A User's Guide to the View Camera - Couverture souple

Stone, Jim

 
9780673396174: A User's Guide to the View Camera

Présentation de l'éditeur

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

Quatrième de couverture

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.

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