March/April View Camera Magazine out?

[Jan Pedersen]

Did anybody receive the March/April issue of the View Camera Magazine in the mail yet?

[Caroline Matthews]

They do not appear until about the first of the second month of the issue period.

Quite frankly, this is a silly question to keep asking here. Why would you not call the magazine?

[steve simmons]

Actually, I am flattered that people do ask. They are on the way, I promise.

This issiue has 8 bonus pages as our way of apologizing for the printing problems with the last issue where the printer did not use the corrected pages. The issue includes a portfolio of Robert Polidori images, articles on paper for digital printing, a review of the Chamonix 4x5, more of the 7x17 project including a mistake I made in exposing and developing a neg and how it looks as a result of this mistake, plus more. Feedback is always appreciated.

steve simmons

[Jan Pedersen]

Quite frankly, this is a silly question to keep asking here. Why would you not call the magazine?

Because i am silly and because Steve has gone home for the day but spend his evening here.

Steve, Thanks.

[David Spivak-Focus Magazine]

Actually, I am flattered that people do ask. They are on the way, I promise.

This issiue has 8 bonus pages as our way of apologizing for the printing problems with the last issue where the printer did not use the corrected pages. The issue includes a portfolio of Robert Polidori images, articles on paper for digital printing, a review of the Chamonix 4x5, more of the 7x17 project including a mistake I made in exposing and developing a neg and how it looks as a result of this mistake, plus more. Feedback is always appreciated.

steve simmons

Steve -- did you contact my printer? He does AMAZING work and has a huge passion for fine art photography. You're not still with the same printer who does B&W Magazine, Publisher's Press, are you? I had such difficulty with them and their reproduction standards, or lack thereof. They could've cared less.

[Don Hutton]

Steve -- did you contact my printer? He does AMAZING work and has a huge passion for fine art photography. You're not still with the same printer who does B&W Magazine, Publisher's Press, are you? I had such difficulty with them and their reproduction standards, or lack thereof. They could've cared less.

Perhaps "They couldn't have cared less." would makes more sense?

[Caroline Matthews]

Actually, I am flattered that people do ask. They are on the way, I promise.

This issiue has 8 bonus pages as our way of apologizing for the printing problems with the last issue where the printer did not use the corrected pages. The issue includes a portfolio of Robert Polidori images, articles on paper for digital printing, a review of the Chamonix 4x5, more of the 7x17 project including a mistake I made in exposing and developing a neg and how it looks as a result of this mistake, plus more. Feedback is always appreciated.

steve simmons

Does anyone else notice that Steve is NEVER responsible for errors in his magazine: it's always someone else? Thanks for (nothing) the apology, but no thanks. How about trying to achieve the quality that Lenswork achieves. I cannot remember a spelling error in Lenswork, missing pages, etc., etc. . . .

[Don Hutton]

Does anyone else notice that Steve is NEVER responsible for errors in his magazine: it's always someone else? Thanks for (nothing) the apology, but no thanks.

! I simply stopped subscribing two years ago.

This issiue has... more of the 7x17 project including a mistake I made in exposing and developing a neg and how it looks as a result of this mistake, plus more. steve simmons

I really can't imagine how satisfying it must be for readers to pay good money to look at mistakes either...

[RJ-]

Sorry to hear that Don.

I've just taken out a subscription to Viewcamera, having missed picking up a copy of Viewcamera from a store for the past year.

The Viewcamera ethos and principles are more interesting for me: perhaps that is why, the spelling errors are inconsequential. Unlike other publications which are grammatically precise yet aesthetically hollow.

Kind regards,

RJ

[steve simmons]

Here is what I said when I realized there were problems with the last issue

As the publisher the buck stops at my desk and I do apologize.

With regards to the mistake in exposing and developing the one neg from the 7x17 project in the March issue, I included it intentionally to show what happens when the exposure and developing are not done correctly and to show that PS is not a fixit for a badly done negative. It would be the same result if trying to print a neg on a paper that is not matched to the film's densities Sometimes looking at mistakes will show more than always looking at something done correctly. This is a teaching series and I don't mind showing my mistakes.

steve simmons