The Film Photographer's Handbook - Compose. Develop. Print

Explore your analogue world with adventures in film, photography and motion: how to plan, set up and direct a shoot, then develop, process and print your work.

• Includes a guide to cameras and accessories
• Covers all the techniques you need to become more creative with your photography
• Understand how to find, restore and re-purpose vintage equipment

Learn new skills or explore how to mix your media: be creative, be vibrant, be original!

About the author

Chris Gatcum is a photographer, author, and editor with more than 20 years' experience. As well as the obligatory digital camera arsenal, his camera bag bulges with myriad "old timer" film cameras: from early box cameras to TLRs; large format to pinhole. He is currently modifying an early large-format Speed Graphic to shoot paper negatives.

Chris has written more than a dozen books, across a wide range of camera-related subjects, covering film photography, digital technology, and processing. He is the author of the best-selling The Beginner's Photography Guide, Complete Photography and Mastering Film Photography, among other titles, and continues to work behind the scenes on countless photography book projects for a number of leading publishers.

He lives in Devon, England.

Product details

• Authors: Gatcum Chris, Bavister Steve
• Publisher: David & Charles
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 11.08.2026
• EAN: 9781446317853
• ISBN: 978-1-4463-1785-3
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Photography & photographs, PHOTOGRAPHY / General, Photographic equipment and techniques: general, Photography and photographs, Photography: subject-specific techniques and principles