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 | | View Camera Technique by Leslie Stroebel ISBN-10: 0240803450 ISBN-10: 0-240-80345-0 ISBN-13: 9780240803456 ISBN-13: 978-0-240-80345-6 Hardcover 1999-03 Focal Press Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description This complete guide provides in-depth discussion on every aspect of the view camera and includes chapters on camera characteristics, camera movements, image formation, the Zone System, exposure controls, types of lenses, perspective and angles of view, depth of field, filters, exposures, light meters, exposure/development factors and applications of view camera techniques. 396 pages, 8 x 11 , Hardbound. | ||
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View Camera Technique - 7th edition A well written book from Focal Press (Elsevier) which contains a tremendous collection of information/detail on view cameras. The 7th edition which I reviewed, was published in 1999 and needs to be updated for more recent advancements with electronic equipment (circa 2008). Otherwise, this book is a neccessary reference for anyone seriously involved with view cameras. | ||
A college course on photography This is more than just a book on view cameras. Its also a complete treatise on optics, film chemistry, and exposure considerations. In other words, everything that you might possibly want to know about photography - plus how it all relates to the view camera. This is actually a book for anyone who wants to learn the technology of photography regardless of camera type. The limitations of this book are in the digital realm where its dating shows more clearly. And its not a 'page turner' unless you're really into this stuff. That being said, Ansel Adams' books on camera and film are really harder to read than this book and not nearly as clear. Stroebel has lots of photos to illustrate key points. This book is also more complete and up to date, but lacks the artist's viewpoint that Adams brings. | ||
This Book Needs Updating or Another Publisher This 7th Edition was published in 1999, but a good bit of the material seems to date from an earlier era. Remarks about 35mm photography, for example, refer to a level of technology that prevailed much longer ago. The photographs (none in color) are very, very dated in style (were they made in East Germany?), and in fact many of them are held over from the 1st edition (1967). Worse, the pictures are disturbingly bizarre and creepy. I ripped page 78 out of the book to avoid having to see it again. This may the most comprehensive work available on the subject, but let's hope the 8th edition is a thorough revision - and please include a few marvelous color landscapes and fine B&W portraits that are the reasons we love the LF format.... and lose those awful distorted photographs of 1950s mannequins. Luckily, though, a lot of things about view cameras are the same as they have always been, so the basic content of this book remains altogether usable. | ||
Too complete I probably found this book too complete; sure Prof. Stroebel gives all concepts for large format photography, but in my opinion all these concepts are put in the book one near the other without a logical education steps for the reader. So in my opinion if you already have got those concepts you will sure understand them, but if you don't know those concepts, you will have a lot of difficulties to learn them by this book. | ||
THE authority. This is THE reference standard for view camera photography. Prof. Strobel fully explains the different types of view cameras and how to best take advantage of the bellows and various camera movements. This book first appeared in 1967 and has only gotten better with each printing. Prof. Strobel was one of my professors at RIT 30 years ago and I still find myself using his excellent book as a reference. | ||