Fred Picker's ability to produce superb prints is well known, but more important to instructors and students at the hundreds of colleges and workshops where this book is the basic technical text, is his remarkable ability to transmit his knowledge so logically, clearly, and briefly.
Well worth reading! This is a straight-on, hands-on practice book, conveying good film and paper processing and image capture technique. It's absolutely relevant for the analog photographer, even today, all those decades later. The same knowledge and concepts apply, even though most of the material he mentions is long gone from the market. Picker describes many invaluable technical aspects and gives good know-how seldom found in modern day resources.