The Working Camera
The Working Camera
Hedgecoe, John. Illustrations by Ron Van der Meer. NY: Harmony, 1986. 4to. First edition (with a complete number line). Glazed color pictorial boards.
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Subtitled The World's First Three-Dimensional Guide to Photography Made Easy, The Working Camera displays all the benefits and deficits of a book on photography published in 1986. The basic info on lenses, aperture, depth-of-field, lighting and so on are both very informative and still relevant (particularly for those using SLR cameras), but the lack of information on digital photography and cell phone cameras shows just how far we've come in so short a time. Still, one of the best pop-ups of that era. A first edition (with a complete number line) in Fine condition.