December 23, 2017
#217
Gentle reader,
This chapter deals with books about camera equipment including all the ancillary items. These are things that can aid and improve the photographic endeavor and experience.
Here are the previous chapters:
As the title implies, this book focuses upon 35mm cameras and equipment. By Michael Busselle, from Amphoto. It came out originally in 1976, this edition is from 1992. More than 500 photos. It is more than just equipment. Techniques are gone into in depth.
In editing these photographs, I discovered that I had two copies of this book and another as well.. By John Holtz, from 1980 this is the 80th printing. It covers 35mm and larger formats. Plus darkroom equipment and much more.
The book below is by Adrian Holloway, a Brit. From 1981, also published in the U.S. More than 2000 illustrations and photographs. It goes into great detail.
Above and below are two of the number of Peteresn's Photographic Library series that I own. Above is #5 and is by Kalton C. Lahue, a famous name in photography. From 1981, it is quite extensive and has photographs showing the effects of many of the devices.
Number 6 in the series and also from 1981 but by Mike Stensvold. The cover photo reminds me of Colonel Bill Arps camera collection most of which was house in glass cabinets with glass shelves. But I digress. Chock full of items and gadgets from the time and prior.
Michael J. Langford produced the excellent book below. With a wonderful, larger-than-life photo of a classic Nikon SLR. A bit larger than if Nikon had done as Pentax did; up-size a 35mm SLR into Medium Format. From 1980 and Ziff-Davis the magazine conglomerate. A thick and heavy book that is crammed with mostly all-color photographs and illustrations. Make one want to go on eBay and find so many things they covered.
Robb Smith is no kin of mine. There is one semi-famous Robb Scott, out there, but his name is opposite of mine. Anyway, this book and the one below are as titled about accessories. Colonel Bill Arps had WAY more accessories than he did cameras (more than 4000 of those!) an example would be a drawer almost four feet wide, three feet front-to-back and a few inches deep FILLED with shoe-mount rangefinders. Anyway, I digress again. This book is also from Ziff-Davis and also 1980. A popular year for these books. Very complete guide by a former managing editor of Amphoto.
Lastly, from Bruce H. Mitton, published in 1981. He goes into great detail and covers a lot of items. Even showed some economical ideas for the budget photographer. Very good book. Another one that prompts one to get onto eBay to find these goodies.
That's it for this chapter, thanks for looking!
Scott
December, 23, 2017
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