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  <title><![CDATA[The Camera (Ansel Adams Photography, Book 1)]]></title>
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  <default_description>The Camera, together with The Negative  and The Print,  comprise The Ansel Adams Photography Series, a legendary triad of books about photographic technique that has become the most influential &quot;how-to&quot;series on photography ever written. The first edition of this series was completed in the 1950s.  Adams completely revised and updated it just a few years before his death, making it his last word on the technical mastery of his medium. Three generations of photographers have learned how to approach the artistic possibilities of their art form through this seminal series. Now available in paperback, it remains as vital today as when it was first published.  &lt;P&gt; The Camera  covers 35 mm, medium format, and large-format view cameras and offers detailed advice on camera components such as lenses, shutters, and light meters.  Adams' concepts of  &quot;visualization&quot; and &quot;image management&quot; are the philosophical cornerstones of the book. Extensively illustrated with photographs by Adams as well as instructive line drawings, this classic manual belongs on every serious photographer's bookshelf</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1991</original_publication_year>
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ansel Adam's book, entitled, very simply, &quot;The Camera,&quot; is about just that: the camera.  However, it is perhaps the most readable, most in-depth exploration of the camera in its many forms I have ever seen.  I have learned more over the course of about a week from this book than I did from...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73052607">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Adams talks almost as much about how great a photographer he is in this EXTREMELY informative book on the workings of the camera as he does on the subject matter. I felt that reading this book was a lot like taking a class from most highly skilled professionals. They know why they're teaching the cl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6770638">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Camera wasn't an entirely unhelpful resource. There are many chapters devouted to what basically amounts to glorified list-making. A lot on hardware and scant little on technique. Really, I wanted more on technique than what's offered here. I should have known beforehand that the book, which was...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53041472">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Doing research on my new music composition based on the mechanics of the camera]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book years ago when it seemed the ultimate authority on the instruments used to catch light.  It still is.  <br/><br/>Ansel was not a humble nor a quiet man, but he was an extraordinary influence in elevating photography to an Art.  He speaks with confidence, as among the ultimate auth...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34335232">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A must read for any photographer. It describes just about every aspect (except of course the principles of a digital camera sensor) of cameras and how to manipulate them for better pictures.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Anyone who likes photography can start by this book.<br/>You'll get know the different cameras and lenses very well, depth of field and some about framing.<br/> ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A fantastic book that I just finished~!!!!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[brushing up on the technical stuff....]]></body>
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