View Camera Technique
by Leslie Stroebel
from Focal Press

Editorial Review:

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

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• 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... more info

• 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... more info

• 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.