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

[Larry Bullis <lbullis@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>I've got only one Amphoto book.  I can't recall the authors name, but it
>purports to be a landscape instructional type book.  Yet the photos are
>second rate and the instructions typically consist of: "I attached my
>Canon 70-210 zoom to my Canon AE-1 and exposed for 1/30 sec for the
>trees."  
>
>After reading the IR radiation in the fixer quote, I remain unimpressed
>with Amphoto.
>
>-- 
>
>
>george  :>)

Seeing this, I went and tried to look at what I might have.  It's kind of 
hard to do because we are in a big transition now and the books are in 
piles.

One of my favorite references is the great _Photographic Facts and 
Formulas_ by Wall and Jordan, originally published way back in the 
twenties, if not the teens, by the American Photographic Publishing 
Company.  Of this, I have several copies (I will not be without it) in a 
number of editions, the 1941, 47 and the last, edited by John S. Carroll, 
which was published in 1975.  The imprint is signed "Amphoto".

Other authors include Feininger and Picker (neither of whom I've really 
been excited about).  Titles are a mixed bag.  Lots, as you say, of well, 
maybe practical stuff.  

All of this is history, though.  I'm sure I don't have a single recent 
book from them.  However, they at least have on their record one real 
winner.  So why have they not continued in line with that superb 
precedent?  To me, that is a question that might be appropriate to ask.

Larry Bullis
Skagit Valley College


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