Focal Encyclopedia of Photography: Digital Imaging Theory and Applications History and Science
The role and value of the picture cannot be matched for accuracy or impact. This comprehensive treatise featuring the history and historical processes of photography, contemporary applications, and the new and evolving digital technologies provides an excellent technical synopsis of the current, as well as early worlds, of photography.

This Encyclopedia, produced by a team of world renown practicing experts, shares in highly detailed descriptions the core concepts and facts relative to anything photographic.

Connected Photographer's evaluation
What can we say? This is an incredibly beautiful book and a fascinating resource. If you can afford the relatively high price, it's a must for any collection.

Focal Encyclopedia of Photography: Digital Imaging Theory and Applications History and Science by Michael R. Prese, published by Focal Press, is 880 pages and has a retail price of $99.95. We give Focal Encyclopedia of Photography: Digital Imaging Theory and Applications History and Science a rating of 4 out of 5.

OUR RATING: 5 of 5

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