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Overview
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
Audience: Photographers; Students of Photography.
Synopsis
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 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 edition includes:
- Over 500 photographs and line drawings
- Clear explanations of basic imaging concepts
- Updated comparison tables for 111 brand-name view cameras, including over 50 specific features
- Updated table of specifications for 150 view-camera lenses.
- A new table of specifications for 20 view-camera digital backs.
- 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.
- Applications of view cameras, with illustrations by distinguished professional photographers.
Advanced students, serious amateurs, and professional photographers will discover invaluable insights into the features, operations, and applications of view cameras within the pages of View Camera Technique, 7th Edition. It is a must for every photographer's library.
Shutterbug - Joseph A. Dickerson
There are lots of books out there that discuss view cameras and view camera technique, and some mighty good ones at that, but Stroebel's work is the benchmark by which the rest are measured.
Editorials
From the Publisher
"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
Joseph A. Dickerson
There are lots of books out there that discuss view cameras and view camera technique, and some mighty good ones at that, but Stroebel's work is the benchmark by which the rest are measured.— Shutterbug