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THE "British Journal Photographic Almanac" is one of those books that few photographers can afford to be without. This applies to all those who handle cameras or photographic materials, whether they be amateurs or professionals, interested in pictorial photographs or research involving the use of light-sensitive materials. The volume is published annually and, while much of the contents is little changed from year to year, a series of up-to-date articles forms an important feature of each issue. This year there is an editorial which deals with the development of photography from the days when all photographers started by serving an apprenticeship to learn the technique, until to-day when photography is being used more and more for scientific purposes where a knowledge of the behaviour of photographic materials is a necessary preliminary. The plea is for the professional photographer of the future to learn more of the science of photography and rely less on rule of thumb methods. Is it not even more important that the would-be research worker should be taught more of the science of photography so that he can, should the need arise, use photography intelligently as a tool to assist his research?
The British Journal Photographic Almanac and Photographer's Daily Companion
With which is incorporated the Year Book of Photography and Amateurs' Guide and the Photographic Annual, 1945. Edited by Arthur J. Dalladay. Pp. 388 + 31 plates. (London: Henry Greenwood and Co., Ltd., 1945.) Paper, 3s. 6d. net; cloth, 5s. net.
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The British Journal Photographic Almanac and Photographer's Daily Companion. Nature 155, 710 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155710c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/155710c0