[rollei_list] Re: OT: Getting into 4x5 for the first time...
- From: "Jeff Kelley" <jlkphoto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:08:48 -0700
Bob, great stories, thanks!
Textbook prices for a textbook...no doubt the publishers and not the authors
of textbooks benefit most from this highway robbery....
Jeff
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:19 PM, <ralaubach@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I guess it's price is high because it is a college textbook and focal
> press books are somewhat expensive. We used to use the Stone book here, but
> it is now over $70!! We use the Simmons book now at $24.95. VCT by
> Stroebel will always be THE book on view camera for me, having had Stroebel
> for several classes at RIT, and as my thesis advisor. He is legendary - do
> you recall the John Houseman role in "Paper Chase" where he plays an
> imposing law professor of Harvard first year law students? That is the
> stature of Les Stroebel. Very quiet and dignified, authoritative, and above
> all, a most excellent teacher. As a student of Stroebel, it wasn't ever
> good enough to just know the answer - he made sure that you really
> understood the principle involved.
> We once had a Friday guest lecture from a representative from Linhof. He
> made some statement about circle of confusion or something when a calm quiet
> voice from the rear asked if he didnt mean X instead of the Y he stated.
> The Linhof dude reiterated Y. 20 minutes or so later he stated Y again to
> which the same calm voice asked again if he didnt mean X. Joe Linhof said
> yes, Leslie Stroebel in View Camera Technique says blah blah blah Y. To
> which the calm quiet voice replied, "but I AM Leslie Stroebel"
>
> I actually went to court with Stroebel - a classmate bought a convertible
> lens from an upperclasswoman who ripped him off - NO rear element, and he
> didnt recognize this til we showed him. Friend sued in small claims court
> and Stroebel accompanied us as expert witness showing the judge how the lens
> focused at longer than marked focal length because it was a convertible lens
> without the rear element.
>
> Sorry if this was TMI !! Stroebel has written or contributed greatly to
> many photo books including Dictionary of Contemporary Photography, Materials
> and Processes of Photography (we called M&P "Misery and Pain of Photography"
> - it was our equivalent to Paper Chase's Harvard 1L class!
>
> Bob
> RIT '79
>
>
>
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