Kodak's lens department from about 1938 until 1961.
During this time Kodak made some of the finest lenses made
anywhere.
He also taught at the University of Rochester for many
years. He is a lucid writer, anything he wrote is worth
reading.
_A History of the Photographic Lens_ Rudolf Kingslake,
(1989) San Diego, The Academic Press ISBN 0-12-408640-3
I think this is out of print now but its worth checking.
Larger libraries should have it or be able to get it on
interlibrary loan. About on quarter is short biographies of
optical pioneers.
---
Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@ix.netcom.com
From: Marv Soloff msoloff@worldnet.att.net
Newsgroups: rec.photo.equipment.large-format
Subject: Re: B&J; 5x7 Special 7.5" lens ??
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002
...
You should also have the CEK Mees volume on Photography, Bell, London,
1936 - just to round it out.
Regards,
Marv
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002
From: Manu Schnetzler marsu@earthling.net
To: hasselblad@kelvin.net
Subject: Re: [HUG] Today's Hasselblad workshop
Jim,
thanks for helping with the workshop. We had a great day and it was fun
playing with some of that gear - except for the fog coming out exactly
when I mounted the TPP 300mm on my camera... great group of people
indeed, and the Keeble & Shuchat staff was very nice.
I had fun with the 30mm and 50mm FE... time to start saving now...
I mentioned this book to you Jim: "Edge of Darkness: The Art, Craft, and
Power of the High-Definition Monochrome Photograph" by Barry Thornton
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0817438157/qid=1034601541/sr=8-7/r
ef=sr_8_7/002-0829572-3552069?v=glance&n;=507846
This is a book I definitely recommend to anyone on the list, especially
those doing black & white. Lots of great advice and an entertaining read.
Have fun in Carmel - hope to see you soon!
Manu
Jim Brick wrote:
> I want to thank those who are on this list that attended the Hasselblad
> workshop, held today, on the north side of the Golden Gate bridge.
> Sausalito and points west.
>
> We had the added bonus of it being "Fleet Week" and San Francisco Bay
> was filled with boats, and the Blue Angels performed over the bay, in
> between the Golden Gate Bridge and the Oakland Bay Bridge. A spectacular
> event.
> There was plenty of equipment available for trial. Everything from a
> dozen 501 bodies, a FlexBody, 500mm, 350mm, THE 300/2.8 lens, 30mm
> fisheye, etc... Free film from Kodak.
>
> I spent the early morning photographing the GG bridge shrouded in fog
> then spent the rest of the day with the participants, answering
> questions and solving problems. Great fun. :-)
>
> It was a really great day out photographing in a gorgeous setting, San
> Francisco Bay and the Golden Gate Bridge, using Hasselblads, with a
> group of r-e-a-l-l-y great people.
>
> :-)
>
> Jim
From nikon mailing list:
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002
From: Robert Monaghan rmonagha@post.smu.edu
Subject: nikon books list? comments?
Randy Holst noted:
I've got around 20+ books on the Nikon system, including both of
Braczko's books, and they ALL contain errors. Even the full line
catalogs published by Nikon are sprinkled with errors, some of them
pretty obvious. Having several different references for the same
information proves useful in clearing up discrepancies.
endquote
Randy, can we get a listing of some of these resources? any comments on 'em?
Here's my own listing of nikon related resources...
amphoto Official Nikon (F/F2) and Nikkormat Handbook (Revised)
amphoto Official Nikon F and Nikkormat Manual
Comon, Paul and Art Evans Nikon Data Manual
cooper and abbott Nikon cameras compendium (7 books)
crawley, geoff - Nikon System (including Nikkormat)
Hillebrand, R.+H. Hauschild Nikon Compendium
London, Barbara Short Course in Nikon Photography
Nikon Eyes of Nikon
Nikon Nikon Beginner's Guide to SLR Camera (from Nikon school)
Peterson, Moose Nikon System Handbook
Reynolds, Clyde Nikon F2Sb, F2S, F2.. Handbook (Hove)
Rooney, Ed (editor) Nikon Image
Shipman, Carl How to Select and Use Nikon and Nikkormat SLR Cameras
Shipman, Carl How to Select and Use Nikon SLR Cameras
Wright, George B. Nikon Manual (S, S2) complete hbk of 35mm technique
McBroom's Camera Bluebook - list of lenses, price ranges
misc nikon pubs, nikon world, brochures, manuals etc.
regards bobm
From nikon mailing list:
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002
From: "peninhal" peninhal@netzero.net
Subject: Re: nikon books list? comments?
Bob,
Technically I think we could say there are "3" Braczko books with the
"Pocket Book of Nikon" 1st Edition in 1994 and the 2nd printing (updated
?)in 1996. Then the Silver Pixel Press Big Book's USA edition coming in
2000. Or should we says it's 4 counting the German edition? LOL
Harold
From ZICG mailing list:
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002
From: charzou@aol.com
Subject: Re: Re: Biotar, Biogon, Biometar... AND what about Lens quality measures ?
Try the Kingslake book Bill Lurie referred to, and the oft-mentioned
Vademecum compiled by Neil Wright in England, both of which are absolutely
remarkable compendia of lens lore, including the sort of stuff you mention,
Javier. The former is for paper and ink people, and expensive and hard to
find, while the latter is a CD-ROM available for a modest donation
(literally) through Kevin Bell at Camera Quest. Both should be in the
libraries of any avid photo historian.
Charlie
summarex@yahoo.com writes:
Hi
What I'de love to see is a list of all the famous
German lenses with their corresponding generic lens
formulas - Tessars, planar, sonnar, etc
I've always assumed the Old Meyer Oreston 50/1.8 was a
planar type but it could be a Tessar I guess.
Once you guys have figured what the Zeiss lens names
mean you should try the Steinheils. The the hell is a
Quinon and is it better than a Quinar? How bout a
Quinaron or Cassarit. Unlike Zeiss the Steinheils
don't seem to reflect a optical formula or a max
aperture as with the Leitz stuff.
See Ya
Javier
From russian camera mailing list:
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003
To: Russiancamera-user russiancamera-user@mail.beststuff.com
From: "Roman J. Rohleder" rjrohleder@web.de
Subject: [Russiancamera] Reissued: Kiev88 Repair Manual
Tovarishi,
Crosspost from KievReport and Kievaholic..
I have been informed through the german newsgroup de.rec.fotografie -
Message ID b3j14r$ob2$04$1@news.t-online.com
- that the german languages repair manual "Kiev 88/88TTL Reparatur-Handbuch"
by Wolfgang Weiner will soon be
available again in a new edition. The story is: A fellow Kiev-User -the
author of above message-tried to track
down a affordable sample of that book and asked the author who gave him one
of his own. They discussed recently
ebay-auctions on that article which led to a high price of 128EUR - and Mr.
Weiner decided to start a small re-
print of it to work against these tendencies.
According to him and Johannes Blankart, it will be available soon, probably
already next week, at the old price
which I remember beeing around 20 or 25 Euro (either 40 or 48DM in 1998).
Those who are interested in obtaining it
fast should write a mail to kievhandbuch@blankarts.de - he will forward the
mails to the Publisher Wittig Books.
I think it is a helpful resource - I never needed mine so far, but I
appreciated reading it and trying to
understand the function.
Gruss, Roman
From camera repair mailing list:
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2003
From: "lensincs lensinc@lensinc.net
Subject: Discounts on repair manuals at www.lensinc.net
Hi,
I have a website for Camera Hobbyists that offers links, information,
free repair tips as well as high quality repair manuals for sale
http://www.lensinc.net. I am in the process of slowly liquidating
all of my bound paper repair manuals and going entirely to repair
manuals in PDF format on CDs. If anyone at camera-fix@yahoogroups.com
is in need of a bound paper repair manual and if I have it in stock,
they may purchase the manual for a flat 20% off my current 10 cents
per page pricing on the manuals. Please understand, I am not making
the offer public on my website and if one of your members want the
discount, they must reference this email or the
camera-fix@yahoogroups.com - Hobbyist Camera Repair Group. Also, the
discount does not apply to PDF repair manuals on CDs.
Thank you,
Jim Hutchins
Website: http://www.lensinc.net
Email: mailto:jim@lensinc.net
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003
To: Russiancamera-user russiancamera-user@mail.beststuff.com
From: Peter Wallage peterwallage@btinternet.com
Subject: [Russiancamera] Re: Me want Maizenberg book!
Andrews Cameras in the UK had a few copies left some months ago. They do
ship to the US. Their website is
http://www.andrewscameras.co.uk/
Peter
From photo-3D mailing list:
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003
From: Koda Chrome kodachrome64film@yahoo.com
Subject: Stereo Realist Manual (was Re: Introducing Ourselves)
> Then, as luck would have it, I found a Stereo
> Realist Manual at a used book sale.
This book is probably one of the best introduction to
Realist photography. I have been checking out a copy
from the Los Angeles Public Library (slightly damaged
as a result of an arson attack at the main library
several years ago). I just bought my own copy of this
book after doing an internet search. I heard that
this book originally listed for about $10. Would you
believe that this book is now being sold for prices
between $35 (lowest price I could find) to $250! And
several book sellers want this much even lacking the
viewer that came with the book.
I had heard that the viewer, which was enclosed in an
envelope in the back of the book, was manufactured by
the David White Co. Is this true?
(Murray) Kodachrome64film
From minolta manual mailing list:
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003
From: "Scott DeSelle" snmdeselle@attbi.com
Subject: Books on manual Minolta cameras?
Over the years I've found four books on manual Minolta cameras:
-Minolta Reflex Photography by John Wolf (Amphoto, 1977)
-A short course in Minolta photography by Barbara London (VNR, 1979)
-Minolta SLR Cameras by Carl Shipman (HP Books, 1980)
-The Complete Minolta SLR Camera & Accessory Guide (Minolta, 1983)
Are there any other titles out there that are worth tracking down?
-Scott
From minolta manual mailing list:
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003
From: "xkaes" xkaes@aol.com
Subject: Re: Books on manual Minolta cameras?
Scott,
There is a complete list on the MINMAN website. There are lots of
other books. Whether or not they are useful depends a lot on which
camera you have.
From rangefinder mailing list:
Date: Fri, 9 May 2003
From: "Merritt, Robert" MerrittR1@ING-AFS.com
Subject: RE: [RF List] Book - "Rangefinder - Equipment, history & techniqu es"
I look forward to getting it. I greatly enjoy their work, and one of the
things I like a lot is that it IS opinionated -- but they give you enough
information to be able to make your own determinations, or at least to
investigate further.
So, what are some of those "classic user cameras"?
Nick
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Burke [mailto:tom@thbtotley.co.uk]
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003
To: rflist@topica.com
Subject: [RF List] Book - "Rangefinder - Equipment, history & techniques"
This book has just been published. My copy arrived yesterday and I
thought I'd post a min-review here.
It's by the well-known duo of Roger Hicks & Frances Schultz, and is
published by 'The Guild of Master Craftsmen'. ISBN is 1861083300. It's
hardback, 180 glossy pages. Lots of illustrations, in b&w; & colour;
there are very few pages without a picture, so there's not actually a
lot of text. Chapter titles include a History; Classic User Cameras;
Modern 35mm RF Cameras; Lenses; Accessories; etc. The book is dedicated
to Hirofumi Kobayashi.
There's a lot of coverage of the Voigtlander Bessa cameras, Leica (of
course), and all the usual classic suspects - Contax, Nikon, etc. Very
little on the 50s & 60s fixed lens RF cameras - Canonet et al. What
there is, however, is quite a lot of coverage on larger-format cameras,
which they include by expanding the book's scope to 'Direct Vision'
cameras. Thus there is a whole chapter on 'bigger than 35mm' cameras
(eg, Fuji, Linhof, etc), though strangely I haven't seen any mention of
the Mamiya 7 and other recent MF RF cameras.
Basically this is a personal, idiosyncratic book in their familiar style
from two writers who have well-known likes & dislikes which they parade
to the full here! They are RF fans - Roger Hicks especially has done a
number of glowing reviews in the UK photo press of the Voigtlander
equipment, and there are a lot of pictures of his taken with that
equipment in this book. So lots of glowing words about Voigtlander,
Leica, Alpa, Linhof. Lots of criticism of soviet cameras. It is
well-illustrated.
This isn't a scholarly book, and to be fair it doesn't pretend to be.
It's a celebration of the 'RF approach', based on the writers'
enthusiasm for their subject and their personal experiences, and using
pictures from their collections to illustrate it. Understandably,
therefore, the book is silent in areas where they aren't enthusiastic or
(I guess) don't have experience. I enjoyed it, but I'm sure that experts
in many of the older cameras mentioned will be distressed at omissions
and possibly errors. Worth a read, and (from Amazon) quite reasonably
priced - I got mine for GBP 16.50 or so, including P&P.;
Tom Burke
From rangefinder mailing list:
Date: Fri, 9 May 2003
From: Tom Burke tom@thbtotley.co.uk
Subject: RE: Book - "Rangefinder - Equipment, history & techniqu es"
Merritt, Robert wrote:
>
> I look forward to getting it. I greatly enjoy their work, and one of
> the
> things I like a lot is that it IS opinionated -- but they give you
> enough
> information to be able to make your own determinations, or at least to
> investigate further.
>
> So, what are some of those "classic user cameras"?
>
> Nick
There's some mnention of what they refer to as 'fixed lens cameras' -
ie, the 50s to 70s rangefinders. The mention Konica a lot, and there's a
mention of Yashica & Olympus cameras, but strangely no mention of the
Canonet family. There's a few pages on Leica M cameras - the screw-mount
cameras are covered in the History chapter; then there's coverage of Fed
& Kiev; a mention of the Minolta CLE; a para or so on Nikon, which is
covered briefly because the cost of them prevent them being 'User'
cameras; Nikonos; Retina; Robot (! - this is certainly eclectic); old
Voigtlanders; and Zorki. Modern 35mm RF cameras include the Voigtlander
Bessa range that we all know about; Leica; Contax G; XPan; Konica; some
others; and finishing with Yasuhara.
So the book covers a lot of ground, and (as I said) is well illustrated,
both with 'scenes' and pictures of the equipment mentioned.
Tom Burke
From: Tom Christiansen [tomchr@softhome.net]
Sent: Sun 5/11/2003
To: hasselblad@kelvin.net
Subject: Re: [HUG] landscape book
you wrote:
>I am just returning to photography after 40 years and I am interested in
>landscapes. I have read Wildi's book. Are there suggestions for other
>resources?
I suggest:
Freeman Patterson: "Photoghaphy and the Art of Seeing" ISBN 1-55013-099-4
Charlie Waite: "Seeing Landscapes" ISBN 0-8174-5831-X
Jack Dykinga: "Large Format Nature Photography" ISBN 0-8174-4157-3
John Shaw: "John Shaw's Landscape Photography" ISBN 0-8174-3710-X
John Shaw: "John Shaw's Nature Photography Field Guide" ISBN 0-8174-4059-3
Charlie Waite shoots a fair amount of stuff with the Hasselblad. The rest
is AFAIR 6x17.
Tom
From rangefinder mailing list:
Date: Fri, 9 May 2003
From: Tom Burke tom@thbtotley.co.uk
Subject: Book - "Rangefinder - Equipment, history & techniques"
This book has just been published. My copy arrived yesterday and I
thought I'd post a min-review here.
It's by the well-known duo of Roger Hicks & Frances Schultz, and is
published by 'The Guild of Master Craftsmen'. ISBN is 1861083300. It's
hardback, 180 glossy pages. Lots of illustrations, in b&w; & colour;
there are very few pages without a picture, so there's not actually a
lot of text. Chapter titles include a History; Classic User Cameras;
Modern 35mm RF Cameras; Lenses; Accessories; etc. The book is dedicated
to Hirofumi Kobayashi.
There's a lot of coverage of the Voigtlander Bessa cameras, Leica (of
course), and all the usual classic suspects - Contax, Nikon, etc. Very
little on the 50s & 60s fixed lens RF cameras - Canonet et al. What
there is, however, is quite a lot of coverage on larger-format cameras,
which they include by expanding the book's scope to 'Direct Vision'
cameras. Thus there is a whole chapter on 'bigger than 35mm' cameras
(eg, Fuji, Linhof, etc), though strangely I haven't seen any mention of
the Mamiya 7 and other recent MF RF cameras.
Basically this is a personal, idiosyncratic book in their familiar style
from two writers who have well-known likes & dislikes which they parade
to the full here! They are RF fans - Roger Hicks especially has done a
number of glowing reviews in the UK photo press of the Voigtlander
equipment, and there are a lot of pictures of his taken with that
equipment in this book. So lots of glowing words about Voigtlander,
Leica, Alpa, Linhof. Lots of criticism of soviet cameras. It is
well-illustrated.
This isn't a scholarly book, and to be fair it doesn't pretend to be.
It's a celebration of the 'RF approach', based on the writers'
enthusiasm for their subject and their personal experiences, and using
pictures from their collections to illustrate it. Understandably,
therefore, the book is silent in areas where they aren't enthusiastic or
(I guess) don't have experience. I enjoyed it, but I'm sure that experts
in many of the older cameras mentioned will be distressed at omissions
and possibly errors. Worth a read, and (from Amazon) quite reasonably
priced - I got mine for GBP 16.50 or so, including P&P.;
Tom Burke
From: Henry Posner [henryp@bhphotovideo.com]
Sent: Thu 5/29/2003
To: hasselblad@kelvin.net
Subject: [HUG] Re: OT: Studio Strobes/Monlights
you wrote:
> I'm new to studio lighting ...
Go to
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bh4.sph/FrameWork.class?FNC=GetPage__Aindex_html___page=FreeCatalog.html
and sign up for our 700+ page lighting sourcebook.
-- -
regards,
Henry Posner
B&H; Photo-Video, and Pro-Audio Inc.
http://www.bhphotovideo.com
[Ed. note: a commercial service, but possible of interest to some book hunters...]
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From: drsmithhm@hotmail.com (drsmith)
Newsgroups: rec.photo.equipment.35mm
Subject: Re: Photography course from a book?
Date: 10 Jun 2003
Gregory L. Hansen glhansen@steel.ucs.indiana.edu wrote:
>On a somewhat related note, what kinds of photo assignments have people
>given themselves? Self assignments, not stuff a client says to do.
>--
>"Is that plutonium on your gums?"
>"Shut up and kiss me!"
> -- Marge and Homer Simpson
I like to photograph landscapes and old buildings, so I generally make
it a goal to either get to a park I've never been to before or to find
some interesting older buildings to photograph. I do this every weekend
if possible.
For the landscapes, I'll usually find interesting subjects by the
roadside while I'm on my way to/from a destination, so those aren't
too difficult to find. As for choosing where I want to go, I've got
topographical maps of the entire state(software) so it's fairly easy
to look at the map and find probable scenic vistas. Tip: Most
cemetaries are in very scenic locations, so if you see one on the
map, plan to at least drive by it(Of course, it also helps that most
towns will place the cemetary on high-ground to avoid the possibility
that a flood will cause the 'remains' to float to the surface, but
that's probably more than you needed to know).
For the older buildings, we have a landmark society that organizes
tours of local historical buildings. You'd be surprised how many
are still standing from the 1800's with much of the original styling
intact. If you find areas of the house that are well worn from years
of use, they can be very inspiring depending on how you work with it.
Overall, I get my inspiration from looking at other people's work.
When I find something I like, I make it a point to get out there and
do something similar, but with my own vision. I don't think you
really need a book to tell you how to do that.
For the technical, I've found this group somewhat helpful. Galen
Rowell's Mountain Light was/is very helpful.
--drsmith
From nikon MF mailing list:
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003
From: "peninhal" peninhal@netzero.net
Subject: Nikon Compendium....
If like me you ordered the newest Nikon Compendium#2 last year
(Amazon.com) and have been wondering where the h*#% it was, I finally went
to Hove's web site ( http://www.hovebooks.com/newsletter/index.html ) and
found the answer. They were trying to add in all of Nikon's newest (a lot
of digital) equipment in before publishing. They added more than 25% new
material and even have a contest for guessing the correct number of pages
eventually in the finished book, now slated for shipping mid-July 2003'ish.
I hope my coffee table has the approved GWV - LOL.
H*
From: "Igor Kurchavov" ikurchavov@shaw.ca
Newsgroups: rec.photo.marketplace
Subject: Book: "How to make a high quality lenticular 3D photo at home for under $3.5"
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003
Hello!
Do you know about the new tecnology of making 3D high quality inexpensive
lenticular photo? If not, please, see
http://www.3dpictures.biz/technology.htm
Best Regards,
Igor Kurchavov
www.3dpictures.biz
From leica topica mailing list:
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003
From: dnr@horizon.bc.ca
Subject: Erwin Puts' R-Lens Booklets (Free!)
All:
I was checking in with the Leica web-site (www.leica-camera.com) and
discovered that they have something new on 'R' lenses!
Erwin Puts is producing a new 8 page pamphlet on R-lenses, every
fortnight.
I have just downloaded the July 2003 "Leica R-Lenses .. Introduction ",
and there is to be a new one every two weeks. Downloadable and printable
in .pdf format.
This "Introduction" is fairly basic, but well presented.
You can find it at:
http://www.leica-camera.com/produkte/rsystem/objektive/index_e.html
David Young
Victoria, CANADA
Website at: www.horizon.bc.ca/~dnr
From: "Richard Knoppow" dickburk@ix.netcom.com
Newsgroups: rec.photo.equipment.large-format
Subject: Re: Books and reference on shutter CLA and basic repair
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003
"Dr. Dagor" drdagor@hotmail.com wrote
> I know, I know, I know... smart people send their shutters to Grimes
> or Camera Wiz, and fools like me try to clean and adjust them
> themselves...
>
> So for fools like me, what are the basic books/articles/references on
> doing CLAs and adjusting shutters?
See John Craig's site at http://www.craigcamera.com and
Petra Keller's at http://www.camerabooks.com both have
reprint factory manuals on shutters and cameras.
Another source is Ed Romney who publishes a series of
books on camera repair. His current stuff is considerably
improved over the originals.
Craig, I think, has some of the old National Camera
training booklets which are excellent.
I got into repairing my own stuff after encountering an
absolutely incompetant fellow at a highly recommended place
locally.
You don't need many special tools but a good magnifier and
a steady hand are helpful. Most shutters do not need
extensive disassembly to clean.
A very helpful tool is the little shutter tester sold by
Calumet. I think these things are to around $100 now (I paid
$60 for mine). This will tell you exactly what the shutter
is doing. I can be used on between the lens shutters and
focal plane shutters. Its sensor is small enough to check
the end to end uniformity of the FP shutters in 35mm
cameras. It will also measure strobe duration time,
sometimes useful to know.
---
Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@ix.netcom.com
From camera makers mailing list:
From: MMagid3005@aol.com
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003
To: cameramakers@rosebud.opusis.com
Subject: [Cameramakers] Aerial Camera book
I've been away for a couple of weeks and just saw the thread on aerial
cameras from a few days ago. I have a book "Air Cameras 1915-1945 RAF and USAAF" by
Alf Pyner. It was published by the Photographic Historical Society of
Canada. It's $25.00 (US) and I got it through Larry Boccioletti. His email address
is larbocci@interlog.com.
I recently acquired a Folmer & Schwing 4 X 5 aerial camera that is very
similar to a pre-WW I model that is pictured in the book but different in several
respects. It may be a pre-production model.
Marty Magid
[Ed. note: re: lens Vade Mecum CDROM on Ebay]
From: dcolucci@aol.comspam (DColucci)
Newsgroups: rec.photo.marketplace.large-format
Date: 29 Aug 2003
Subject: Re: FS: Huge Lens Collectors Book on CD-ROM $ 19
With shipping to the US, it costs 17 UK Pounds from MW Classics. Thats roughly
$ 27.00 US Dollars. And of my $ 19 US charge, $ 6 goes to charity...
http://members.aol.com/dcolucci/ Antique & Classic Camera Site
From: danielwfromm@att.com (Dan Fromm)
Newsgroups: rec.photo.marketplace.large-format
Subject: Re: FS: Huge Lens Collectors Book on CD-ROM $ 19
Date: 28 Aug 2003
dcolucci@aol.comspam (DColucci) wrote
> FS: Huge Lens Collectors Book on CD-ROM $ 19
> see
> http://members.aol.com/oct0969/sell.htm
...ridiculous! It costs UKP 5 plus postage from MW Classic Cameras.
From Kiev88 mailing list:
Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004
From: "Dale Dickerson" dale.dickerson@verizon.net
Subject: RE: Re: Must have Photo Books?
If you want to learn lighting and portraits, I recommend three books:
Professional Secrets of Natural Light Photography by Douglas Box
Lighting for People Photography by Stephen Crain
The Art of the Bridal Portrait Photography by Marty Seefer
(Do not let the word Bridal stop you from getting this for help in
learning other portrait work. It has very nice techniques that apply to
any portrait work.)
I could list others, but must everything you need is found in these
three books.
Dale
-----Original Message-----
Looking for DIY studio and lighting info really.
Cheers
M
From: kwinkler@sennheiserusa.com (Karl Winkler)
Newsgroups: rec.photo.equipment.medium-format
Subject: Re: Book recomendation: composition and landscapes
Date: 26 Mar 2004
paddleman@aol.comnospam (Paddleman)
> I am asking for a few recomendations on books that deal with composition and
> lighting geared toward landscape and general outdoor photography with film. If
> you feel strongly about a tilte please let me know.
>
> Regards,
> Gary
Jack Dykinga's "Large Format Nature Photography" comes to mind. It's
for LF cameras, but many of the same ideas he covers are applicable.
And his photographs are outstanding.
-Karl
http://pages.cthome.net/karlwinkler
From: "Bandicoot" "insert_handle_here"@techemail.com
Newsgroups: rec.photo.equipment.medium-format
Subject: Re: Book recomendation: composition and landscapes
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004
"Paddleman" paddleman@aol.comnospam wrote
> I am asking for a few recomendations on books that deal with
> composition and lighting geared toward landscape and general
> outdoor photography with film. If you feel strongly about a
> tilte please let me know.
>
Galen Rowell wrote several books that deal in a very intelligent fashion
with issues around landscape photography, touching on composition and much
else. "Mountain Light" is excellent, and "Galen Rowell's Inner Game of
Outdoor Photography" - a collection of essays - is one of my top
recommendations for a photography book for anyone once they have passed
beyond simply understanding the basics.
In a very different vein - and complementary to Rowell's approach - are two
books by Charlie Waite: "Seeing Landscapes" and "The Making of Landscape
Photographs". These are both example packed, not hard to read, and the
images are inspiring. All taken on medium format.
Bill Smith's "Designing a Photograph" isn't landscape specific, but is a
good guide to compositional ideas.
Almost anything by Freeman Patterson is worth a look. In particular a book
I can't find just now but which is called something like "Photographing the
patterns of Earth".
Also look at books of pictures by 'the masters'. I personally find Elliot
Porter particularly inspiring, and also enjoy Joe Cornish's work.
The other great composition book is, of course, "Drawing on the Right Side
of the Brain". Do look at books aimed at painters as well as photographers
for composition ideas - they are often better written for one thing! Also
look at painting, both representational and abstract, at every opportunity.
And next time you are in a book shop or library, have a look at a few books
on flower arranging. The ideas of colour harmony, balance, proportion,
contrast of mass and texture and so on are all reproduced on a miniature
scale and in 'concentrated' form here. I have several such books because I
like to arrange flowers for the house and because I photograph cut flowers
as well as those growing - but subsequently it struck what a powerful
miniature landscape a good flower arrangement is.
Peter (typing in the middle of a hail storm, glad he isn't out with a camera
right now...)
[Ed. note: this for-sale site has some extended descriptions that may be useful...]
From: Gary Saretzky [saretzky@rci.rutgers.edu]
Sent: Wed 3/17/2004
To: Monaghan, Robert
Subject: photo books
A friend recommended your photo books site to me; lots of interesting
information there! Perhaps you might be interested in my web site
where I have information about the history of photography and a list of
more than 300 photo books for sale.
cordially,
gary saretzky
Saretzky Online
http://saretzky.com
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004
From: "B. D. Colen" bdcolen@earthlink.net
Subject: [Leica] A must have book.
To: "'Leica Users Group'" lug@leica-users.org
"the fat baby - stories by eugene richards," arguably belongs on any
list of the first five 'must-have' books for anyone interested in
serious documentary photography/photojournalism. (The other four? Robert
Frank's "The Americans," "HCB - The Man, The Image & The World,"
"Requiem," and "Dream Street: W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh Project.")
"the fat baby" is a massive book - more than 300 images, 17 text
stories, and about 420 pages, in which Richards tells stories about, or
connect to, the groups of images from an assortment of assignments and
projects that have been shot and reported since the early 90s. Most of
these photos have not been in books before.
The text is not about the photos, and there are no captions. Instead,
the texts tell the stories of the people, and Richard's experiences,
connected to the photos. Some of the texts are extremely
self-revelatory, and a number of them are extremely moving. While not as
good a writer as he is a photographer, he is still a very good writer -
a far better writer than anyone who is such an outstanding photographer
should be expected to be.
This truly is a seminal work, and would be well worth the high price of
admission ($100 - about $65 on Amazon) even if one only got the final
story and photos documenting Richards' last trip to his boyhood home to
help his elderly father finish packing up for a move to Florida.
B. D.
> I am looking for travel guides addressing the needs of a landscape
> photographer. Guides that info on points of interest, how to access
> them, best time to visit/shoot (sunrise or sun set, conditions through
> out the year), different photographic resources in the area etc. The
> places I am interested in are Utah and Arizona.
>
> While searching on the net I came across the following website:
> http://phototravel.com/ where they posted excerpts from their Photo
> travel guide books that they publish. The information on the website
> seems to be pretty useful.
> I was wondering if any of you used those guide books and if you could
> share your experience.
> Please let me know if you know of any other resources.. Thanks.
>
> Van.
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000
From: "Frank Filippone" red735i@earthlink.net
Subject: [Leica] Chris Rainier: Primitive Tribes
red735i@earthlink.net
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000
Newsgroups: rec.photo.technique.nature
Subject: Re: Good Photos in Magazines
> BBC Wildlife magazine is a magazine about *wild*life (international in
> scope) with extremely high production and photographic values.
> Although it is not specifically a photography magazine, it often has a photo
> hints page on one particular topic, photo competitions of various sorts, and
> the annual Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, which is by far
> the most prestigious competion in the UK to get images accepted into.
> It must be available in the States, as plenty of American photographers
> feature in the competition.
--
Kerry L. Thalmann Large Format Images of Nature
A Few of My Images Online at: http://www.thalmann.com/
Newsgroups: sci.astro.amateur,sci.astro.amateur.ccd,sci.astro,uk.sci.astro
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000
Subject: Astrophotography book chapter is now online
Author, ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY FOR THE AMATEUR
http://www.CovingtonInnovations.com/astro
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000
Newsgroups: rec.photo.equipment.35mm
Subject: Re: Books suggestions for basic-intermidiate photography
Newsgroups: rec.photo.equipment.35mm
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000
Subject: Re: Book on photo composition?
> Hi,
>
> Can anyone recommend a good book on photo composition? I was thoroughly
> impressed by one of (actually, several of) John Hedgecoe (sp?) book but
> would like to have another opinion.
Newsgroups: rec.photo.equipment.35mm
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000
Subject: Re: Book on photo composition?
>Hi,
>
>Can anyone recommend a good book on photo composition? I was thoroughly
>impressed by one of (actually, several of) John Hedgecoe (sp?) book but
>would like to have another opinion.
David Littlewood
Energy Consultant and Photographer
From Minolta Mailing List:
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000
From: gs1@localnet.com
Subject: Finger Lakes Photo Books
Finger Lakes Photo Books
P.O. Box 1002
Elbridge, NY 13060-1002
email: flpbks@localnet.com
web: www.photomall.com/flpbks.htm
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000
From: "Mike" NEDSNAKE@email.msn.com
Subject: Re: The real reason Leica is better (I hate to burst your
bubble)
Japan Light Machinery Information Center, New York
44th floor, Mcgraw-Hill Bldg., 1221 Avenue of the Americas,
New York N.Y. 10020-1062, U.S.A.
Tel.No. +1-212-997-0444
Fax.No. +1-212-819-7795
> Mike,
> In light of Nikon making their own glass, while the others buy from
> Japan or the US (Dow Corning has facilities in Japan) I wonder if
> you have really thought about what you are saying. Which European
> maker produces their own glass... and which makes all their own
> lenses?
From: "Terry" terryde@pacbell.net
Newsgroups: rec.photo.equipment.35mm
Subject: Any good photo composition books?
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000
Newsgroups: rec.photo.marketplace
Subject: New Handbook on Close-up Photography Out
From: oorque@aol.com (OorQue)
Newsgroups: rec.photo.equipment.medium-format
Subject: Square-format landscape book...
From: "W Scott Elliot" selliot@direct.ca
Newsgroups: rec.photo.technique.nature
Subject: Re: Any good photo composition books?
http://mypage.direct.ca/s/selliot
> Hi,
>
> Any good books on photo composition? I ordered Ernst Wildi's "Composition
> Techniques from a Master Photographer" from Amazon.com but would like to
> know if there are any other books worth purchasing too? I'm a beginner and
> most of my photography interests are of Nature, landscapes, and animals.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Terry
>
> http://216.103.52.99/~TBONE/index.html
From: pburian@aol.com (PBurian)
Newsgroups: rec.photo.equipment.35mm
Subject: Re: Best Photography Books? Need your opinion
>I mean,
>a good run for a camera techy book is what, 10-20,000 copies?>>
From: "Nandakumar Sankaran" TheNandakumars@hotmail.com
Newsgroups: rec.photo.technique.nature
Subject: Re: landscape book
http://www.geocities.com/concertocolors/
From: "R. A. Glidewell" rg@glidewell.net
Newsgroups: rec.photo,rec.photo.technique.people,rec.photo.misc,rec.photo.equipment.misc
[1] Dean Collins Tinker Tubes book download
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001
From: Doc748@aol.com
Subject: Re: [Rollei] Re: Miami camera show
From Contax Mailing List:
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001
From: Bob Shell bob@bobshell.com
Subject: Re: [CONTAX] Contax Cameras and Quality in Photography
> From: "J. W. Spicer, Jr." jws.kis@worldnet.att.net
> Reply-To: contax@photo.cis.to
> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001
> To: "Contax SLR Mail List" contax@photo.cis.to
> Subject: [CONTAX] Contax Cameras and Quality in Photography
>
> I recently bought the book, "Quality in Photography," by Roger Hicks and
> Francis Schultz, published by Amphoto Books. In addition to giving a
> thorough analysis of what constitutes quality in photography, it gives
> techniques for achieving quality through selection of cameras, lenses,
> accessories, film, and developers. It also makes recommendations for
> shooting, film processing, darkroom and printing, and presentation.
> Finally, it describes how Francis came to switch from Nikon SLRs to Contax
> SLRs. I believe this book would be a useful addition to the library of the
> list members, since Contaxians are consumed by the search for quality in
> their pictures.
Date: Fri, 9-Mar-2001
From: Matthew Pulzer pulzer@dial.pipex.com
Subject: Erwin Puts' new book
Fax: +44 (0)1273 494992
Brighton, England
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001
From: Marc James Small msmall@roanoke.infi.net
Subject: Re: [Rollei] OT: Ennagon lens
>Does anyone know what type of lens an Enna Werk Munchen Ennagon is?
>I have not been able to find details in my books. If is on a nice 6x6 folder,
>so I would expect it is a Tessar type lens.
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001
From: ARTHURWG@aol.com
Subject: Re: [Rollei] Ray Metzker
Date: Tue, 08 May 2001
From: Stephen Gandy Stephen@CameraQuest.com
Subject: Camera Research on CD -- National Geographic
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001
From: Marc James Small msmall@roanoke.infi.net
Subject: Re: [Rollei] A new book from one of our own-
>The Cedar Rapids Iowa Library has a fine collection
>also. I think it involves where you live and who makes
>requests to the library staff.
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001
From: Michael Levy yvel@adelphia.net
Subject: [Rollei] Re: Fr\iday sale ads : A book by one of our own
Michael Levy
73 Fairlawn Dr.
East Aurora, NY 14052
ph:716-652-1914
e-mail:yvel@adelphia.net
From Camera Makers Mailing List;
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001
From: "J. Wayde Allen" wallen@lug.boulder.co.us
Subject: [Cameramakers] Navy Training Manual for Photography on-line
> I have Vols. 1 & 2 of the Navy Training Manual for Photography
> printed in 1951. Vol. 2 has about 15 pages devoted to developing and
> drying aerial film using the Smith Developing Outfit, and has tables
> for development time using various films. It also has photos of the
> apparatus. There are 3 sizes of the Smith outfits for roll film: 5
> 1/4" X 25', 7" X 75', and 9 1/2" X 200'.
(wallen@lug.boulder.co.us)
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001
From: rworthy@goodnet.com
Subject: [Rollei] A new book from one of our own-
Date: Sat, 12 May 2001
From: shino@ubspainewebber.com
Subject: Re: [Rollei] A new book from one of our own-
Date: Sat, 12 May 2001
From: Nikon Cameras NikonCameras@asean-mail.com
Subject: Re: Lea's Register of 35mm SLR Cameras
> wrote:
>the Ukrainian Nikon Dentist wrote:
>
>> ... in Lea's Register of 35mm SLR Cameras 1935-1981 book, along with
>> a description of different cameras, they rate the cameras for quality.
>
>That's a reference book that is new to me. Could you post bibliographic
>details?
From Rollei Mailing List;
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001
From: Richard Knoppow dickburk@ix.netcom.com
Subject: Re: [Rollei] Photographic recipes
>Hello!
>
>Can anyone recommend books with photographic chemistry recipes? (Other than
>S. Anchell's books).
>
>I have Agfa Labor-Handbuch from 1942 and Agfa Rezepte from 1960 at the
>moment, but looking for more interesting books on this subject.
>
>/Patric
Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles,Ca.
dickburk@ix.netcom.com
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2001
From: Bob Shell bob@bobshell.com
Subject: Re: [Rollei] Rollei Users list digest V9 #232
> From: shino@ubspainewebber.com
> Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001
> Subject: Re: [Rollei] Rollei Users list digest V9 #232
>
> theres some nice camera books from hove and focal press that are hard to get
> over here.
>
> for example:
>
> the hasselblad compendium by nordin
> or
> the leica lens compendium by puts
>
> some of them you can get thru www.amazon.co.uk.
>
> -rei
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2001
From: Marc James Small msmall@roanoke.infi.net
Subject: [Rollei] Amazon & B&N;
>Where does this idea come from? I did a quick search over at the B&N online
>site and came up with just about any title I have ever wanted, including all
>the "Magic Lantern" guides, a Hassleblad manual etc etc, as well as 64
>titles by entering "Ansel Adams"...looks like they cover the waterfront
>pretty well. A friend of mine got a couple of the O-O-P Rollei books as well
>through Amazon.
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001
From: QWhoZeiss@aol.com
Subject: Re: [Rollei] Amazon & B&N;
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001
From: Richard Knoppow dickburk@ix.netcom.com
Subject: Re: [Rollei] Wanted - "The Photographic Lens"
>Does anyone have a copy of "The Photographic Lens" by Sidney Ray to
>sell/trade... I can't find one anywhere. Does anyone have a copy which
>they would lend to me to read?
>
>Jim
>--
>You only live once, and usually not even then - Michael O'Donoghue
>
>http://www.hemenway.com
Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles,Ca.
dickburk@ix.netcom.com
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001
Newsgroups: rec.photo.equipment.large-format,rec.photo.technique.art
Subject: Re: Edward Weston's peppers
> Can anyone suggest a book that has a LARGE number of Weston's peppers in
> it? I doubt that I've seen more than a half dozen examples in the
> various books I've looked at. There must be at least several dozen
> examples that he worked up to final prints. It'd be interesting to see
> the variation in treatment of a similar subject.
>
> On the same line I'm currently looking at a book called "Flatiron" by
> Peter G. Kreitler that just covers views of the Flatiron building from
> 1920 to 1990. Interesting.
--
Tom Thackrey
tom at creative-light.com
www.creative-light.com
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001
From: Steven Berkowitz murray1953@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Collecting Fakes, &c.;
From Russian Camera Mailing List;
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001
From: "Akira Kasuya" kasuyajpn@aol.com
Subject: Not so many
Tokyo,JAPAN
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001
From: Marc James Small msmall@roanoke.infi.net
Subject: Sasaki's CONTAX TO KIEV
>Any idea how to acquire one (english) copy of Mr Sasaki's book? 500 only?
>some small number to cater for the world, eh?
From Rangefinder Mailing List;
Date: Tue, 08 May 2001
From: Stephen Gandy Stephen@CameraQuest.com
Subject: Camera Research on CD -- National Geographic
Date: Sat, 12 May 2001
From: "L Shepherd" Shepherdlen@btinternet.com
Subject: Re: [NIKON] Re: OT: Who collects old camera's ? (2nd try)
> The reason I'm posting, Edwin, is to try to persuade you not to throw
> or give the camera away. It's much too valuable.
From: Rudolf Hillebrand hillebrand@photodeal.de
To: Robert Monaghan rmonagha@post.cis.smu.edu
Subject: Re: query: Re: [Rollei] interesting new book (fwd)
Rudi Hillebrand
> Greetings! Can you send me more info on this book, a URL of a page with
> info, or how I can order it from USA (credit card?) - thank you! bobm
>
> * Robert Monaghan POB752182 Dallas Tx 75275-2182 rmonagha@post.cis.smu.edu *
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000
> From: Bob Shell bob@bobshell.com
> To: rollei@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Rollei] interesting new book
>
> Rudi Hillebrand just sent me his latest effort
> written with Gunther Kadlubek, called Kadlubek's
> Lens Catalogue. It has text in German, English
> and Japanese, and lists just about every photographic
> lens ever made.
>
> Since there has been discussion here over who makes
> what, it is nice to have a table of all Rollei, Rolleinar,
> Voigtlander, etc., lenses telling who actually made
> them, plus lots of other interesting info. This will
> be a must for collectors to own.
>
> It costs $ 16.95 plus postage.
>
> Info from hillebrand@photodeal.de
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001
From: Bob Shell bob@bobshell.com
To: camera-fix@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [camera-fix] Fujica meter problem
> Secondly, what's Rudi Lea's "register" ?
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001
From: helleboreuk@yahoo.co.uk
Subject: [camera-fix] Maizenberg books
From: "Tom Coates" tecoates@home.com
Newsgroups: rec.photo.equipment.large-format
Subject: Re: Cheap Optics Texts for Photographers?
> Srum ... use the itnernet to buy. go to www.abebooks.com it is a consortium of
> used booksellers all over the world. I have used them frequentlywith complete
> success.
> Ted Harris
> Resource Strategy
> Henniker, New Hampshire
From: Bob Boudreau "arailfan"@post.com
Newsgroups: rec.photo.equipment.35mm
Subject: Re: Close Up Photography
> Model railroaders seem to have a little more activity in this field and there
> have been several books published.
>
> There is another book that I can't locate at the moment that covers a much
> broader range of equipment including medium format and technical cameras, and
> has sections written by different authors. I'll post it when I can find it.
> One of the authors is Malcolm Furlow who has graduated up through the formats
> to shoot model work with a 4X5 camera.
Model Railroad Photographer
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001
From: Tom Burke tom@thbtotley.co.uk
Subject: More Books
From: "Ken Showalter" admin@whatsonthe.net
Newsgroups: rec.photo.equipment.large-format
Subject: New Largeformat Book ****
Large Format Photography: On the Net 7000 Links (under Construction)
http://whatsonthe.net/largeformat.htm
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001
From: Bob Shell bob@bobshell.com
Subject: Re: Princelle
> From: Marc James Small msmall@roanoke.infi.net
> Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001
> To: russiancamera@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [russiancamera] Princelle
>
> Remember that Princelle was published by Hove Foto Books, who are NOT the
> same guys as Hove Books, publishers of such fine works as Bob Shell's CANON
> COMPENDIUM. Hove Foto Books is involved, someway or other, with Ian
> Parker, he of the impenetrable grammar in his Rollei Books.
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001
From: Marc James Small msmall@roanoke.infi.net
Subject: Re: [Rollei] Prochnow's Book
>Hello All;
>
>Can someone tell me where I might buy this book (or series of books)?
>
>I've very interested in the one(s) on the TLR.
msmall@roanoke.infi.net
Newsgroups: rec.photo.equipment.large-format
Date: 18 Aug 2001
Subject: Hollywood Portraits - Classic Shots
Christopher Nisperos which contains photographs of celebrities of the 30's,
40's and 50's(Ingrid Bergman,Cary Grant, etc.). The majority of the shots were
done using 8x10 cameras and Kodak Super XX and Tungsten lighting. I am
interested in duplicating the look, however using a modern lens(Rodenstock
Sironar N 360mm) and a modern film(Agfapan 100)and strobe lighting. According
to the book, the photographers of that era would underexpose and overdevelop to
achieve that classic Hollywoood "look". Does anyone in this group have any
specific recommendations for lens/film/developer that would produce that
"look"? TIA.
Chuck Richards
St. Louis, MO
Newsgroups: rec.photo.equipment.large-format
Subject: Re: Hollywood Portraits - Classic Shots
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001
gets you high contrast negatives with no shadow detail. I also suspect
that a veriety of films were used. Certainly ortho for many male
portraits and lots of Kodak Portrait Panchromatic which had an upward
rising curve something like Plus-X pan sheet film.
Most stuff was shot on 8x10 using large studio lights but not very
often stage type lighting.
Lighting, makeup and _retouching_, lots of it from some workers, is
the key. Hurrel retouchted the hell out of his portraits. Some others
didn't use so much retouching but did use lots of makup, especially on
women. Again, lighting is the key.
Look for an old book called _Painting with Light_ John Alton,
c.1949, for some hints. Alton was an academy award winning director of photography, and the only one AFAIK to write anything useful about his
work. Its a rather rare book but some libraries will have it.
He says the first lesson is how to light an orange so that the pores
don't show.
I think you can get the dramatic highlights by using a long toe film
like Plus-X, that is exactly what it was designed for.
As far as ortho film (part of Karsch's look on male portraits) you
are stuck because no one makes pictorial type ortho film anymore and
there is no filter with the right cyan transmission.
Work with smaller format, that makes little difference provided you
minimise grain. Larger negatives have a smoothness that 35mm rarely
has but the effects of different kinds of lighting will still be
apparent and the film will allow a lot more experimentation. Try to
use a long lens, 1.5x to 2x the "normal" focal length is about right
for both head and full body shots.
If you have one or both of the cable channels which show classic
movies pay attention to the portrait lighting (i.e., the lighting of closeups). Memorize the quality and try to figure out where the lights
must have been.
Old movies were lighted with a limited variety of instruments all
with quality you can duplicate with simple lighting.
---
Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, Ca.
dickburk@ix.netcom.com
Newsgroups: rec.photo.equipment.large-format
Subject: Re: Hollywood Portraits - Classic Shots
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001
Portraiture." He covers a lot of areas other than Hollywood glamour
lighting, but he does cover some areas that would be useful. If you are
interested in learning about negative retouching, I would recommend
"Negatisve and Print Retouching" by Anne J. Anthony. Both of these books
are rather old, but not too hard to find, especially on ebay.
Fixer Man
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001
From: Dave Saalsaa <SaalsD@cni-usa.com>
Subject: Re: Key to Leica acronyms
Charles Cason wrote:
> Can some one tell me if there is a book that has the key to
> all Leica codes? ie., and IRZOO, OUFRO, UOOXI, etc. One
> with photos of these things would be very helpful.
> Thanks
> Fr. C
>
> ____________________________
> The Rev'd Charles E Cason Jr
> 1805 Arlington Drive
> Oshkosh, W
Yes, there is a guide called "Leica Accessory Guide" published by Hove
Collectors books distributed in the USA by The Saunders Group in New York fax # 716
328-5078
Dave Saalsaa
Newsgroups: rec.photo.technique.nature
Date: 21 Aug 2001
Subject: Re: John Shaw
>I just got Shaw's new book "John Shaw's Nature Photography Field Guide" and
>thought it was great. Very well presented with great examples. I know he's
>got some other books, but do they have information that's in this new book.
>I'm trying to see what other people think of his older books.
Matt, I think John said this book is a replacement for his earlier basic "How
to shoot the big one" books like "Landscape Photography", "Focus on Nature",
"Complete Guide to Professional Field Techniques" etc, which were published
between 1984 and 1994. All of these have different images if you want to buy
them (or check out from a library) just to see his excellent photography, but
he says improvements in autofocus, lens design and smart flashes have changed
the way he works so the new book is definitely more up to date.
Shaw's Business of Nature Photography" tells how to get started as a
professional, from query letters to how to package and caption the slides for
delivery to an editor. Lots of good info in there if you're going to try to
sell some of your work.
Also, "Closeups in Nature" has a more thorough overview of close up techniques
than the 30 or so pages in his new book, but again some of it is a bit dated
now because it was published in 1987 and he said he now works differently in
the field while shooting closeups due to improvements in flash units and
changes in lenses. For example in that book he said the 105 macro was his # 1
lens but today he almost never shoots with it. Still, the basics are there and
if you shoot older Nikon non-AF lenses it's perfect.
I'll be staying at the same small lodge in Alaska next week as Shaw and if I
get a chance I'll ask him what he thinks the essential John Shaw books are.
And what he's working on next :)
Bill
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001
From: "Gary Martens" <gpmartens@home.com>
Subject: Used books
If you're looking for used books on any subject, including Minolta
equipment, there are two very large groups of used book dealers:
Abebooks.com:
http://www.abebooks.com/
Alibris:
http://www2.alibris.com/
Each of these databases/ordering systems represent about 2500
used book dealers in the US and Canada. These are much better
sources for used books than either Amazon or Barnes & Noble.
Fort Worth, TX
From: MZ lingzhou@eesn18.ews.uiuc.edu>
Subject: T'is the time to buy MF books!
Newsgroups: rec.photo.equipment.medium-format
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001
Barnes&Noble; (bn.com) is offering free shipping now.
Wildi's Hasselblad Manual is more than 10 bucks cheaper
than either amazon.com or borders.com. But the latter
two are running a deep discount too, some of the books I
wanted to buy are more than 30% off now!
I'd like to see some suggestions for good MF books
and those on portraiture lighting (not glamour stuff).
On a related note, nature books by the Muench gang
never worked for me. Those LF photos were technically
very sharp but ultimately disappointing because they
failed to evoke emotions. It could be just me though.
The best nature photo book I've seen recently is
"New Zealand: A visual celebration". Stunning, stunning
stuff. One of the best shots were two horsemen set
against a foggy mountain top. Another surprisingly
good book is titled "Japan paradise". It's a book
of some interior and environemntal shots of Japanese inns
but very successful in capturing the tranquility. Mixed
MF and LF, and a lot of low-light work. Quite cheap for
a hard cover book at only $17 at some .com bookstores.
From: ramarren@bayarea.net (Godfrey DiGiorgi)
Newsgroups: rec.photo.equipment.35mm
Subject: Re: Why is Leica so expensive?
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001
Norman Goldberg's column in the old Modern Photography was one of the
best. His book, "Camera Technology, The Dark Side Of The Lens" is
wonderful.
IEEE papers on optics and such are a very good source of solid technical
information.
Beyond that, it's catch as catch can.
Godfrey
rmonagha@smu.edu (Robert Monaghan) wrote:
> ah, okay, who do YOU find useful, interesting people for technical photo
> topics and resources? books? authors? articles? magazines? Inquiring minds
> want to know ;-) bobm
From: "Paul Ferrara" paul@nospam.columbusoft.com>
Newsgroups: rec.photo.technique.people
Subject: Re: Where do I learn about studio lighting?
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001
J.J. Allen's book, "Posing and Lighting Techniques for Studio Portrait
Photography" covers a lot of different light sources, from parabolic
reflectors to 60" umbrellas to collapsible reflectors and combinations of
various sources. It's a great book and has been my bible as I learn
portraiture. It's not a cookbook as Shepherd suggested though.
It sounds like you're well grounded in fundemental photography so the first
and major choice you have to make is whether you want to use monolights or a
power pack and heads. You can always add light modifiers in bits and
pieces. I've been using umbrellas but lately have been working with a 16"
reflector and barn doors.
Lots of luck.
Paul
www.columbusoft.com/photos
Baldy Cotton baldycotton@home.take.thespamout.com> wrote
> I'd like to set up a small portrait studio.
> I have Pentax 6x7 with an assortment of lenses and filters, a sturdy
> and a Minolta Autometer
> IV. I've shot 35mm for about 15 years and everyone loves blah, blah,blah.
>
> I've done about a dozen (small) weddings successfully, lots of b&w;
printing, zillions of slides etc,
> so I'm not really a pro, but an very experienced amateur.
>
> The one area I'd really like to learn now is studio lighting. I've done
some b&w; studio work with
> make-shift lights using everything from candles to bug lights to sunlight
filtered fthrough a sheet,
> but I'd like to learn the real thing.
>
> It seems there are as many lighting choices as there are 35mm camera
bodies. Prices from very cheap
> to very expensive. I can spend a grand if I have to, but I need to know
where to start.
>
> Can anyone recommend the best books or videos that I can use to learn
studio lighting?
> Do any manufactureres have web sites that teach?
> I need a good place to start.
> Can anyone help?
>
> Dave
From: "Brian Ellis" bellis60@earthlink.net>
Newsgroups: rec.photo.equipment.large-format
Subject: Re: Eliot Porter
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001
The current issue of "Aperture" contains an essay about Porter. There is a
photograph of him in which he is shown holding what looks like a Linhof
Technika 4x5 camera. The book "Dialogue With Photography" (probably the
single most interesting photography book I've ever read) includes an
interview with Porter, in which he says he started out with a Leica in the
1920s but around 1935 he purchased a 9x12 Linhof. In the same interview he
says that Alfred Stieglitz recommended that he buy a Protar lens and he may
have followed through on that suggestion but there's no other information
about the lenses he used. He seems to have used the Linhof for his bird
photographs (!) and he discusses some electronic flash equipment that he had
made for the bird pictures but doesn't go into any detail. When asked what
camera he was using in the 1940s he just says "a view camera," which
presumably was the Linhof.
"Barry Cochran" cochranbe@webtv.net> wrote
> Does anyone know the equipment, camera and lens or lenses, that Eliot
> Porter used to make his color photographs. I have several books of
> his photographs but there is no mention of the equipment he used. I
> know it was large format.Thanks
>
From: ramarren@bayarea.net (Godfrey DiGiorgi)
Newsgroups: rec.photo.equipment.35mm
Subject: Re: Leica-Konica incompatibility?
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001
Discussions of coefficients of expansion and such are red herrings.
Engineers designing and building cameras know their materials and how to
construct high precision devices.
Modern motor vehicle engines today are frequently manufactured with many
tolerances in the sub-.001" range. Cameras and mechanical watches require
higher precision tolerances than that. Read "Camera Technology - The Dark
Side of the Lens" by Norman Goldberg. There are a lot of details to the
discussion of focus tolerances, back focus and film flatness.
Godfrey
ChrisQ lightwork@aerosys.co.uk> wrote:
> Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
>
> >
> > Tolerances for back focus and film plane alignment are usually in the +/-
> > .0005-.001" range (to account for film curvature) even on relatively
> > inexpensive cameras.
> >
>
> Need to be convinced. Any documentary evidence of that or links ?.
> Even to provide tolerances of +/- 1 thousandth of an inch, (0.001"),
> is difficult in production and would be degraded by the expansion and
> contraction of the material with temperature ....
[snip]
To: rmonagha@mail.smu.edu
Subject: Third Party Lenses and Spiratone
From: jspira@basex.com
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001
Hello
I've just come across your Web site and wanted to tell you personally how
pleased I was to see the extensive coverage of Spiratone and related brand
(Accura) lenses.
I'm not certain how frequently you update your page, but there seemed to
be a running question re the provenance of some Spiratone lenses.
We owned the Sun brand in the United States and worked extensively with
Sun (Japan) in design and optical technology. Frequently, we marketed
those optics manufactured by Sun as Spiratone Sun brand XX lens.
We did not own our own optical factories, but did sub-contract out our
manufacturing to various other prominent Japanese manufacturers.
Accura was a brand developed for wholesale distribution. Some products
were the same as Spiratone; others were close but not identical so as not
to cause confusion in the marketplace.
My father and I have just completed a book, "The History of Photography as
Seen Through The Spira Collection" which covers photography from its
pre-history to the digital and filmless age. The book was just published
by Aperture and is to be on store shelves by November.
Best.
/s/ Jonathan Spira
Photo Historica LLC
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001
To: hasselblad@kelvin.net
From: Bernard Ferster b.ferster@att.net>
Subject: [HUG] B&H; Digital Source Book
I have just received the B&H; Digital Source Book. It is chock full of all
sorts of useful information and,alas, for there are no wealthy
photographers, mouth watering stuff of all kinds. B&H; did a great job in
assembling this book.
One of the most interesting gadgets is the Kodak back for the Hassy, the
DCS Pro Back Plus. Sixteen Megapixels! All sorts of magical features!
Have any of you had hands-on experience with this? The entry in the B&H;
Digital Source Book claims that it is useable in "location" applications. I
would want to use it "in the field", literally, for landscape and wildlife
photography. Will it function easily out of the studio?
B.F.
From: spiegelcontax@aol.com (Dr. Alexander Schulz)
Newsgroups: rec.photo.equipment.35mm
Subject: History of early Zenit cameras
Date: 21 Oct 2001
After having published a book on the Pentacon/Contax SLR cameras, I am
now researching on the early Zenit cameras with M 39 screw mount. For
this reason I need historical material, especially about the designers
of the camera, namely N. Marienkov, but also about other people,
involved in this camera type.
Therefore I would appreciate it very much, if anybody would furnish me
with biographical details or other data about the designers of the
Zenit cameras.
Alexander Schulz
From: "Oliver Bryk" oliverbryk@home.com>
To: "HUG" hasselblad@kelvin.net>
Subject: [HUG] Grain etc.
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001
IMHO "Image Clarity: High-Resolution Photography" by John B. Williams, Focal
Press 1990, ISBN 0-240-80033-8, is the best book explaining the factors that
affect photographic imaging, their interaction and contribution to lack of
sharpness. AFAIK the book is out of print.
In my copy of the book I found a print-out of an e-mail from Hasselblad that
responded to my query about the CoC used for DoF markings. It is 60 microns.
"The indications on the lens barrels are theoretical distances for different
apertures for a lens without other lens errors. This means that diffraction
effects is (sic) also not included. Our recommendation is to take the
indicated depth-of-field with some care. If you need good quality we
recommend you use only half the indicated DOF. For example if you use
aperture f/11 you should consider DOF for aperture f/5.6 as good quality."
"good quality" strikes me as a bit too modest for some of the finest lenses
in the world...
Oliver Bryk
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2002
To: rollei@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
From: Richard Knoppow dickburk@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: [Rollei] Re: Dynar lens?
you wrote:
>Richard Knoppow wrote:
>
>
>> Both Harting and Eder are quite critical in their evaluation of
>> non-German lens designers. Harold Dennis Taylor is the only one they have a
>> healthy respect for. Interesting.
>
>Even more interesting: Taylor was supposed to have forsaken calculations and
>designed the triplet virtually exclusively with bench work!
>
>
>Eric Goldstein
>
Taylor wrote a classic book on lens design using entirely algebraic
methods rather than ray tracing. Kingslake comments on the difficulty of
actually designing a practical lens by this way.
I don't have Taylor's book but I will have to try to find it. I think
Kingslake is quoting from it when he talks about finishing the design by
the use of actual models made up in an optical shop. This procedure was
used by other designers before computers made thorough evaluation of
proposed designs relatively easy, but, from what Kinglake implys, Taylor
went resorted to modeling at an earlier stage than usual because he
eschewed ray tracing.
The book for others who might want to search for it is _A System of
Applied Optics_ H. D. Taylor, 1906, London, Macmillan.
I suspect its a rara avis.
----
Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@ix.netcom.com
From: tony@silent-symphony.com (Tony)
Newsgroups: rec.photo.misc
Subject: New Book of UW Photos
Date: 8 Jan 2002
I've recently published a collection of marine images titled Silent
Symphony. The book was awarded first place at the Antibes Festival of
Marine Images. Some of the photos are online at
www.silent-symphony.com
Please take a look if you're interested in unique marine life
Tony
From: largformat@aol.com (Largformat)
Newsgroups: rec.photo.equipment.large-format
Date: 08 Jan 2002
Subject: Re: Text book or other info for LF
>Subject: Text book or other info for LF
>From: "Ed Margiewicz" edmarg1@home.com
>Date: 1/7/02
Hello,
Can someone please recommend a book or place I can start to learn the
mechanics of using a large format camera. I bought a super speed graphic
( and a new rodenstock 150mm lens) a few weeks before I took a trip and did
not have time to learn how to use the front movements. So far I don't see
much difference betw the 4x5 and 6x6 prints (16x20). Any comments
appreciated.
Thanks
Ed M
>>>>
There are two books I recommend
User's Guide to the View Camera by Jim Stone
Using the View Camera that I write for Amphoto
either are avai,lable from Amazon.com
Leslie Stroebal's book has a lot of info but can be more tedious to get
through. His book is called View Camera Technique and is also available from
Amazon.com.
Jack Dykinga has a new book from Amphoto called Large Format Nature
Photography. It is sepcifically geared to landscape photography.
steve simmons
From: daba@acay.com.au (D Barry)
Newsgroups: rec.photo.equipment.large-format
Subject: Re: Refrerence needed to learn LF Photograpy
Date: 11 Jan 2002
"Ed Margiewicz" edmarg1@home.com> wrote
> Can anyone recommend a book or reference to learn about large format
> photography, specifically why and how to use the movements.
> Thanks in advance,
> Ed M
Also check out:
Leslie Stroebel's "View Camera Technique", published by Hastings House
, NY
The Kodak "Book of Large Format Photography", publication no. O-18e
The Large Format A handbook on the Sinar System [emphasis on the Sinar
brand cameras] , by Carl Koch, J & C Marchesi and
also by Sinar - through their distributors - a series of 5 books on
different aspects using the large format. The volume "Basics and
Applications" probably most relevant to your question
D Barry
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001
To: rollei@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
From: Marc James Small msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Subject: [Rollei] Conrady and Kingslake
Thanks to the proddings of Richard Knoppow, I dug out my copy of AE
Conrady's APPLIED OPTICS AND OPTICAL DESIGN. The first volume is as
Conrady wrote it -- but the second volume was edited from Conrady's notes
by one Rudolf Kingslake and was dedicated by his wife, Hilda, to the memory
of her father.
Volume II, incidentally, is the killer -- Conrady's thoughts on symmetrical
and unsymmetrical camera lenses are outstanding.
Thanks, Richard!
Marc
msmall@roanoke.infi.net
Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2001
To: rollei@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
From: Marc James Small msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Subject: [Rollei] Prochnow
Rei Shinozuka wrote:
>which of the prochnows are the seminal works? i see report 1, 2, 3, &c.;,
>plus the technical report. i have his rollei 75 years book.
>
>i also have the evans, which despite its garish dustjacket, is
>informative.
These are all necessary references:
Prochnow, Claus. Rollei Report 1: Franke & Heidecke Die ersten 25 Jahre.
Stuttgart, Germany: Lindemanns Verlag, 1993. ISBN: 3-89506-105-0.
Prochnow, Claus. Rollei Report 2: Rollei-Werke Rollfilmkameras 1946 bis
1981. Stuttgart, Germany: Lindemanns Verlag, 1995. ISBN: 3-89506-118-2.
Prochnow, Claus. Rollei Report 3: Rollei-Werke Rollei Fototechnic 1960 bis
1995. Stuttgart, Germany: Lindemanns Verlag, 1995. ISBN: 3-89506-141-7.
Prochnow, Claus. Rollei Report 4: Rollei-werke rollei Fototechnic 1958 bis
1998. Stuttgart, Germany: Lindemanns Verlag, 1997. ISBN: 3-89506-170-0.
Prochnow, Claus. Rollei Report 5: Rolleiflex SLX und 6000 Report.
Stuttgart, Germany: Lindemanns Verlag, 2000. ISBN: 3-89506-183-2.
Prochnow, Claus. Rollei Technical Report. Stuttgart, Germany: Lindemanns
Verlag, 1996. ISBN: 3-89506-156-5. =20
While this is a nice-to-have:
Prochnow, Claus. Rollei 35, Eine Kamera-Geschichte. Stuttgart, Germany:
Lindemann's Verlag, 1998. ISBN: 3-930292-10-6=20
Marc
msmall@roanoke.infi.net
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002
To: hasselblad@kelvin.net>
From: Henry Posner/B&H; Photo-Video henryp@bhphotovideo.com>
Subject: [HUG] Re: Starter Studio Lighting
you wrote:
>I didn't know much about studio lighting, so I picked up a pretty helpful
>book. It's called, simply, "Learning to Light" and the authors are Hicks and
>Schulz.
It's ISBN 0-8174-4179-4.
--
regards,
Henry Posner
Director of Sales and Training
B&H; Photo-Video, and Pro-Audio Inc.
http://www.bhphotovideo.com
From: David.Clark@Walsworth.com
Subject: [Rollei] Re: Photoshop books OT
To: rollei@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001
I agree w/ Bob Shell on Caponigro's book. Marvelous writing if you already
know Photoshop. Artsy-fartsy images. It really is a Master's class with
lots of tips and observations. Not too good as a basic text.
The best book for a photographer to learn Photoshop from is Photoshop 6
Artistry by Haynes & Crumpler. isbn 0-7357-1037-6. This is the manual
Adobe should have included.
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001
To: rollei@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
From: Marc James Small msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Subject: Re: [Rollei] Re: LF Film cassettes (was: light leaks, black chord
Richard Knoppow wrote:
> BTW. R.Kingslake was married to the daughter of A.E Conrady, a famous
>pioneer in optical design and author of a text on optics which is still
used.
Now, I'd not known that tidbit! Conrady's basic text has been available
for years from Dover Publishing and may still be so. It is a fascinating
and most useful work, two volumes crammed with helpful analyses of optical
design as it was in the middle of the last century.
Marc
msmall@roanoke.infi.net
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001
To: rollei@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
From: Marc James Small msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Subject: Re: [Rollei] LF Film cassettes (was: light leaks, black chord
Richard Knoppow wrote:
> I hadn't heard this, when did he die? He must have been nearly 100.
Richard
Maybe the report I heard was in error. There is a report of an interview
with him in the Journal of the International Society for Optical
Engineering from their December, 2000, issue at:
http://oemagazine.com/fromTheMagazine/feb01/spieworld.html
He should be 98 now.
Marc
msmall@roanoke.infi.net
From: "Eric Stral" estral@ekc.com>
Newsgroups: rec.photo.equipment.medium-format
Subject: Re: Good Books on Lighting
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001
Search Amazon.com for Tony Corbel, maybe Corbell. He just released a
terrific book covering the basics.
He is a Hasselblad and Vistec bigot, but he acknowledges that at the
beginning of the book. A real honest guy giving away some of his tricks.
"Matt Clara" mattclara@attbi.com> wrote
> Please recommend some good books on studio style lighting, either for
> portrait work, product shots, or both.
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
From: rrockefeller@hotmail.com (Robert)
Newsgroups: rec.photo.equipment.medium-format
Subject: Re: Good Books on Lighting
Date: 25 Dec 2001
The best book on lighting I have seen thus far is Hunter and Fuqua's
Light, Science and Magic (I do not remember the exact title). It is a
dense read but pays off dividends in understanding how light behaves
and lighting instruments work. It is not a no-brainer cookbook with
diagrams. Armed with this understanding you would be better able to
analyse any picture that you see in the magazines.
The Pro-lighting series by Rotovision is helpful if you understand
Hunter and Fuqua, not so useful if you don't as the photographers
featured do not give away their secrets easily. Knowing that
Photographer A used a softbox here won't help you if you do not know
the properties of the softbox and how it modulates light.
There are many books out there which purport to teach you how to
light. I'd give most of them a miss as they do not really tell you
why. Check out magazines and the books of the master photographers.
If you know light, you will be able to study their lighting techniques
by looking at the pictures. Unless you like lighting in a rigid
formulaic style, read Hunter and Fuqua and then experiment for
yourself.
I also like Gary Kolb's Studio Lighting book and Ross Lowell's Matters
of Light and Depth.
Always helpful to me are the work of cinematographers. Check out
Nestor Almendros A Man and His Camera, Vittorio Storaro's writings in
American Cinematographer and of course the magazine itself. Photo
District News has features on lighting techniques sometimes. You'd do
well to check them out.
From: "Leicaddict" gmtravis3@home.com>
Newsgroups: rec.photo.equipment.35mm
Subject: Re: film processing costs, and hair pulling
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002
The Kodak site has a number of free, downloadable, publications. You can
probably find everything you're going to need there. If not there are a
number of fairly inexpensive books. Check Tony Spadaro's site for
information: http://home.nc.rr.com/tspadaro/
"Joseph Shark" lambchop@burgerstand.com> wrote
> Hi folks,
>
> I can't take the cost of film processing it is driving me to pull my hair
> out of my head, help :0) I bought some black and white film today at b&h;,I
> like the price of the film there. I was checking out film developing there
> at B&H; and some other joints around the city, and could not fathom the
> costs. One place wants $20 for 36 exposure B&W; processing, are they serious?
> I have my color print processing covered, that is done at snapfish, and for
> a very reasonable price. Slides are also covered, I use fuji slide film, and
> they have processing mailers which cost $3.99 at B&H; for that film. B&W;
> though I do not have covered.
>
> I am seriously thinking about doing my own processing. I have never done
> this before. If you know of a good website with all the basic info I would
> need to start this venture, please let me know. Or if you would preffer
> giving me a quick run down of the basic equipment I would need, this would
> also be apreciated.
>
> If you know why film processing is going up, or have ideas, I would be
> interested in knowing this also.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Just hanging around ___,
> \o
> |
> / \ Joseph Shark
[Ed.note: the W&W; CDROM has reportedly a listing for every lens ever in production...]
From russian camera mailing list:
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002
From: Marc James Small msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Subject: Russar
Roman J. Rohleder wrote:
>no M39-lenses but the Russar anymore !! Is
>it named after "M.M.Rusinov"? )
The original Russar was a large format lens designed by Rusinov. It was
quite the rage in Europe in its day. See Wright and Wilkinson's
magisterial LENS COLLECTOR'S VADE MECUM CD-Rom for a nice discussion.
Marc
msmall@roanoke.infi.net
[Ed. note: you may find similar nature topic lists expand your interests?...]
From mushroom photo mailing list:
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001
From: ron.black@kendra.com
Subject: Need some mushroom/fungus names!
As a real novice in the fungus identification department, I would
like to invite someone who has better experience to visit my latest
website, and share your insights on the several images in need of
names! I do enjoy capturing pictures of these things on my walks.
http://anengineerguy.0catch.com/Oct_01/Html/index.htm
Thanks in advance.... Ron Black.
From Mushroom Photo Mailing List:
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001
From: basidium@aol.com
Subject: Re: Need some mushroom/fungus names!
LMuffasaur@aol.com writes:
> I enjoyed your website very much. I too am a novice, a good friend suggested
>
> a book to me that I have found to be extremely helpful in identification. It
>
> is: National Audobon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms, you
> can
> find it at any good book store, I found mine at Barnes and Noble. It has
> hundreds of pictures and also a description cross reference. I've found that
>
> almost all fungus I have found has been listed in this book. Good Luck and
> enjoy.
Lincoff's book (mentioned above) is a fine volume, though a number of the
photos are not of the mushrooms described. Roger Phillips' "Mushrooms of
North America" is a good book to have, also with untold hundreds of photos
and descriptions. The Peterson field guide to mushrooms is also good, if
you don't mind drawings rather than photos. West-coasters will find David
Arora's "Mushrooms Demystified" exceptionally, helpful, and those in the
Northeast ought to check out mine and the Bessette's "Mushrooms of
Northeastern North America."
With advance apologies, I must say that when I hear someone say "almost all
fungus I have found has been listed in this book," or for that matter any one
book, I have no choice but to presume that the speaker is not reading the
descriptions adequately, but rather is forcing the "pegs" (the specimens)
into the book's "holes" (the descriptions) rather than ensuring a precise fit
therein. With an estimated 10,000 species of mushrooms on the continent and
many species still not yet named, no single book is going to cover a majority
of the mushrooms you will find.
Best wishes,
David W. Fischer
Coauthor, "Edible Wild Mushrooms of North America" and
"Mushrooms of Northeastern North America"
http://205.188.137.185/mycology/
From russian camera mailing list:
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001
From: "Per Backman" pbackman@algonet.se
Subject: Re: chinese cameras in m42
Kelvin Lee wrote:
>I'm just wondering... did the Chinese ever build any cameras in the M42
>screwmount?
Probably not. According to "Cameras of China" (Douglas St.Denny, I do not know
how reliable it is, but it sells for o2.99 at Jessops), they all used
bayonet mounts or Zenit 39mm. Chenguan used a 45mm (!) screw mount.
Per B.
From zeiss interest group mailing list:
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001
From: Marc James Small msmall@roanoke.infi.net
Subject: Re: Kievs (was Stupid Question)
Mark Langer wrote:
>Does anyone know if the 20mm Russar actually exists in Kiev mount? I've
>only seen in it LTM.
One is illustrated in Wright & Wilkinson's LENS COLLECTOR'S VADE MECUM
CD-Rom. This is the only hard evidence that I have for the existence of
such. I believe both Yuri Boguslavsky and Nathan Dayton deny that the
Russar was regularly produced in Kiev RF BM.
Marc
msmall@roanoke.infi.net
Exakta Obscurities Reference Book Cover
Photo courtesy of Gary Cullen - thanks!