I Still Shoot Film

Follow up to The Camera, this book was also required reading for all of my photography classes. Explains everything you could ever want to know about film. Also great for beginners.

Every single person who asked where is a good place for beginners to start: READ THIS BOOK. It was required reading for every photography class I ever took, including at college. It explains shutter speed, aperture, depth of field, optics, different types of shutters, how your camera works in general, and virtually everything else you need or want to know about a manual film camera.

This is a PDF, but I highly recommend buying this book if you are seriously into photography.