Leica Reflex Photography

By Brian Bower

Book Overview

This is a revised and updated edition of an established guide and reference for Leica SLR (single lens reflex) camera users. Covering the Leica R8 and other cameras, lenses and accessories introduced... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0715399039
• ISBN13: 9780715399033
• Release Date: May 1992
• Publisher: David & Charles Publishers
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.6" x 8.9" x 0.7"

Customer Reviews

Unusually good camera book with terrific pictures

Brian Bower's introduction to the Leica reflex cameras is unusual among books dedicated to a specific camera system because it does not just regurgitate the instruction books. Indeed, the buyer of a used camera will not find any camera-specific instructions in "Leica Reflex Photography," just well written and very good guidance on choosing cameras, lenses, and accessories and equally good (but short) chapters on close-up work, landscapes and nature, and most other topics in photography.The author's pictures are top-notch, and very well reproduced -- well worth the entire price of the book. A careful study of the pictures and of the lenses used to make them is more revealing about the proper choice of lenses for an SLR outfit than any words could be. Users of any system camera should take a good long look!The tables of characteristics of every lens ever made for the Leica-R and Leicaflex cameras will help photographers on a (Leica-sized) budget shop wisely for used equipment.Anyone who owns a Leica SLR or who thinks he or she might want to own one, ought to have this book on the shelf.