View Camera Technique

by Leslie Stroebel

Book 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0240803450
• ISBN13: 9780240803456
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.8" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

THE authority.

This is THE reference standard for view camera photography. Prof. Strobel fully explains the different types of view cameras and how to best take advantage of the bellows and various camera movements. This book first appeared in 1967 and has only gotten better with each printing. Prof. Strobel was one of my professors at RIT 30 years ago and I still find myself using his excellent book as a reference.

The "Complete" book on photogrpahy

View Camera Technique is a fantastic, all encompassing book covering not only view cameras, but all aspects of photography. Everything you've ever wanted to know is in this book. It will be a reference book that I will pull off the shelf for years and years. Well done and well worth the price!

Required reading

This is THE work on view cameras. Probably the most comprehensive single-volume work, it should be required reading for everybody.It does not cover all the latest models (use the internet for that) but view cameras have not changed fundamentally in decades. The work covers all basic and intermediate topics, as well as many advanced techniques.A book to read and re-read several times.

Nuts to Bolts - Everything you want know

When anyone asks me what book they should read about how to use a view camera, I recommend Stroebel's View Camera Technique. I have a third edition and the 7th, while maintaining many of the original illustrations, the 7th edition is even better. If you are like me and want to know the how and why of view cameras. This is the book to read.

The seminal book on view camera technique. Required reading!

This is a book you read when you first get into large format photography and still pull off the shelf years later. This book has all the hardcore technical details and is still totally accessible to the first timer. If you only own one book on view camera technique, own this one.