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[pure-silver] Re: A moment of silence, please..

From: "Steve Goldstein" <sgold@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 21:07:19 -0400

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 8:52 PM, Richard Knoppow <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> At 05:40 PM 4/1/2008, you wrote:
>  >Today I received my copy of Mees' _The Theory of the Photographic Process_,
>  >2nd edition, 1963 printing, from a used bookseller in Canada.  It's
>  >in excellent
>  >condition, in fact it looks like it has never been opened except to
>  >paste in the
>  >book plates and loan-card flap.  The copy is very prominently marked
>  >in several
>  >places as belonging to the Reference Library of the National Film Board.
>  >
>  >It seems a sad day indeed that the NFB (yes, I know it's cinema, but
>  >it's still
>  >film) feels they no longer need this volume.
>  >
>  >Sic transit gloria mundi.  At least it didn't end up in the landfill :)
>
>
>       I am a bit puzzled about which edition this is. 1963 is a bit
>  late for the "Revised" edition (not called the second edition in the
>  book), which I believe was published about 1951. This sounds more
>  like the 3rd edition by Mees and James. Mees retired about 1960 or 61
>  and died shortly thereafter. The third and forth editions are larger
>  in format than the original and revised editions.
>       There is a difference in the style of the earlier and later
>  editions. While each section of the earlier ones was written by a
>  specialist the book has a greater sense of unity than the later ones.
>       The science of photographic chemistry was changing very quickly
>  at the time the third and forth editions were written and this may
>  have something to do with it.
>       I find the earlier editions valuable because they have good
>  sections on sensitometery and tone rendition in them.
>
>
>  --
>  Richard Knoppow
>  Los Angeles, CA, USA
>  dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>

Sorry, I said "2nd edition", it's actually marked as the Revised
Edition, Copyright 1954, Fourth Printing 1963.  It has a dark blue
hard binding.  Only Mees is listed on the title page.

steve
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[pure-silver] A moment of silence, please..
From: Steve Goldstein

[pure-silver] Re: A moment of silence, please..
From: Richard Knoppow

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