Exploring simple lenses
An in-depth practical guide to creative image-making
About the book
'Exploring simple lenses' is a truly comprehensive examination of the fascinating world of shooting with single-element lenses. It features twelve main chapters, twelve appendices, and a glossary. Its highly detailed coverage includes an extensive Gallery section, as well as diverse practical topics, such as construction methods, more than 50 lens assembly 'case histories', and guidelines on basic and advanced exposure control. More esoteric areas deal with image-formation using non-optical household items, and unconventional lens mounting and focusing techniques.
All the photographs use traditional film-based image-capture, with a wide variety of equipment, including 35mm SLRs, 35mm rangefinder cameras, medium format SLRs, medium format rangefinder cameras and large format cameras.
Because of its highly specialized nature, 'Exploring simple lenses' is an eBook on a CD-ROM. The CD contains a PDF with a file size of approximately 25MB. It is supplied in a compact jewel case and includes a set of five specially selected 100 x 100mm neutral density (ND) filters, which provide the ideal way to fine-tune exposure control with simple lenses.
The PDF has been designed in Landscape Page Setup, so each page is presented on the monitor screen as a complete design - you never need to scroll down.
There are 1490 pages, with a total wordcount well in excess of 250,000. The eBook also contains more than 350 photographs, 150 illustrations and 60 summaries of tabulated data.
About John Evans
John Evans is a UK-based photographer and writer with a background in professional photography, publishing and education. His previously published print-medium books include 'Photographic Lighting in Practice' (David & Charles/ Element) and 'Adventures with Pinhole and Home-made Cameras' (RotoVision). John was editor of 'Photo Technique' magazine (Penblade Publishers) during the late 1970s/ early 1980s and has contributed hundreds of articles and regular features to many other magazines. His current activities are all centred on alternative photographic techniques, with a strong emphasis on unconventional in-camera image-formation, rather than post-exposure manipulations.
Other eBooks in the 'Exploring ...' series are in preparation.
The book
§ CD-ROM in jewel case, supplied with five 100 x 100mm neutral density (ND) filters
§ PDF 25MB in Landscape Page Setup
§ Copyright: John Evans/ photoinnovations.net © 2006
§ Language: English
§ Edition: First Edition
