Item #91059 Sangaku Shashin no Utsushi Kata 山岳写真のうつし方 [How to Shoot Mountain Photos]. author Nukada Hayashi 額田敏.
Sangaku Shashin no Utsushi Kata 山岳写真のうつし方 [How to Shoot Mountain Photos]
Sangaku Shashin no Utsushi Kata 山岳写真のうつし方 [How to Shoot Mountain Photos]
Sangaku Shashin no Utsushi Kata 山岳写真のうつし方 [How to Shoot Mountain Photos]
Sangaku Shashin no Utsushi Kata 山岳写真のうつし方 [How to Shoot Mountain Photos]
Sangaku Shashin no Utsushi Kata 山岳写真のうつし方 [How to Shoot Mountain Photos]
Sangaku Shashin no Utsushi Kata 山岳写真のうつし方 [How to Shoot Mountain Photos]

Sangaku Shashin no Utsushi Kata 山岳写真のうつし方 [How to Shoot Mountain Photos]

Item #91059

Sangaku Shashin no Utsushi Kata 山岳写真のうつし方 [How to Shoot Mountain Photos]

Nukada Hayashi 額田敏, author

Showa 7 昭和7 [1932]

Genkōsha (GKS) 玄光社, publisher

Hardcover volume 19 x 13.5cm is bound western-style and opens Japanese style. Front cover is two-toned cloth binding (white/ gray-blue) while the rear cover is gray-blue with an embossed design of 2 offset squares with a small circle between them. Title in silver on binding. 294+pp. with photo illustrations and Japanese text throughout. Housed in a case 9.5 x 14cm with a design that incorporates title, author and publisher.

Sangaku Shashin no Utsushi Kata 山岳写真のうつし方 [How to Shoot Mountain Photos] was written and photo illustrated by Nukada Hayashi 額田敏 (1892-1980). The book opens with a Title page followed by a Profile of the author, describing him as an alpinist, scientist and writer, traveling from research lab to mountain to lab again. A Preface by Toshio Fujishima 藤島敏男 follows, with continued preliminary text and then a Table of Contents on 11-18pp. Topics include: Photography Equipment 写真器, Styles of Mountaineering and Camera Selection 登山の形式とカメラの選択, Types and Characteristics of Cameras カメラの種類と特徴, Lens Focus レンズの焦点, Lens Brightness レンズの明るさ, Depth of Focus 焦点深度, Filters フィルター, and others.

[18] pages of black and white photography of mountains numbered 1-40 with locations underneath are then followed by 294pp of text. On those pages with two photos, the photos are marked A and B. Colophon with a lavender and gray publisher's stamp and red hanko is laid down on the page facing the final page. [2]pp of publisher ads follow.

Some dust staining to rear cover and rubbing at edges of covers. Unusual and important volume in the development of photography.

Price: $85.00

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