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Leica Darkroom Practice: The Focomat Manual
Seck, Rudolph; Laney, Dennis H, English editor; Davisson, Ursula, translator
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- Prima edizione
Da: Books to Give ~ Books to Love®, Alexandria, VA, U.S.A.Books to Give ~ Books to Love®
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Hardback. Condizione: Near Fine. First. The next step for those who have newly discovered the art of taking film, as opposed to digital, photos is to develop and print the photos themselves instead of sending the exposed film off to a laboratory. One of the more cost-effective ways to do that is to buy used equipment for one's o…wn personal darkroom. But then, how do you learn how to use that equipment? Why, by buying used equipment guides and manuals, of course - such as this one, "Leica Darkroom Practice: The Focomat Manual," published in 1983. The Ernst Leitz GmbH optical company had the revolutionary idea to create a compact camera that would use refined lenses to create small negatives that could be enlarged into large prints in the darkroom; before this, film was the same size as the final image, which meant the cameras that held and exposed the film were even larger, often making them quite heavy and unwieldy. But the Leitz company's resulting Leica line of cameras, which started to be produced in the 1920s, could almost be tucked into a pocket, and before long, their lenses could be easily changed out according to the photographer's needs. In the 1930s, the Leitz company also began producing the Focomat line of enlargers, equipped with other Leica lenses to finish the process of getting the photograph from the snap of the shutter to a frame on the wall or a print waiting for publication. This book guides users not only through the specifics of how to use the popular Leica Focomat equipment, but also about darkroom practices in general. The manual was originally published in Germany since Ernst Leitz GmbH was a German company; the copyright page says this is the "First Edition (English)". The English version was published by Hove Foto Books, a respected British publisher that specialized in technical works for photographers, with different distributors in the U.S. and the U.K. This edition is a casebound book with laminated covers and without dust jacket, as published. The back cover features photographs from the book itself while the front cover is decorated with a more stylized image of a Focomat enlarger. The textblock is still standing up well and is tight and square, with no missing or loose pages. There are no marks or writing on any of the pages, nor any tears or folds. There is some slight shelf wear on the cover, particularly along the top and bottom of the spine, and some wrinkles in the lamination, but overall this is a solid, useful, and attractive copy. Please see our photos for details.
