Product Description

This new edition is revised to incorporate all the significant changes and recent developments in 35mm photography, including updated information on flash systems, film speed standards, DX coding, zoom lenses, autofocus lenses and the latest advances in compact and automated SLR cameras. There are sections on cameras, film, solving picture problems, including isolating the main subject and photographing at night, tackling special projects such as photographing children, animals and recording electronic images, flash, accessories and special effects. There are easy-reference charts of condensed information on film types, lens fields, zoom lens ranges, filters, flash exposures, selling your photographs and a glossary of commonly-used photographic terms.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #289421 in Books
• Published on: 1993-08-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

Customer Reviews

Good Book!
This book has a lot to offer the newbie into the world of photgraphy.

It contains information on how to take good landscape, portrait, night, sky, close up, pattern, abstracted photos and more.

The section on exposure, explaining the relationship between time and aperture, was very good and i have a very clear picture(no pun intended) on how it all works.

This book will make you a better photographer.

good book
im only a beginner in photography, so i found this book very usefull.

do you know the feeling when you read book and they use abbrviations that you know or understand and you sit there thinking what the hells that all about?
well i do, but this book gives you all the information you need it tells you the full names and meanings in a very good glossary in the back.

an excellent hand book ideal for someone with a hobby or just starting out!!

Good for the complete beginner�. but a bit dated now
I am no beginner to photography so this book turned out to be a bit basic for my needs. It is really aimed at a person who has no prior experience of photography and is wishing to find out what it is all about. In some respect this book is spot on as it provides straightforward advice on the basic techniques needed to take half decent photos. Where this book does fall over, even for the beginner, is that despite being fully revised it has a very dated look to it and some of the photo's used to illustrate techniques etc. emphasise this fact. This dated aspect is also evident in the equipment sections as there is no reference to digital cameras or computer aided manipulation of electronic images. While most beginners to photography would not initially invest in digital equipment it is important that they should be made aware of it and the potential benefits it can bring to the photographer.