PRING'S PHOTOGRAPHER'S MISCELLANY: Revised and Updated

Learn how to safely photograph a solar eclipse and how to use the contents of your nose to eradicate a scratch on a negative! Find out how ravenous soldiers jeopardised the success of Pigeon-Cam in the First World War, and learn how to take photographs on wood or even apples. Meet the mad, genius, daring and sometimes fraudulent pioneers and practitioners of all things photographic. Discover that the principal of the camera obscura was known in China as early as the 5th century BCE. How did Kodak company get its name? Who invented the Minox Spy Camera? Were there really fax machines in the mid 19th century? What would a photographer use a Mod Podge for? Full of arresting images and exquisitely typeset by the author himself, the book is packed with the origins of the photographer's craft, tip and tricks of the greats, a host of revealing quotes and fascinating trivia. Watch the birdie! 96pp, illus.