Contrary to what has been stated,
I stand corrected
Where would be the pleasure to chat on the forum, if there was always a consensus
But I'm ready to make progresses and I have no excuse since I own a camera with very precise lateral shifts.
I confess: it is a real shame not to use them.
(I suspect Charles to have bought a precise Swiss-made view camera only for the distinctive pleasure of generous & micrometric lateral shifts )
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Regarding books on understanding & using the view camera + various LF techniques, I own those books (except Stone's nd Simmons'), definitely more recent than 1962, except the Linhof book (1-st ed. 1958), and I warmly recommend them to our readers.
Well, so far I do not have any _British_ book, but it you have British LF references to pass, whichever publication date, being an uncompromising euro-patriot, I would be delighted to read a good British textbook. After all, didn't France & Britain actually invent almost everything in photography
1/ in English:
The most complete _technical_ book is probably Stroebel's
Leslie D. Stroebel, ``View Camera Technique'', 7-th Ed.,
ISBN 0240803450, (Focal Press, 1999)
There is (was, probably out of print) a series of book by the Sinar view camera manufacturer named "creative large format".
Basics and Applications (Creative Large Format Photography)
Sinar Publications AG ISBN-10: 3723100309
A small but very complete technical book by Kodak
The Large-Format Photography (Kodak Publication, No. O-18e.)
by Eastman Kodak Company, James A. McDonald, Roger Vail
Silver Pixel Press; 2nd edition (March 1996) ISBN-10: 0879857714
I love Kodak technical books. Simple to understand, precise, efficient, a model in terms of serious tutorials.
Too bad that Big Yellow ... (OK, I stop lamenting).
Harvey Shaman, The View Camera: Operations and Techniques, Amphoto
Books, 2nd Revised edition edition (Feb 1992), ISBN 0817463755
(this books describes in detail the effects of perspective rendition vs. camera movements)
Users Guide To the View Camera 2ND Edition, Jim Stone Prentice Hall; 3 edition 2003 ISBN 0130981168
There is a Linhof LF tutorial book, I have the French version,
Pratique du grand format - Linhof 1973 - Ed. Nikolaus Karpf - GrossBild-Technik - Munich
but do I not have the exact refernce in english, however this books did exist:
Linhof Practice. An Introduction of Linhof Cameras, Their Accessories, and Photographic Technique.
2/ in French, hard to find but higly recommended by the francophone LF community:
Pierre Groulx, Photographie en grand format (taking pictures and using the view camera, contains excellent examples of buildings in the old Montreal city, )
Modulo Québec, 2001) ISBN-10 : 2891135059
Michel Hébert, Le système des zones et la sensitométrie (exposure and zone-system techniques)
Modulo (Québec, 2001) ISBN-10 : 2891137035
This excellent pair of books are derived from the professional training of young photographers at CEGEP de Matane, a professional school in Québec. In France I doubt that any LF tutorial / professional teaching book on LF photography has been published after 1990, except, may be, translations of Sinar books.
Québec was probably the last part of the francophone world where professionals continued to use and teach LF photography.
Exactly like the Siberian arctic island of Wrangel, where mammoths have quietly survived several millenaries after their continental cousins had dissapeared, killed by cavemen & global warming.
Getting closer to 1962, here is a list of good-old French books of the seventies, very easy & cheap to find as second-hand items.
Eds Paul Montel, a former French publishing company specialised in photography in the XXst century. I think I've already passed those references here, so I apologize for redundancy.
René Bouillot : « Moyens et Grands formats » Paul Montel ~ 1970's
René Bouillot : « Le visage et son image. Le portrait photographique. » Paul Montel, 1977
René Bouillot : « L'objet et son image. Photographie industrielle et publicitaire, » Paul Montel, 1978
3/ in German
Besides the Linhof & Sinar books, published in German, English & other languages, those resources exist on the 'net, free to download:
http://www.foto-net.de/net/kameras/gross.html
http://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Photoschul ... 3%9Fformat (oooops !!! like many web references, this one seem to have vanished ...)