Book La photographie - Edouard Boubat

In these time when everything is automatical and numerical, the first chapters of 1989's Boubat's book make us smile. The precise description of different type of 6*6, 24*36 or reflex photo-camera have a taste of old good time, when, not that long ago, we were still buying Kodak photo films.
As a true pationate, Edouard give us some insight on history of photo, which give a zest of humanity to this book, compared to the technical "how to use your last ADP" current best-sellers.
Beginning by a succint description of some basics : eye, iso, focal, diaphragram... Boubat give some easy reference tables that each one knew when photo was expensive, complicated and impossible to watch on the back of the camera.
Remembering us that photo was an elite activity 20 years ago, he also goes through basic things like accesories and possibles filtres.
All this first part seems outdated at first look, when we can now use photoshop instead of filters.
Curiously, the second part of the book "La prise de vue" seems quite small, fulled of nice pictures as examples.
But as a true artist, he finish re,inding us that :"the photo is not outside of the
photograph, it is in himself, as a pending meeting. The camera best camera could not be magical, it is you who has to be. We are not a photograph only when we take a picture, photography is a way of being".
Ending the 2nd part of its book on these last words, it gives us regret that we do not buy Kodak photo film anymore, and that the 3rd part of the book, about "Laboratory to develop photo" is that much useless for us now...