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For sale: Mees, The Theory of the Photographic Process, imperfect copy

This book is the definitive book on B&W photographic science. I have attached a table of contents and samples of the many page index. It goes into detail on all aspects of photo theory. It is over 1,000 pages that written by the staff of the Kodak Research Laboratory. There is no other book that describes photographic process with such detail and accuracy. It has been translated into many languages. Later editions were authored by Mees and James, and James and Mees.

The book is a special edition, "Eastman Edition" ©1942 meaning it was for employees of Eastman Kodak. The irony is the book is rubber stamped inside the front cover as being owned by "Chemical Laboratory Film Emulsion Div, Building 30-C" of Kodak. This is where gelatin was used to make emulsions.


This was written before popularization of chromogenic films so it concentrates on BW technology. It has a lot of B&W information that is not in later editions. Huge amount of information. If you know 10% of what is in this book you are an B&W photography expert.

There is an error: It has two sets of the signature pages 5-36 but is missing pages 101-132. The missing pages deal with "The Preparation and Properties of Gelatin". Pages 60-133 deal with this subject so 1/3 of the pages that deal with this subject are missing. The total book is a whopping 1,124pages so only a small portion is missing. Unless you are going to make your own film the gel information is not of much interest.


Bargin price $15 including shipping and PayPal . It weighs 5 pounds!



To buy send me a private message (PM) with your email address for use in communicating; I will provide my email address via PM.

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Books to US addresses are via MEDIA MAIL, USA only.

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Saw this immediately and momentarily considered it. But knowing the APUG membership, I'm fairly certain one or more of you out there might wish to make better use of this reference than my mere curiosity would, so I'll just sit and watch for a while...

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After I told him it took me a long time to develop APX-25, PE told me to look up "after hardening" on page 80...

I didn't think it would be THIS easy for me to get a copy in hand.
 
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After I told him it took me a long time to develop APX-25, PE told me to look up "after hardening" on page 80...

I didn't think it would be THIS easy for me to get a copy in hand.

Keeping it at Kodak Bill :D

The missing pages are available (as is the whole book) here, it's the same edition. Nicer to have an original though. I'm sure somewhere I have a PDF of the earliest version published when Mees & Sheppard were still working in the UK for Wratten & Wainwright.

Mees & Sheppards first book "Investigations on the Theory of the Photographic Process" was published in 1907.

Ian
 
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Waiting for payment from an APUGer in CA 9404X
 

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I love buying used books for just this reason - always neat to see where they have been and where they came from. One of my books (not this one) is stamped "JPL Library" and another stamped "NASA - GSFC Library" which is the closest I will ever get to either of those places. Others have various stamps from Kodak and other places. One copy of Glafkides "Photographic Chemistry" that I have clearly has silver nitrate spilled all over it - wonder what that was about??
 
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This book was listed, paid for, and shipped in 9 hours! THANKS APUG.
 
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