User's Guide to the View Camera - Softcover

Stone, Jim

 
9780673520067: User's Guide to the View Camera

Synopsis

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This book introduces photographers to the use of any camera with large-format film and to the operation of any camera with a separately adjustable back or front. Updated to take account of new electronic and digital cameras, it is a practical guide with basic suggestions for operation and maintenance as well as useful information on camera components.

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From the Back Cover

A User's Guide to the View Camera, Third Edition continues the tradition of offering a practical guide to the professional photographer's ultimate tool: the large-format camera system.

Written in the clear, accessible style that is Jim Stone's hallmark, this text features careful presentation of the unusual features and advantages of large-format and view cameras, practical suggestions for operation and maintenance, and helpful, well-illustrated discussions of processes and components, including film systems, lenses, and accessories.

The new edition features new material on digital accessories for large-format photography, including information about view cameras purpose-built for digital use. New illustrations by contemporary photographers update the standard reference on large-format cameras for the new millennium.

About the Author

Jim Stone is a professor of Photography at the University of New Mexico and the author of several monographs and educational books on photography, including those he co-authored with Barbara London ( Photography, A Short Course in Photography: Film and Darkroom, A Short Course in Photography: Digital). His photographs have been exhibited and published internationally and are in the permanent collections of major museums.

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