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Title: Using the View Camera by Steve Simmons ISBN: 0-8174-6353-4 Publisher: Amphoto Pub. Date: March, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Fantastic Book!
Comment: This is an excellent book which meets its purpose well: providing all the important information you need to dive into the greatest format there is in photography: the view camera.
It's important to note that this book is not titled "How To Be An Artist" - this isn't at all the point of the book. Too many people are interested in being 'creative' before they have a clue technically as to what they're doing, which wrecks a lot of photography that could be excellent. I teach large format photography, and the skills taught in this book are absolutly essential to the technical aspects of the large format camera as a necessary step BEFORE the creative aspect.
This book explores the endless possibilities in shooting with a view camera; possibilities that are nearly never available to those shooting smaller formats. Everything is covered in the book from shooting to processing to printing, in an easy-to-read fashion, with excellent photos and diagrams along the way to help guide the reader.
I would recommend this book to all those just becoming interested in the view camera, as well as those who have quite a bit of experience.
Rating: 3
Summary: A brief introduction to the use of view cameras
Comment: This is a thin book designed really to introduce the very basics of view cameras. There are sufficient explanations of the various movements and the reasons for using them, but not much that would really make you want to get out there and get creative. A pity really that most beginning books dont seek to be more inspirational. Most of the information in this book is readily available from a number of individual web sites, and delivered in a more inspiring style.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent into to Large Fomat
Comment: As beginer to large format, I was looking for a book that would give me the basics of view cameras and their use. I already have a good foundation of photographic and exposure techniques. I found this book to be just right. No time is wasted discussing basic photography (although a nice intro to the Zone system is included, very basic), and very non-technical introduction to view cameras is presented. There is just enough math and science in this book to make you realize how much you may want to learn. After reading this book just once, I feel I can go out and use a view camera to take a picture.
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Title: View Camera Technique, Seventh Edition by Leslie Stroebel ISBN: 0240803450 Publisher: Focal Press Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $64.95 |
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Title: Large Format Nature Photography by Jack W. Dykinga ISBN: 0817441573 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Camera by Ansel Adams ISBN: 0821221841 Publisher: Bulfinch Pub. Date: 01 June, 1995 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: The Negative by Ansel Adams ISBN: 0821221868 Publisher: Bulfinch Pub. Date: 01 June, 1995 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: A User's Guide to the View Camera, Third Edition by Jim Stone ISBN: 0130981168 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 28 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
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