Ansel Adams: The Digicam (The Ansel Adams Images Collection 1)
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Ansel Adams (1902-1984) produced a number of the twentieth century’s most iconic photographic pictures and helped nurture the artwork of images by means of his artistic improvements and peerless technical mastery.
The Digicam–the first quantity in Adams’ celebrated sequence of books on photographic techniques–has taught generations of photographers the best way to harness the digicam’s inventive potential. This time-honored handbook distills the information gained by means of a lifetime in images and stays as important as we speak as when it was first printed.
Together with visualization, picture administration, Adams’ well-known Zone System, and different keys to photographic artistry, The Digicam covers 35mm, medium-format, and large-format view cameras, whereas providing detailed recommendation on digicam elements reminiscent of lenses, shutters, and lightweight meters. Superbly illustrated with pictures in addition to instructive line drawings, this basic handbook belongs on each critical photographer’s bookshelf.
“Adams is a clear-thinking author whose ideas can not however assist the intense photographer.” – New York Instances
“A master-class sort of information from an undisputed grasp.” – Publishers Weekly
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Writer : Little, Brown; Reprint version (June 1, 1995)
Language : English
Paperback : 224 pages
ISBN-10 : 0821221841
ISBN-13 : 978-0821221846
Merchandise Weight : 1.35 kilos
Dimensions : 7.5 x 1 x 9.45 inches
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Prospects discover the ebook informative and helpful for studying about digicam use. They describe it as a terrific useful resource for critical photographers that explains all technical features of images. The photographs are wonderful and totally different from different books. The ebook is sturdy and well-made, with a pleasant look. Nonetheless, some clients discover the textual content measurement too small and troublesome to learn. Opinions differ on whether or not the content material is timeless or outdated.
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Vadim K. –
First step in ascent mastership
This book is first of trilogy of Ansel Adams – one of the greatest aesthetic photography ideologists of 20 century, and this particular edition is the latest, it was edited considering modern tendencies of digital and optics. This book is ideal for neophytes of photography, it explaining all technical fundamentals of photography, including theory and technical aspects, and preparing reader for following parts (negative and print). Book includes very useful intertext system with “links”, glossary, a lot of pictures and schemes. The text of book is very clear, straight and not too “pro” and scientific, even few mathematics formulas are very clear (and I’m not a math person at all). This book is essential to any begginer – film or digital, truly bible of photography that raised more than one generation of photographers. Best present for those who are interested in photography and best guide for those who’s studying (and probably for those who’s teaching as well, to get idea of step-by-step explanation). What is really good about this book that you can always refer to it if you need to clear and refresh any part or formula using glossary or index.
jyrhino –
Ansel Adams makes the technicals of photography easy
Let me start with the fact that I’ve had high school and college classes on photography so I already had some preconceived notions. This book helped change some of those. Mr. Adams works in large format (8×10 I believe), black and white, sheet film. That matters nothing to the education you can get from this book. He starts from the bottom up and explains everything in clear terms, always focusing on how the term or action relates to taking the picture. He could have gone way technical but he stops short and you can tell he wants to teach us to see and to use our tools (whichever ones we use.)If you are new to DSLR photogrpahy, SLR photography or have a loved one who wants to do better at amateur photography, this is the book to get them started. Whether you are a portrait taker, nature photographer, found object, animal or a mix, this book will serve you well, especially those with little or no training. Thanks Mr. Adams! May we all rise to your level of artistic integrity and skill.
FuzzyFocus –
Amazing
Loved this book…cover to cover really enjoyed it
Rajiv Chopra –
A Masterpiece
This book is a classic. On the face of it, you would question the relevance of the book in today’s digital age. However, when I started to read the book, I marvelled at the beauty of the concepts that he outlined, and the clarity with which he explained them.His understanding of the camera, it’s principles, is masterly. His lessons, pithy as they are, on visualisation, are timeless. They are as valid today as when he wrote them, and will be valid tomorrow.The principles of the camera, lenses, depth of field, hyper focal distance etc are valid today as they were yesterday, and his handling of the subject is masterlyFor one, like me, who would like to experiment again with the old cameras, this book its invaluableA masterpiece. A gem
Champlin Gates –
A lot of good information although some of it is outdated.
First of all I must state that I think Ansel Adams was the world’s best landscape photographer.I own 20 of his photo books.I liked this book as the master’s instructions are easy to understand and there are many new photos of the master’s that I do not have in my 20 book collection..I would give the book 5 stars if there was not so much information on film which of course that was all there was when this book was written.It covers all sizes of cameras and a lot about lenses.It also goes into pre visualization which Ansel believed in so much.I find it has helped me in planning to take a picture and to take my time and think things out to what I am taking the picture for.A good read.
Ron –
The evolution of the camera.
There was little new in this book having used Peterson’s Big Book of Photography years ago as a beginner. What I did gain, along with my wife whose family operated a camera store and photography service for many years, was a great, simplified refresher along with many interesting photos by Ansel Adams giving different perspectives such as more foreground, more sky and other techniques. Cameras have changed lot since the book was written so there was a certain nostalgia remembering the many cameras we used over the years and a few moments of sadness that they are mostly now part of history. We love our Olympus OM D 4 3rds but miss my baby Yashica TLR slides. The book is a treasure for camera lovers.
J.Moon –
Fantastic book. Complete explanation of what camera is.
Campinoti Marco –
Un must have per chi è appassionato di fotografia.
ARQ MANUEL HORTA –
Excellent book.
Julius Caesar –
Este libro es básico en una biblioteca de aquellos a quienes les gusta la biblioteca. Es un libro muy citado. Ansel Adams escribió una serie de libros que vale mucho la pena. Este se enfoca en la cámara. Vale la pena si no sabes qué camara comprar además de brindar una introdcción a la fotografÃa y sus conceptos básicos. La forma de explicar es muy simple.A pesar de estar escrito en una era analógica, tiene vigencia y los conceptos se pueden aplicar al mundo digital. A su vez, permite experimentar con cámaras analógicas -algo que en particular me gusta.
Debabrata –
Must have for photography enthusiasts.