Handbook of Photography (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Handbook of Photography<br><br>The literature on photography abounds with books devoted to the elementary or purely artistic phases of the subject. Few books are devoted to the serious aspects of the technique of the photographic process or to the scientific basis underlying photography and its applications and most of these treat only of some restricted branch of photography.<br><br>This Handbook of Photography was born of the desire of the editors to possess fer their own use a comprehensive authoritative reference work on photography and its technical and scientific applications - a reference text having the directness; rigor and authority Which might be found for example in the various engineering handbooks.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.