Re: There are a lot of mistakes in this IR photography book!

[Jeff Spirer <jeffs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:28 PM 11/8/97 -0500, George L Smyth wrote:
>Elton N. Kaufmann - Cycloid Fathom Group wrote:
>> 
>> I have been involved in the publication of a great many magazine articles
>> and books in technical fields and I know of no publisher that would just
>> print what the author submits without having the copy reviewed by
>> independent experts for factual accuracy.
>
>Well, Shutterbug magazine comes to mind.  About a year and a half ago they
published
>an article on color infrared photography where the author went on about
the heat
>emanating from a person's body.  As a matter of fact, they bolded it and
repeated it
>in a separate area as a tickler to read the article.  I wrote Bob Shell
and pointed
>out the perpetuation of this falacy.  He told me that they caught the
mistake too
>late (?) and the publisher refused to allow a retraction in the subsequent
issue. 
>It's a good thing I don't subscribe to that publication.

The really scary thing is that the photographs are even worse than the
articles they accompany (Woody Walters' work excepted.)  The pointless
photos for their Ilford SFX introduction article would never make one want
to use the film.  And they had an article about food photography with
pictures that would create a wave of anorexia if they appeared in a cookbook.


Jeff Spirer
Axiom/Material
http://www.hyperreal.org/axiom/
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