Our Book Shelf

Abstract

THIS is a small volume, of some 200 pages, but it is full of useful information for working photographers, whether amateurs or professionals. Under nine sections the author treats of all the subjects likely to be required by the manipulator of the camera, from the purchase of his apparatus onward through every detail essential for successful work. The value of the book is greatly enhanced by numerous illustrations, which are executed with that clearness and finish for which so many Continental scientific works are justly to be commended. To give an idea of its contents it will be sufficient to mention the headings of the sections, viz. apparatus for the negative process, photographic objectives, instantaneous shutters, portable cameras, equipment of the dark room, general remarks on exposure, negative processes, positive processes, cyanotype and similar processes. The work, as its title implies, is purely technical, and, as such, does not call for lengthened notice in these columns, but for the particular object with which it has been written it is admirably adapted, and should find many readers in this country. We have nothing which can be compared with it for conciseness and completeness.

Praktisches Taschenbuch der Photographie.

By Dr. E. Vogel, Assistant in the Photochemical Laboratory of the Technical High School of Berlin. (Berlin: Robert Oppenheim, 1891.)