View Camera magazine back in business?

[Drew Bedo]

Got a subscription to View Camera magazine for Christmas. I thought they had stopped publication.

Are they back in business again?

[Duolab123]

From the website
View Camera is no longer being published.

If you subscribe you will receive 6 of the most recent issues.

It does look like you get access to old articles online

[jnantz]

maybe it is like emulsion magazine,
they sold subscriptions to people
a year after themagazine was defunct/
==
selling subscription to an old article archive
sounds kind of strange, .. but what do i know //
i haven't been subscribed for 10-15 years

[Louie Powell]

There are 'companies' that provide magazine subscription services. They get the subscribers list from the magazine and then send direct mail renewal invoices to those subscribers. Supposedly, they then close the link and enter a subscription on behalf of the actual subscriber, but I wouldn't automatically assume that to be the case - I know of one instance in which the editor of a magazine published an notice warning subscribers to stay away from these 'aftermarket' subscription services because at least some of them are pure scams.

I have personally renewal invoices from them for magazines that I knew had ceased publication as much as a year before they mailed the invoice. I've also received renewal notices from them for magazines for which I have never had a subscription.


The real renewal notice from Steve Simmons was a simple post card.

[Drew Bedo]

From the website
View Camera is no longer being published.

If you subscribe you will receive 6 of the most recent issues.

It does look like you get access to old articles online


And so it does. I tried to call and get some adjustment or switch to the reprint of lenses. The phone seems to be disconnected. Sent an e-mail and will have to hope for the best on this.

[Willie]

So, if you sign up do you get the first issue without typos?

[vinny]

So, if you sign up do you get the first issue without typos?

I just spit my drink out all over the place.

[Mark Sawyer]

So, if you sign up do you get the first issue without typos?

Those of us doing wet plate preferred to think of those typos as "artifacts" that showed the magazine was a hand-made artistic creation, not the product of industrial perfectionism...

[RichardRitter]

Oh yes the first issue of the magazine I can still hear the mooning and growing of Fred Picker.

[Andrew Plume]

Dear all

I feel that we should draw a line under 'VC', I have a significant number of editions and tended to ignore the lack of proof reading..............................

Andrew

[Andrew Plume]

So, if you sign up do you get the first issue without typos?

umm....................based on the past, fairly unlikely

Andrew

[Keith Pitman]

Make sure you pay for your subscription with your Confederate money so you get your money’s worth.

[Drew Bedo]

My mother-in-law used PayPal. I really do not want to entangle this 93 year-old lady in any refund drama. I was surprised and said nothing on Christmas morning.

I really do not want the last five back issues (I have them from the last year). I would rather have one of the collected reprints of either the LF techniques or the lens articles.

[Andrew O'Neill]

You could always ask Steve Simmons on his LF Facebook page... providing you use Facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/134289370064300/

[Vaughn]

Dear all

I feel that we should draw a line under 'VC', I have a significant number of editions and tended to ignore the lack of proof reading..............................

Andrew

I think I started with issue #2, or else I have lost the first issue, but I have always enjoyed receiving my next issue...I bought two or three years subscriptions at a time. I missed the last year -- I had moved and by the time I thought to re-subscribe, it had closed down. I won $250 off of a Ries Tripod in the first contest in ViewCamera (2nd place in Alt Photo) and got another image in. I even got a call from Steve, who appolized for mis-spelling my last name (actually both first and last names were mis-spelled), then he went on to give me the name and contact info of a Texas doctor who wanted to buy a print of my image in the magazine. Mis-spell my name all you want if I can sell a print! LOL! It was a great resource whose job got taken over by the internet. But I owe my present photographic love/endeavors to a Nov/Dec 1990 ViewCamera issue that had a receipe for making carbon prints. It took me a couple years to tweak that receipe into prints I wanted and it has kept me on the Dark Slide.

And the Dark Slide does not care about typos...

[Andrew O'Neill]

Nope. The typos never bothered me. I enjoyed every issue.

[Drew Bedo]

Steve: Are you out there?

[Drew Bedo]

Got the promised issues of View Camera yesterday. All from 2015. I had alreadyread them all back in 2015.

I had tried to contact them through the website, by e-mail and by phone. The published phone number seem to have been disconnected.` No response via e-mail either. Had hoped to switch the payment from a non-subscription to one of the reprinted article collections (techniques or lenses) but no such luck.

Anyway, they delivered what was promised in a timely manner. Just wish the situation had been made more clear to my 93 year old Mother-in-law.

[faberryman]

Steve: Are you out there?
He's moved on to selling videos about semi-stand developing.

[jnantz]

have you attempted to contact him through his facebook page ?
he seems to be active and probably has contact information .
i don'thave an account, but his page is a public one so you can
see he's an active user... and send him a private message ..

[Peter Lewin]

He's moved on to selling videos about semi-stand developing.
I believe there is a confusion of two "Steves" here. Steve Sherman is a photographer and teacher who is posting about semi-stand developing. Steve Simmons is the publisher of View Camera magazine, and still organizes workshops in the South West.

[faberryman]

I believe there is a confusion of two "Steves" here. Steve Sherman is a photographer and teacher who is posting about semi-stand developing. Steve Simmons is the publisher of View Camera magazine, and still organizes workshops in the South West.
Sorry for the confusion.

[sanking]

Glad we got that cleared up. I was struggling to put my mind around the idea of the other SS selling videos on semi-stand developing with Pyrocat.

Sandy

[Drew Bedo]

I believe there is a confusion of two "Steves" here. Steve Sherman is a photographer and teacher who is posting about semi-stand developing. Steve Simmons is the publisher of View Camera magazine, and still organizes workshops in the South West.



Sorry about that everyone: I did mean Steve Simmons, the publisher of the now defunct View Camera magazine.

[Louie Powell]

There are 'companies' that provide magazine subscription services. They get the subscribers list from the magazine and then send direct mail renewal invoices to those subscribers.

Got another 'renewal notice' in the mail today - for a magazine I have never heard of.

The offer comes in a plain white envelope with the return address "PO Box 1985, San Marcos, CA". The invoice asks that checks be made payable to "PMB Pacific Magazine Billing, LP".

[Bob Salomon]

Got another 'renewal notice' in the mail today - for a magazine I have never heard of.

The offer comes in a plain white envelope with the return address "PO Box 1985, San Marcos, CA". The invoice asks that checks be made payable to "PMB Pacific Magazine Billing, LP".

PMB is a scam. Search Google and read their BBB complaints.

[Drew Bedo]

As noted above, I have gotten the five most recent issues, all from 2015, all issues I already have.

My wife's mother wanted to do something nice for me at Christmas, and I made appreciative noises. She can well afford the $25-$30 and in her 93 year old world, all is well.

Any further action on my part would just be petty drama. I consider this matter to be closed.

[kevincook]

I'm sorry to hear this. I'm a subscriber and I loved the magazine.