Links

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Reference / Databases

• Canon Camera Museum
• Canon EOS Technoclopedia
• Pebble Place - Contax db, Leica db
• Captain Jack's Exakta Pages
• Ihagee & Exakta products and history
• Konica SLR system 1960-1987
• The Konica AR system
• KONICA Collector
• KOWA Six/ 6MM/ Super 66 Medium Format SLR Camera Historical Site (via archive.org)
• The Minolta SR System - Excellent!
• RED Bailey’s Minolta Lens Chronology (via archive.org)
• MINMAN - Minolta RF and MF SLR cameras and lenses
• Minolta AF knowledge base by Michael Hohner - Excellent!
• Roland's Nikon Pages - Excellent!
• Olympus OM system close-up and macro equipment by Alan Wood - Excellent!
• The Pentacon Six System by TRA
• Mike's Praktica home
• Rolleiflex SL66 system
• Rolleigraphy: Rolleiflex User’s Site
• Pascal's Rolleiflex Pages
• Tamron Adapt-A-Matic, Adaptall and Adaptall-2 lenses
• Yashica TLR - Information about Yashica cameras, not only TLR, but also 35mm SLR and RF
• Zeiss Ikon VEB (in German) - Information about cameras and lenses made by Zeiss Ikon VEB (East Germany)
• die private Homepage zur Geschichte der Dresdner Fotoindustrie (in German) - Excellent!
• Photo but more by Horst Neuhaus (in German) - Lots of information about Exakta cameras and lenses made by East German manufacturers
• Early Photography - Information about early cameras and equipment from the 1850s to the 1950s
• Le site de la Dioptrique Photographique (in French)
• The History of Penta Prism SLR (via archive.org)
• The Macro Lens Collection Database

Manuals / Brochures / Ads

• An online library of photo related PDF files by Pacific Rim Camera - Excellent!
• Camera Manual Library by Butkus - the content of many instruction manuals in the HTML format is messed up after OCR, many instruction manuals are scanned incompletely and/or in poor quality, at the beginning of each PDF a "copyrighted" page is inserted that disallows the distribution of scanned material without the written permission of the author of the copyrighted page (Butkus). A first class example of how not to publish instruction manuals. However, it is listed here due to the large volume of material dedicated to cameras and lenses.
• IanB Foto - User manuals and brochures for Bronica, Mamiya, Metz and and Fuji GX680 cameras and lenses

Guides / Overviews / Technical articles

• Articles about optics by Edmund Optics - Excellent!
• The Hasselblad V-System master guide: Overview - Excellent!
• A complete guide to the Mamiya RZ67 Pro: part one – deep system overview - Excellent!
• A complete guide to the Mamiya RZ67, part two: film holder system - Excellent!
• A complete guide to the Mamiya RZ67, part three: lenses, filters and accessories - Excellent!

Photography clubs

• Asahi Optical Historical Club
• Club Hasselblad
• Hasselblad Historical
• Rolleiclub

Books

• The Ultimate Asahi Pentax Screw Mount Guide 1952-1977 (1999) by Gerjan van Oosten
• The Definitive Asahi Pentax Collector's Guide 1952-1977 (2021) by Gerjan van Oosten
• Hasselblad System Compendium (2003) by Richard Nordin
• The Hasselblad manual: Seventh Edition (2008) by Ernst Wildi
• Leica collector's guide: 2nd edition (2005) by Dennis Laney
• Leica M Compendium: Handbook of the Leica M System (1994) by Jonathan Eastland
• Leica R Compendium: Handbook of the Leica R System (1995) by Jonathan Eastland
• Identifying Leica Lenses: The Complete Pocket Guide to Buying and Selling Leica Lenses Like an Expert (1999) by Ghester Sartorius
• Nikon F (trilogy) (2003) by Uli Koch
• Nikon Compendium: Nikon Systems from 1917 (2011) by Simon Stafford
• Nikon Rangefinder Camera: An Illustrated History (1993) by Robert Rotoloni