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A very practical book from the author of Adventures with Pinhole and Home-made Cameras
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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.
- PDF 25MB in Landscape Page Setup
- Copyright: John Evans/ photoinnovations.net © 2006
- Language: English
- First Edition
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Description:
Because of its highly specialized nature, Exploring simple lenses is an eBook as a PDF.
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 word count 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, the author:
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.
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This book put my photography on a totally new path. While I eventually came up with my own camera build project and didn’t replicate any of the almost countless builds so far, the book provides the reader with an invaluable amount of information and inspiration. A breath of fresh air and creativity in defiance of sharpness and megapixels. The amount of work John Evans must have put in creating this book is awe-inspiring and the price gives value for money a whole new definition. Highly recommended.
Hi Bernd,
Yes, it’s a great reference!
I bought the book some years ago and like it much.
I also started to work using simple lenses and enjoined it a lot.
Thanks for your work.
Yes, it’s still available and very appreciated by readers. 🙂
is the book still available for purchase, I would like to buy it but since the post is 10 years old I have some doubts.