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* 14 May 2005 - Leopold Godowsky, Jr. and Leopold Mannes inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame for inventing Kodachrome film. Their patent number was 1,997,493 [[Kodachrome]] | * 14 May 2005 - Leopold Godowsky, Jr. and Leopold Mannes inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame for inventing Kodachrome film. Their patent number was 1,997,493 [[Kodachrome]] | ||
* 17 May 1966 - Vivitar trademark registered [[Vivitar]] | * 17 May 1966 - Vivitar trademark registered [[Vivitar]] | ||
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* 17 Jul 1898 - Berenice Abbott's birthday [[Berenice Abbott]] | * 17 Jul 1898 - Berenice Abbott's birthday [[Berenice Abbott]] | ||
* 20 Sep 1933 - Minolta trademark registered [[Minolta]] | * 20 Sep 1933 - Minolta trademark registered [[Minolta]] | ||
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Steve Rainwater
I'm interested in photography, vintage cameras, and lots of other stuff. See below for specific camera-related research topics that I'm pursuing here on Camera-wiki.org. Rather than try to write a comprehensive bio here, how about if I just link to all my genre-specific bios and profiles on other sites?
Contact Info
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Camera-Wiki.org Research
- Vivitar - My main focus for now is on the corporate history of Ponder and Best (aka Vivitar). I'm researching the correlation of manufacturers to Vivitar serial numbers. And I'm also researching the manufacturers who created Vivitar products such as Kino Precision and Tokina Optical Company, Ltd. I'm particularly interested in making contact with any ex-employees of the company who are willing to share what they know about the company's history. I'm also searching for behind-the-scenes photographs, marketing documents, procurement information that identifies product manufacturers, advertising materials, instructions manuals, service manuals, and of course, actual Vivitar products of any kind. My main product interest right now is collecting the earliest Vivitar lenses, known as the Compatible T System lenses and the Pyramid Preset lenses. If you have any Vivitar product you're willing to donate towards my research, I'm able and willing to photograph or scan it. contact me!
Other Photography Projects
- Camera Holiday Calendar
- How-To Document about Vintage Cameras
- My vintage cameras
- Dallas Makerspace DiY Darkroom/Photolab
- Dallas / Fort Worth Photo Location Guide
- Adapting a Vintage Slide Duplicator for use on a Crop Sensor DSLR
General Interests
Photography, vintage cameras, electronics, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, robots, arc welding, MIG welding, metal arts, kinetic art, music, space colonization, urban design, early utopian and communist communities, solar power, wind power, alternative energy, R. Buckminster Fuller, sustainable technology, social entrepreneurialism, science fiction, pulp magazine art, FLOSS (free [libre] / open source software), art cars, bioreactors, microfinance, and lots more stuff I can't think of at the moment.
ToDo List
- Set up SineBot to autosign unsigned posts to talk pages
- Need to make some progress on 501(c)(3) status
- Complete indie-go-go fundraiser campaign video for camerawiki
- Submit upstream patches to Hotcat to simplify installation process
- MediaWiki extension to allow admin mods to booksources page (replace links, add affliate IDs, search by title)
- MediaWiki extension implementing a new page wizard with camera, lens, company, etc. template loading (v1.19+)
- Discuss amazon / barnes and noble affiliate links on booksources page with community
- Discuss adding an ebay search link to camera / lens pages (also ebay affiliate link?)
- Revisit camera template
- More work on the flickr template extension to simplify adding photos
- Need Vivitar Pyramid presets and Chrome noses (have 135mm and 200mm chrome nose)
- Complete collection of Vivitar T-Mounts and document (still need 85mm, 600mm, 800mm)
- shoot additional pics of my Ansco viking
- Improve Wittnauer Legionairre page
- Add my mercury satellite pics to Imperial page
- Start a Fotokemika company page (right now, it's just a redirect to the Efke film page)
- Clean up and sort out the Hanimex camera listing, start a lens listing
- Shoot photos of my Seattle Film Works film canister/box and start company page
- Pages like K mount lenses should really be categories so that camera and lens articles can be added easily
Handy Internal Links
- Camera links - links to manufacturer histories and photo resources
Public Domain Photography Books
These are eBay searches for known public domain photography books with potential illustrations useful in Camera-Wiki.org
- Hand Cameras - A Handbook for Amateur Photographers, 3d edition, London 1913, Bayley, R. Child
- Ilford Manual of Photography (any edition published prior to 1923)
- Photography - 1853, Robert Hunt, John Joseph Griffin Co, London (PDF version from Google Books)
- The Watkins Manual of Exposure and Development - 1919, Alfred Watkins, Burke & James, Inc, Chicago (PDF version from Google Books)
- Color Photography: an Authoritative Summary - 1921, Charles Edward and Kenney Mees, Tennant and Ward, New York (PDF version from Google Books)
- Wall's Dictionary of Photography - any edition prior to 1923, E.J. Wall
MediaWiki Technical Links
Camera History Dates
I'm collecting some dates in the history of cameras and photography. The idea is to post a tweet on the camera-wiki twitter feed when the date rolls around and link it to the related camera-wiki article.
- 09 Apr 1922 - Patent granted to Eastman Kodak for Kodachrome file, #1,997,493 Kodachrome
- 14 May 2005 - Leopold Godowsky, Jr. and Leopold Mannes inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame for inventing Kodachrome film. Their patent number was 1,997,493 Kodachrome
- 17 May 1966 - Vivitar trademark registered Vivitar
- 06 Jun 1912 - Bruno Bernard's birthday Bruno Bernard
- 17 Jul 1898 - Berenice Abbott's birthday Berenice Abbott
- 20 Sep 1933 - Minolta trademark registered Minolta
Danger! Test Pages
Links to broken, testing, and development pages. Nothing to see here...
