Sources: English language

General books

McKeown's Guide

McKeown, James M. and Joan C. McKeown's Price Guide to Antique and Classic Cameras, 12th Edition, 2005-2006. USA, Centennial Photo Service, 2004. ISBN 0-931838-40-1 (hardcover). ISBN 0-931838-41-X (softcover).

Matanle's Classic Cameras

Matanle, Ivor. Collecting and Using Classic Cameras. London: Thames & Hudson, 1986. First paperback edition, 1992. ISBN 0-500-27656-0.

Matanle's Classic SLRs

Matanle, Ivor. Collecting and Using Classic SLRs. London: Thames & Hudson, 1996. ISBN 0-500-01726-3.

German cameras

Zeiss Compendium

Barringer, C. and Small, M. Zeiss Compendium East and West — 1940–1972. Small Dole (UK): Hove Books Ltd., 1999 (2nd edition). ISBN 1-874707-24-3.

British cameras

The Cameras of Ilford Limited

Holliman, Andrew J. Faces, People and Places - The Cameras of Ilford Ltd. - 1899 to 2005 - Hardback, 288 pages, 270 images, 76 Ilford camera marques, 152 Ilford camera models. Full details and ordering page at: http://www.electricstrings.com/ilford.htm ISBN 0-9545342-1-2

The result of over 20 years research including significant details about the Ilford Witness and the Ilford Advocate never previously published. Details about the companies and personalities involved with Ilford from interviews with former employees.

Japanese cameras

The History of the Japanese Camera

Lewis, Gordon, ed. The History of the Japanese Camera. Rochester, N.Y.: George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography & Film, 1991. ISBN 0-935398-17-1 (paper), ISBN 0-935398-16-3 (hard).

Kuribayashi-Petri Cameras

Baird, John R. Collectors guide to Kuribayashi-Petri Cameras. Grantsburg, WI (USA): Centennial Photo Service, 1991. ISBN 0-931838-16-9.

The Japanese Camera

Baird, John R. The Japanese Camera. Yakima, WA: Historical Camera Publications, 1990. ISBN 1-879561-02-6.

The Japanese Historical Camera

The Japanese Historical Camera. 2nd ed. Tokyo: JCII Camera Museum, 2004.

A clothbound book in a simple slipcase that presents a photograph and a few facts about each of over seven hundred cameras, from 1903 to 2003. Most are innovative in some way (often only a small or merely gimmicky way, and sometimes innovative only among Japanese cameras rather than cameras in general). A very few are presented with no claim of innovation but because of their reputation, sales or both. The terse text is in both English and Japanese, the Japanese (but not the English) also appearing in the camera database of the Center of the History of Japanese Industrial Technology. This book, whose alternative title is Nihon no rekishiteki kamera (日本の歴史的カメラ), has no ISBN and perhaps is only sold at and from the museum (for ¥3500). The museum shows it here; however, the site seems to presume that anyone interested in buying it would be living in Japan and would order via fax.

Chinese cameras

Cameras of the People's Republic of China

St Denny, Douglas. Cameras of the People's Republic of China. Leicester, UK: Jessop Specialist Publishing, 1989. ISBN 0-9514392-0-0.