For Sale Ansel Adams New Basic Photo Series, the good edition, maybe free

[darinb]

Is there such a thing as a young person out there with zero money who is struggling to learn photography? Someone who is, for example, paying loan payments on a camera and putting off buying their first car? Printing in a basement on card table with a single 60 watt bulb to expose contact sheets? Someone working some shit job for minimum wage to pay for expensive film and supplies?

In other words, is there a young person out there in the same situation I was in when I was first starting out?

The New Basic Series from Ansel Adams was a rewritten (it desperately needed to be rewritten) version of his classic how-to guides for photographers. These were the books I learned from when I was coming of age in the early 1980s. Later, I moved on to more advanced books and then ten years after looked at the Basic Series again--it was all there. I had just not understood it all!

If there is a person that roughly fits the above description out there, or a school who has students that fit the above description, I will send these books your way for free, and hope they do for you what they did for me. I will pay for the shipping in the USA. They need a good home. (Footnote, I'm keeping my original copies--identical to these. This is a second set I bought.) I don't have "The Print," sorry!

A second person or school in similar straits (note to auto-spellcheck, it is not spelled "straights") can have the Strobel book, View Camera Technique. This is the standard tome, used to be used at RIT, a bit "heavy" compared to the Ansel Book but it's all there, too. Again, free and I'll pay the shipping as well.

Anybody out there?

--Darin

 

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[Kirks518]

Awesome gesture!

I've done the same with camera bodies, and I asked for an '.edu' email address to confirm it's going to a student.

 

[darinb]

Ahhh, but I only "dropped in" to school after I had given up on photography. I've given up several time since then...

--Darin

P.S. there's more stuff coming.

 

[darinb]

Update: There's a high school kid in Canada who could use a set like this, or something similar. No school darkroom, etc. Learning on their own. Shipping to Canada for me is way too expensive ($45), no book rate. I looked at abebooks Canada but prices are outrageous there, compared to US dealers (about triple). Ditto on E-bay. (Maybe I shouldn't think about moving to Canada???)

Anyone have a used set or something similar this young photographer might find useful? I will forward your e-mail to them and you can discuss...

--Darin

 

[Dan Quan]

i'll chip in 10$ for ship to canada

 

[darinb]

i'll chip in 10$ for ship to canada

What a *great* idea! I'll chip in and supply the books and the postage I would have paid anyway ($7 or $8), and then double that--so $15 toward postage for me. Looks like $20 more to go.

--Darin

 

[Bill Burk]

I'll chip in $10 and a copy of "The Print"

 

[darinb]

I'll chip in $10 and a copy of "The Print"

Ahh, now it's a complete set!

Bill, I'll buy you a coffee if you have the time in the next week before I head out, cross-country...

$10 to go...

--Darin

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

Update: There's a high school kid in Canada who could use a set like this, or something similar. No school darkroom, etc. Learning on their own. Shipping to Canada for me is way too expensive ($45), no book rate. I looked at abebooks Canada but prices are outrageous there, compared to US dealers (about triple). Ditto on E-bay. (Maybe I shouldn't think about moving to Canada???)

Anyone have a used set or something similar this young photographer might find useful? I will forward your e-mail to them and you can discuss...

--Darin

Books for some weird reason, are way over priced here... Sorry.

 

[Ashfaque]

Long live APUG and its wonderful members!
Darin: If he needs any academic journal article tell him to contact me via APUG. I'll happily send him as many as he wants to read.

Bests,
Ashfaque

 

[Dan Quan]

are we there yet?

 

[TheToadMen]

If you still need $10 or so, let me know (by PM) and I'll send you a Paypal gift payment.

And while we're at it, could we also muster up a APUG subscription for this kid also??
So he can post his endeavours results here for us to enjoy.

 

[darinb]

Yes, TheToadMen, We are $10 short--thanks for your offer!

A subscription sounds great--how exactly would that benefit the member? (I'm sort of new here).

I'll contact offline the people who offered shipping money. Feel free to keep discussing the subscription idea on this thread....

Thanks to all who participated in our little book-giveaway!

--Darin

P.S. The Strobel "View Camera Techniques" book is still unclaimed....

 

[TheToadMen]

Nice, I'll await your PM

About the subscription: it's $25.30 for one year. As a (paying) member he will be able to see & upload to the galleries for one.
And it might support his learning curve by visiting APUG.

See: (there was a url link here which no longer exists) for a GIFT SUBSCRIPTION.

 

[Dan Quan]

I'm ready to contribute, what's your pp?

 

[Dan Quan]

Sent, and happy to do so!

 

[darinb]

Send PMs to all the people who offered to contribute. Contacted the student, too. Will coordinate with Bill to get "The Print" to add to the package, then will ship.

Thanks again for participating. If you know of a good home for that Strobel book...

--Darin

 

[mehguy]

Hey guys, I can't thank you guys enough for your generosity. It really does help me out.

 

[Dan Quan]

Hey guys, I can't thank you guys enough for your generosity. It really does help me out.

You are very welcome.

 

[darinb]

Just an update: I shipped the books out today, International Priority Mail.

Thanks to Dan Quan for the excellent idea to have the APUG community send the books north and his support, thanks to TheToadMen for helping out with the costs, and thanks to Bill Burk for nor only helping to pay for postage but donating the missing volume "The Print" and dropping it off at my house.

Very cool.

--Darin

 

[rev]

Hope it isn't rude to post something like this in a FS thread... but really cool to see this come together! I've only really lurked here, but had to say this.

 

[TheToadMen]

Hope it isn't rude to post something like this in a FS thread... but really cool to see this come together! I've only really lurked here, but had to say this.

You're welcome ~ and welcome to APUG