Over 450 color images, plus never before published images provided by the George Eastman House collection, as well as images from Ansel Adams, Howard Schatz, and Jerry Uelsmann to name just a few The role and value of the picture cannot be matched for accuracy or impact.

This comprehensive treatise, featuring the history and historical processes of photography, contemporary applications, and the new and evolving digital technologies, will provide the most accurate technical synopsis of the current, as well as early worlds of photography ever compiled. Highly detailed descriptions, the core concepts and facts relative to anything photographic.

This Fourth edition of the Focal Encyclopedia serves as the definitive reference for students and practitioners of photography worldwide, expanding on the award winning 3rd edition.

Searchable CD-ROM containing full contents of the book.

Full color throughout and highly illustrated

World wide industry leaders contributing

The most comprehensive technical encyclopedia of photography, produced by the by the largest body of practicing experts ever published.

"A huge volume of knowledge, we would call this book no less than a bible... it is something to be studied and not simply read. Every serious photographer should have a copy of The Focal Encyclopedia of Photography, and anyone who is genuinely interested in learning, will find himself going over its pages again and again."--Better Photography

This edition contains information on advances in the Silver Halide Photographic Technology Timeline 1829-2005, and in the Digital Technology Advances Timeline.