luigi bertolotti Posted May 18, 2011 Share #101 Posted May 18, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) It's very similar but not exactly the same. For example in the printed version the serial number of Woody Allens M8 is present (it's not in the download version dated Feb 2010) The sections are in a different order but of course the content is not going to be very different from the online pdf) Ian Does the printed version (i didn't get it) a big number of lens apertures without the decimal point ? (the pdf has colums and columns of "40" "28" "14" and so...) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ho_co Posted May 19, 2011 Share #102 Posted May 19, 2011 Bravo, Luigi! Glad to make sure it wasn't a whole bad run! BTW, it's now official: Mr Puts says the entire edition is sold out. See Blog. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lars_bergquist Posted May 19, 2011 Share #103 Posted May 19, 2011 I have the book. It would have been advantageous if the text had been proofread, preferably by someone who has English as his or her first language. It is nice to have the book, but it contains little that is new. The old man, crawling out from piles of encyclopedias, clutching his blue pen Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ho_co Posted May 19, 2011 Share #104 Posted May 19, 2011 Glad you got it, Lars, after the delivery misadventures! Now we await the revised edition with new lenses included! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vintola Posted May 19, 2011 Share #105 Posted May 19, 2011 Now we await the revised edition with new lenses included! +1 - vintola - Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
UliWer Posted May 19, 2011 Share #106 Posted May 19, 2011 Does the printed version (i didn't get it) a big number of lens apertures without the decimal point ? (the pdf has colums and columns of "40" "28" "14" and so...) Yes, only from 2000 onwards the decimal point is used. I am not sure which historical event might have caused this change. I... It is nice to have the book, but it contains little that is new.... I find novelties everywhere. I just read on page 86, that "The Summaron 28mm f/2.8 (1955) improved upon its predecessor." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
farnz Posted May 19, 2011 Share #107 Posted May 19, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) Yes, only from 2000 onwards the decimal point is used. I am not sure which historical event might have caused this change. ... Y2K? Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luigi bertolotti Posted May 19, 2011 Share #108 Posted May 19, 2011 ..... I find novelties everywhere. I just read on page 86, that "The Summaron 28mm f/2.8 (1955) improved upon its predecessor." We could start a thread on "Erwin's typos"... .... the LAST of the scrutinized lenses (800 f6,3 - pag. 596) has the picture of another Telyt... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
UliWer Posted May 19, 2011 Share #109 Posted May 19, 2011 We could start a thread on "Erwin's typos"... Let's call it: "The Leica Forum proof reading service." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
k-hawinkler Posted May 19, 2011 Share #110 Posted May 19, 2011 Thanks. Please, go ahead. My be you folks can finish that before we get our copies in the US or in even more remote locations? Cheers, K-H. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
veraikon Posted May 20, 2011 Share #111 Posted May 20, 2011 It would have been advantageous if the text had been proofread, Yes, proofreading would be preferable, also a commercial editor. Even me, a master of misprinting and non native speaker, recognises at least one - two typos / page. But we know that Erwin Puts and his last editor had severe differences. From this background I can understand him.* From my home institution I also know the price for a commercial proofreading and editing - you had at least adding 10-12 € /copy. Nevertheless I enjoyed the book , and I think it is a great work, with interesting details. Maybe the last one which gives a complete overview about the Leica System. Thanks to Erwin ! PS: If I remember I´ll reopen this thread in 1-2 years , and I´ll publish the second hand prices at ama.... * As far as I know Richard Nordin had formerly the same editor . He went an other way and engaged "volunteer"** proofreaders (well known experts from the Hassi Community) for his second edition of the Hasselblad Compendium which will be on market in June. ** at least non commercial Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delfi_r Posted May 20, 2011 Share #112 Posted May 20, 2011 I understand that there are some quirks, but it's a limited run. With more encouragement, Mr. Erwin Putts will contact a professional editor to work in the next edition. In 5 years there will be a lot of S lenses, and some new M Lenses and cameras so he will have two reasons to make a new edition and some of us will go for it blindly. I have the first book. I recognise points where Mr Putts has not updated the content and copied it to the new one. I understand that an editor costs money and takes time. Sure, there are some repetitions, some typos, perhaps in every page, some figures are missing, but I love the book. And I'll recommend to all my friends, sure that they will ask for a new edition. And with it there will be room to make some corrections. Perhaps we'll need to think that a private edition is for friends that will help to get a better one. I'm reading it with joy, learning a lot of things where I thought there was nothing new to say, and I'm continuously finding meanings and facts that I wasn't aware in the first book. The optics section is enhanced and there is room for all lenses with their MTF graphs (and yes some of them are missing), event the more obscure have an image, the optical diagram is coloured and you can relate the texts to the data. Perhaps new edition will need two volumes. Time will say. In the meantime I enjoy this one. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
k_g_wolf ✝ Posted May 20, 2011 Share #113 Posted May 20, 2011 It´s >>P u t s<<, Defi_r, not Putts. He is an author after all, and should at least be spelled correctly. Best regards GEORG Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delfi_r Posted May 20, 2011 Share #114 Posted May 20, 2011 It´s >>P u t s<<, Defi_r, not Putts. He is an author after all, and should at least be spelled correctly. Best reagards GEORG My fault!!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
k_g_wolf ✝ Posted May 20, 2011 Share #115 Posted May 20, 2011 No problem, but now we have a spellproblem in this bl ... quote above. My god. Mr. P. has my sympathy, getting along with just a few errors. Best GEORG Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
christer Posted May 21, 2011 Share #116 Posted May 21, 2011 No. I haven't gotten mine yet. But I got my copy of Phaidon's 2nd print run of Chris Townsend's long out-of-stock Francesca Woodman biography in the mail this morning. Well worth the wait. (Antiquarian booksellers have been peddling this book (first edition) for hundreds of euros lately; it will be interesting to see what happens to their prices now.) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DES Posted May 21, 2011 Share #117 Posted May 21, 2011 Got mine yesterday, and it is signed! .(I asked for that) I have to say..despite comments here, it is a very informative book. A hell of a lot of work has gone in to it. Very impressed!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
phaxman Posted May 21, 2011 Share #118 Posted May 21, 2011 I'm in the US - California - and I still have yet to see my copy ... anyone else in the US received theirs yet? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rcoles Posted May 22, 2011 Share #119 Posted May 22, 2011 I am in Virginia USA and have not receiver my copy. Bob Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
k-hawinkler Posted May 22, 2011 Share #120 Posted May 22, 2011 I think we need to give it another week. K-H. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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