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Pictures in Silver
This is one of the 14 Background Books published for Stage III of the Nuffield Chemistry Sample Scheme. The books were highly illustrated and designed to be attractive. This book describes developments in photography It long before the modern era of digital photography.
The main topics are:
*the importance of photography in science illustrated by astronomy, forensics and meteorology
*early developments in photography
*the chemistry of black-and-white photography
*types of cameras
*the composition of black-and-white film
*image manipulation
*Schlieren techniques
This book was published in 1969 and it concentrates on black-and-white photography in the era of the Instamatic camera.
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