[pure-silver] Re: A moment of silence, please..
- From: Richard Knoppow <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:19:22 -0700
At 06:07 PM 4/1/2008, you wrote:
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 8:52 PM, Richard Knoppow
<dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> 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.
That's the good one. I didn't realize they continued to print
it that late.
There some differences from the first edition because of
discoveries made in the interim and the first also has a section on
photographic sound recording which was dropped.
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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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