Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1115056 in Books
• Published on: 1999-08-17
• Released on: 1999-08-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 80 pages

Customer Reviews

Very deceiving!
Technically, Ansel Adams is well known for his "zone system" and his large format cameras, that helped him to get breath-taking pictures, in the artistic sense and also in the technical sense. The large format allowed him to get in his film the tiniest detail and the "zone system", to get the cleanest whites, the deepest blacks and the widest range of gray tones, all in the same picture. Well, in this book you would find the WORST copies of Ansel's plates... I don't know if he used 8x10 plates, but most pictures are smaller than that and they are all printed at 150 dpi!!!!! (I actually measured that, my... printer does 10 times better!!!!). Even worse, the pictures are completely gray!! I was not able to find a single spot of pure white or deep black, just a few gray tones in there! This book is really a bad joke... I also have the 2001 Ansel Adams calendar, that one is well printed, so nobody can lie to me concerning Ansel's printing technique, he is a genius! (Go for the calendar, it's good!) I found in the book (I quote): "This book is independent of, and not authorized by Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust." Of course it is NOT!!! Ansel must be rolling over in his grave! Well, it's true that the book isn't expensive, but what's the point of a bad printed photo book? I still have to read the text, I hope it is worth... Save your bucks... or even better... spend in a well printed Ansel's book!