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My partner's Uncle George is a hoot. He's 89 and loves to trawl charity shops.
He knows I do photography and every now and then he gets me something.
One of the latest is 'The Digital Photography Handbook' by Sion Johnson editor of What Digital Camera published in 1998.
Fun to look through.
Not a mention of Raw files, its all Jpegs and if processing, TIFFs, BMPs and Gifs.
A high end camera is 6 mega pixels and a large image is 1600 pixels of long side.
DSLRs were 'still quite rare' but here is one from the book.
We were going to scan film a lot. Floppy disks were still all the rage.
And a good computer would have a Pentium II processor ( the latest), 128Mb 10ns SDRAM, an 8Gb hard drive.
Many processes which now we just one-click but then were done by 'steam power'.
Lots of stuff about manipulating images, mostly quirky but still some taken as if on a planet with 2 or more suns and also pulling faces.
He knows I do photography and every now and then he gets me something.
One of the latest is 'The Digital Photography Handbook' by Sion Johnson editor of What Digital Camera published in 1998.
Fun to look through.
Not a mention of Raw files, its all Jpegs and if processing, TIFFs, BMPs and Gifs.
A high end camera is 6 mega pixels and a large image is 1600 pixels of long side.
DSLRs were 'still quite rare' but here is one from the book.
We were going to scan film a lot. Floppy disks were still all the rage.
And a good computer would have a Pentium II processor ( the latest), 128Mb 10ns SDRAM, an 8Gb hard drive.
Many processes which now we just one-click but then were done by 'steam power'.
Lots of stuff about manipulating images, mostly quirky but still some taken as if on a planet with 2 or more suns and also pulling faces.
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