Item #15177 Manual of Photography. Samuel Reber.

Manual of Photography

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1896.

First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 5" x 7.25", 112 pp, indexed, with two folding plates, many additional illustrations in the text. Ex-Massachusetts State Library, with related markings. Else clean and sound. The author was a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Signal Corps who had used photography for mapping purposes in the far west and Central America and later trained officers on photographic technique. This manual was prepared "to explain in as simple, nontechnical language as possible such of the operations of photography as will prove of value for military purposes." Chapters cover the basics of light and lenses, development, printing, cameras and exposure, enlarging, "photographic topography," and the preparation of cameras for field work.

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