I have the 1942 version and the 1966 (Mees/James) version. My 1942 version is also a library version. I paid $7.50 for it about ten years ago.
Jim On Apr 1, 2008, at 5:52 PM, Richard Knoppow 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 stillfilm) 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= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = ====================================================================== To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.
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