Kodak Professional Photoguide (6th edition) [Spiral-bound]

KODAK (Author), Debbie Cohen (Author)

Book Description

Series: Publication | Publication Date: December 31, 1998

Ready, aim, shoot! With this convenient, professional photoguide by your side, you'll always be prepared to take your best pictures, no matter what situation confronts you. Just open up the easy-to-read, lay-flat spiral notebook to find complete information on color and black-and-white films, film care and storage, exposure, filters, flash, and lenses. It will take just an instant to turn to the section you want, thanks to brightly colored and labeled tabs for each chapter. Best of all, it's put together by the most trusted name in the business: Kodak. Want the full picture on what's inside? * Complete charts for all Kodak films--one for prints and one for slides and transparencies--with a description of the intended uses, and ISO speed and filter for daylight, tungsten, and photolamp. * Facts on caring for film, avoiding static electricity marks, using exposure meters, and calculating lighting ratios. * Dials to help you figure out speeds and lens openings for existing-light subjects; which filters to use; flash exposures; focal length; optical equations; and depth of field for normal, wide-angle, and telephoto lenses. * How to care for lenses and which supplementary lenses to try. The 6th updated edition is the one volume you'll need! 56 pages (all in color), 6 x 8 1/2.

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 56 pages
• Publisher: Sterling; 6th edition (December 31, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0879857986
• ISBN-13: 978-0879857981
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #193,912 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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74 of 75 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you're a serious amateur photographer, buy it., October 5, 1996

By A Customer

This review is from: Kodak Professional Photoguide (Paperback)

For any serious amatateur photographer (and I can't say about professional photographers, because I'm not one), the Kodak Professional Photoguide is indispensible. It's seven tabbed chapters take one quickly to reference materials on every techinical subject concerning picture-taking to which you would need to refer. For instance, the chapter entitled "exposure" contains detail information on every metering technique except the Zone System, as well as containing handy tables on, for instance, ISO film speeds in 1/3 stop intervals, lighting ratios, exposure correction for leaf shutters, and an existing light dial that gives standard exposure times for a variety of hard to meter situations (i.e. moonlit landscapes). If you don't know what any of the above topic are, then the book is too advanced for you. Order Ansel Adams triology (The Camara, The Negative, The Print) and Hornstein's books, read them, then buy the Kodak Professional Photoguide. The only draw backs to the Photoguide are: (1) the descriptions of film are exclusively for Kodak film. Kodak could be a little more ecumenical on this subject; but they are in the business of selling Kodak film, so this is forgiveable; & (2) the 5th edition dates from 1995 and the film information is in fact getting a bit stale. Kodak has introduced not only its APS line of film since 1995, but several new ektachrome films as well as Royal Gold 200 and discontinued a couple of films described there...this, however, is no reason not to buy this book.

49 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Top Notch Reference for serious photographers, December 2, 1999

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Ahmed Badr - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kodak Professional Photoguide (6th edition) (Spiral-bound)

This is the only book I always keep in my photo case. An excellent technical reference. Whenever I find myself scratching my head trying to figure out how to expose for a scene I find the answer in this book. Beside all the usual technical stuff it's full of charts and dials that lets you find out stuff like depth of field and how to expose in near darkness. The best thing I like about this book is that is quiet small (fits perfectly in my photo case) and the inside of the last cover is a Grey card. Neat.

29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very technical and helpful in the field, December 5, 2000

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Darren Chong (Singapore) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kodak Professional Photoguide (6th edition) (Spiral-bound)

This is a very technical book, those dipping into photography as a beginner will really yawn fast. In short not for learning but as a technical reference.

Excellent information on everything I can think of, data tables, charts, dials, formulas. In fact got me learning new stuff on light metering and exposure.

An initial problem is that the filters are referred in Kodak terms and Wratten, eg 20B, 30R, 20C etc...kinda confusing at times, I still don't quite it much of the time (too lazy perhaps) but minor glitch. One other thing is, read it before you go for the trip! Can really get messy if you need info in a hurry. Really thoughtful that a gray card is included but I prefer the neat idea that the Nat. Geographic Field Guide team did; inside covers acting as gray cards! cool.

Saying it as a field guide would be a bit of overstatement, at least for my purpose. The cover is so thin and binding so flimsy that I wonder what the publisher and author are thinking. I had to reinforce it with tapes and thick cardboard, maybe some wont need it but people like me who carry the camera in a watertight bag in one hand and go backpacking might just need to do these. I wish it's smaller (thicker is not a problem) but alas, one can never please everybody...

Get this book, even if you think you won't need it (like me), you might just learn new tricks never thought of or come across your mind.