Technical Book suggestion
Hi,
I'd like to have you advice on a book about the scientific and technical aspects of the photographic process :
Chemistry of image formation...
Developpment chemicals...
Optics...
etc...
Can be the driest book you've ever read, as long as it contains all the information...
And I've got the basics of photography covered with Ansel's Camera, Negative and Print, so i'd like something a little more advanced...
Any online ressource would be welcome also, but i'm really looking for a book...
Thanks
PJ VH
Technical Book suggestion
Hi Jan,
"The Film Developing Cookbook", by S.Anchell and B.Troop, is a good place to begin. It contains references to many other books, journals, and articles on the subject of the photographic process. It is a relatively small book, and it is easy to read. It does not have much info on optics, however.
Technical Book suggestion
Hi Jan
The book of pyro- gordon hutchings
The film deveoping cookbook- Stephen Anchell Bill Troop
the darkroom cook book - stephen anchell
creative elements - eddie ephraums
zone V1 news letters -three binders- fred picker
The compact photo lab index-ernest pittard
the focal encyclopedia of photography
post exposure -ctein
The permanence and care of colour photographs - Wilhelm
Tim Rudmans books x3
Phil Davis also has published very good technical manuals
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"The permanence and care of colour photographs - Wilhelm "
And that's free online as a giant PDF
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Thanks,
I already had my sights on the Anchell and Troop Cookbook, so i guess that this is where i'm going to start...
I'll comb through Amazon for your other suggestions, bob...
Any others ?
I'm sure I'm not the only one interested in understanding what he does when he sploches his films and prints in strange smelly liquids ?
Cheers,
PJ
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Photographic Materials and Processes by Leslie Stroebel and coll. Mine is from Focal Press 1986 there could be a newer edition. 585 pages.
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try this one: _Photographic Materials and Processes_ by Leslie Stroebel, John Compton, Ira Current and Richard Zakia. Focal Press, ISBN 0-240-51752-0.
I used this as a textbook in college and can guarantee you it's a dry technical read, but it's all in there. Stroebel's "View Camera Technique" is another good one, along with his book on Visual Perception in photography.
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Two complementary volumes:
Photographic Materials and Processes
Leslie Stroebel, John Compton, Ira Current, Richard Zakia
Focal Press, 1986
Applied Photographic Optics
Sidney Ray
Focal Press, 1988
These are the editions I have - you should check whether revised editions have since been released. Certainly for the materials and processes book, if a revised edition hasn't been released by now I doubt there will ever be one.
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Grant Haist, _Modern Photographic Processing_ (unfortunately out of print, and used copies are costly, but you can find it in libraries or through interlibrary loan).
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This book covers (among other 'very dry' questions ;-) the difficult aspects of image noise in silver halide plates & films.
Mees, C.E.K, and James, T.H., __The Theory of the Photographic Process__ (Mc Millan)