Re: Free chapters on Optics

I had the same problem.

The way I found it was on the lulu sight by searching
in books for "optics"

Chris

On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 03:26:54 -0500, "Rudy Benner"
<newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>The page you have requested cannot be found.
>
>"searust" <u15888@uwe> wrote in message news:579382aaf71b9@xxxxxx
>>I have been looking for a book that gives a basic background of
>>photography
>> as a science and not as an art, and found one of the best books was
>> published in 1868 by Mathew Carey Lea, called "a Manual of Photography".
>> It
>> is still available as a hardcover for a fair piece of change.
>>
>> What I have done is re-publish the book, re-edit and completely re-Typeset
>> the book for readability, and re-draw the engravings in the book for
>> legibility. Not only as a book describing collodion and both wet and dry
>> plate photography, this is a very good book to explore the use of a large
>> format camera and photography as a science, and should not be thought of
>> as a
>> "dated" book at all.
>>
>> I am offering the chapters 5-10 on optics as a free download, as I have
>> found
>> them to be eminently worthwhile.
>>
>> http://www.lulu.com/content /185717
>
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