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The Focal Encyclopedia of Photography
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Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2014 8:45 am
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http://tinyurl.com/q9jg5fx

Quite a comprehensive ressource.


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I had a copy of this book for years, its about three inches thick. Worth getting an old pre-digital edition cheap. Some members here who don't normally use film will find the answer to every question they may ask!

This one!



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Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2014 9:25 pm
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Thanks Klaus, I've just downloaded it.


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Thanks, Klaus.


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Thanks


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Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2016 3:58 am
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Any links for this still up?
My hardbound version is falling apart.


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Ditto - would be useful. Thanks.


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Posted: Tue May 31, 2022 9:37 pm
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Posted: Tue May 31, 2022 9:37 pm
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It, and many other books, available in different versions on archive.org

https://archive.org/search.php?query=focal+encyclopedia+of+photography&sin=



I did a metadata search rather than text contents search.

https://archive.org/details/focalencyclopedi0003unse 1993 version
https://archive.org/details/aa506_FocalEncyclopediaPhotography 1960 version


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Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2022 12:06 am
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I have an actual multi-volume encyclopedia of photography, like about 20 volumes -- I picked up used somewhere. Probably at a yard sale or maybe a used book store. I don't think I paid much for it. Copyright is probably in the 70s or 80s. But it still has a lot of useful information in it.

I don't recall the name or the publisher off hand. It's in storage somewhere, and I don't know where.

I also have an Encyclopedia Britannica that my parents gave me right about when google started taking off, rendering most all encyclopedias irrelevant. Including photographic encyclopedias.
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