Product Description

Now in its seventh edition, View Camera Technique is a unique, comprehensive book that presents clearly and precisely the features, operations and applications of view cameras. It details camera movements, image formation, exposure control, and information concerning lenses and accessories. Diagrams, comparison charts, and more than 500 photographs and illustrations by distinguished professional photographers provide the reader with the tools necessary to analyze a picture situation, set up and manipulate the camera, and portray the subject to meet the expectations of the professional photographer.



This text has been completely revised and updated to include over 100 brand-name view cameras, and offers comparison tables to assist readers in choosing cameras, lenses, and view-camera digital backs. This latest edition offers expanded coverage of the newest technology, including electronic features that simplify the use of view cameras for conventional photography and digital view cameras that eliminate the need for film and make it possible to modify the digital images with image-processing computer software programs



Over 500 photographs and line drawings

Expanded coverage of the newest technology

Updated comparison tables for 111 brand-name view cameras and accessories including over 50 specific features

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #175220 in Books
• Published on: 1999-04-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 344 pages

Review
"View Camera Technique is in an astounding seventh edition...there's good reason for this perpetuity. This is a book that you will reference again and again." Shutterburg Feb 2000

"When you are a regular user of a view camera, View Camera Technique can save you a lot of money and frustration." - www.photocrack.com

About the Author
By Leslie Stroebel

Customer Reviews

View Camera Technique (7th edition) Focal Press 1999
This book, though it appears expensive, offers excellent value in terms of its coverage and the depth into which explores all the topics, whilst not straying too deeply into mathematics so as to be intimidating. Where formulae are used they are explained systematically and clearly.

The book is aimed at photographers interested in large format photography (film sizes of 10cm squared, or above) providing a thorough grounding in optical and photographic theory & practice. The book would also benefit those seeking to broaden their knowledge of this area including students at first year undergraduate level. Serious amateurs who wish to learn about topics such as making sense of the charts provided by manufacturers of photographic film, which can be rather intimidating to non-professionals; or the differing image resolution of modern and older (classic) lenses or optics specifically designed (and priced accordingly) for digital sensors; will find this book informative.

A Great Encyclopaedic Reference book
This book is a true reference book on photographic techniques and optics. Goes into great detail on the topics it covers and is a useful guide for an advanced photographer wanting to understand more scientific aspects of the craft.

True photography!
This book is really fantastic... if you are into photography, specialy analogue large format photography, and you want to learn all about the View Camera, then this is the book to read!
It goes from basic information to deep knowledge. Still lots of chapters and sections will improve your technique in all kinds of photography, even digital... i recomend it!