Camera-wiki.org:Camera links

Museums

see Camera museums

online-museums

• The American Museum of Photography
• Helios photography online: American photographic Art (web project of Smithsonian American Art Museum)
• comprehensive online exhibition catalogue about cameras by the Museum of the History of Science at the University of Oxford

Manufacturers' History Sites

• Canon Camera Museum
• Kodak camera dates
• Nikon history

Collections

• Kodak collection from a Dutch collector
• Cameraquest's Classic Camera Profiles
• Guide to classic cameras
• Collectible Cameras - Free Price Guide More than 18000 cameras listed. Some of them are with photos and short descriptions.
• Rangefinder Cameras of the former Soviet Union
• Lights in the box
• Matt's Cameras
• The Other Martin Taylor's Cameras
• www.kamera-geschichte.de Cameras and history of Photo Porst (at one time the world's biggest photo retailer)
• Lionel's Rangefinder and Compact Camera Collection
• Cameras Collection by Sylvain Halgand More than 3000 cameras. Many other collectors show their own cameras on this website.
• Classic camera collection at Retrography.com by Simon Simonsen, Denmark
• Photoptic about French cameras
• Collection G. Even's site
• Bill Strong's site
• George Eastman House Technology Archive not only Kodak
• museo virtual (Spanish, camera collection, including Spanish products)
• The Gala Collection at merrillphoto.com [1]
• The Camera Site Virtual Camera Museum by Reijo Lauro
• Alain Laflamme and Diane Girouard's collection site French, with English translatons

commercial link

• Online Camera Store Modern, Vintage, Film and Digital Cameras and Accessories!

Repair information and manuals

• Rick Oleson's Camera Stuff
• Camera Collecting and Restoration (Daniel Mitchell)
• Table of register ("back focus") distances for various cameras
• Sylvain Halgand's website: 700+ free manuals
• www.orphancameras.com 3500+ free instruction manuals and booklets. Various models from box to EOS, 2 1/4 brands, lightmeters and flashes. Old photo chemistry, camera sales catalogs from 1940's to '80,s. Mostly English language.

Tests and Reviews

• Third-Party Cult Lenses
• Imaging Resource
• Steve's Digicams
• DP Review
• Camera Prices

Junk/Toy cameras

• Junk Store Cameras ("It's not the photographer. It's the camera.")

General camera information

• Alfred's Camera Page (primarily Soviet cameras)
• USSRPhoto.com - Soviet and Russian Camera Collector's Resource ( Wiki-style Catalog of Soviet and Russian Cameras and related photographic equipment, as well as forums and dealer reviews.)

Forums

• Photo.net forums many forums
• Nelsonfoto forums several forums, free of advertising
• Camera-fix forum on BestStuff
• Russiancamera-user forum on BestStuff
• The Camera Collector Message Board
• Classic Camera Repair Forum
• French Non Digital Forum
• Rangefinder Forum
• Historic Camera forum
• Large Format Photography Forum
• Camera collection Forum (in French)
• Manual Focus Lens Discussion Forum
• PhotoComment - SA's Own Photo Forum
• USSRPhoto.com - Russian/Soviet camera forum

resource lists

• Boston University, Photography Research Guide
• Google patent search

Other wikis

• Super 8 Wiki, a project similar to Camerapedia for Super 8 movie cameras