A User's Guide to the View Camera: Third Edition - Paperback
by Jim Stone (Author)
This reissued third edition of A User's Guide to View Camera introduces photographers to large-format cameras, covering their use with both film and digital capture. Readers will learn the anatomy of cameras with a separately adjustable back or front, the proper techniques for using view cameras, and how to take care of large-format cameras--all through straightforward and practical instruction and abundant visual examples. This latest edition features:
- Practical approaches to mastering lenses, shutters, accessories, and the ever-important maintenance of your view camera
- Tips for both simple operation and advanced control of the camera, including film holders, bellows, and tripods, and film handling and development
- A section on digital equipment, offering updates on the nearly 200-year-long history of the view camera
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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