Was die meisten Amateur- und manche Fachphotographen nicht wissen: Ein Handbuch praktischer Ratschläge und Erfahrungen

Abstract

THE author finds that amateurs and even expert photographers often fail to take the trouble to understand their work, and are ignorant, not only of the principles upon which it is founded, and which are therefore the only safe guides to its successful application, but also of many simple practical and commercial facts concerning it. So he has prepared this volume in sections varying in length from a line or two to a page or two, each with a conspicuously printed heading indicating the subject treated. The arrangement is exactly the old style of question and answer, except that the question is put in the form of a statement or title, such as “What a landscape lens is,” “When one mav dilute the developer,”and so on. The information is generally of the kind that would be called elementary, tending in parts perhaps to be too superficial, and may be accepted as evidence that even in Germany, where education is so well systematised, the general knowledge concerning so common an applied science as photography is behind the needs of the times. Many convenient and some apparently novel methods are given, as, for example,v to facilitate necessary calculations. A drawback to the book from the point of view of the English reader is that in the lists of makers of different kinds of lenses, sensitive materials, although there are included some little-known German firms, English firms appear to be ignored altogether.