This all-new edition of the Minolta System Handbook offers the most complete, up-to-the-minute information available on the diversified Minolta family of camera equipment. Overflowing with data, explanations, ideas, and illustrations, each of these two volumes outlines the many facets of the Minolta System that account for its popularity among today's photographers.

What distinguishes this handbook from other camera manuals are many unique features, including:

• Its thorough coverage of the specifications and use of the latest Minolta cameras and their many accessories.

• Its lens directory section, which in itself is worth the price of the entire handbook, for nowhere is so much data on Minolta lenses as logically presented as in these pages.

• Its succinct approach to basic photographic principles and techniques.

• Its in-depth study of photographic seeing, aimed at strengthening the photographer's sense of perception in achieving striking pictorial effects.

• Its innovative suggestions for creative variations in picture-taking techniques, with unusual photographs that further excite the imagination as they illustrate the methods discussed.

• Its introduction to the photographic darkroom, from fundamentals to more exotic processes.

Technical accuracy, based on painstaking research, is the backbone of this outstanding work. From page to page and chapter to chapter, every question you could ever conceive of is answered clearly and completely. Moreover, the book's hundreds of outstanding black-and-white and color photographs, diagrams, and tables augment the text every step of the way for further comprehension.

Yet, perhaps its best asset is its loose-leaf format: designed in this way, it permits continuous updating of material through a special supplement service. This guarantees that the MINOLTA SYSTEM HANDBOOK will never be out-of-date and will always provide the fast fingertip facts that photographers rely upon for success in their work. No matter what Minolta equipment you now own or plan to own, this two-volume handbook will prove to be the most essential accessory you will ever purchase.