The Manual of Photography is the standard work for anyone who is serious about photography - professional photographers and lab technicians or managers, as well as students and enthusiastic amateurs who want to become more technically competent. The authors provide comprehensive and accessible coverage of the techniques and technologies of photography.
The Manual has aided many thousands of photographers in their careers. The ninth edition now brings this text into a third century, as the first edition dates from 1890.
Major new updates for the ninth edition include:
Coverage of digital techniques - more emphasis on electronic and hybrid media
Greater coverage of colour measurement, specification and reproduction - illustrated with a new colour plate section
Dealing with the fundamental principles as well as the practices of photography and imaging, the Manual topics ranging from optics to camera types and features, to colour photography and digital image processing and manipulation.
The authors write in a reader-friendly style, using many explanatory illustrations and dividing topics into clear sections.
- ISBN10 0240515749
- ISBN13 9780240515748
- Publish Date 17 August 2000 (first published 14 September 1988)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 7 April 2011
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint Focal Press
- Edition 9th New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 496
- Language English