User:Steevithak
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Steve Rainwater
I'm interested in photography, vintage cameras, and lots of other stuff. 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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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.
My Projects
I'll only list my photography related projects here. :)
- 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
ToDo List
- MediaWiki extension implementing a new page wizard with camera, lens, company, etc. template loading (v1.19+)
- MediaWiki extension to allow admin mods to booksources page (replace links, add affliate IDs, search by title)
- Submit upstream patches to Hotcat to simply installation process
- Revisit camera template
- Need Vivitar Pyramid presets and Chrome noses
- Complete collection of Vivitar T-Mounts and document
- shoot additional pics of my Ansco viking
- Improve Wittnauer Legionairre page
- Add my mercury satellite pics to Imperial page
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
Danger! Test Pages
Links to broken, testing, and development pages. Nothing to see here...