What happened to www.cameraeccentric.com?

[Jac@stafford.net]

I keep telling people to use https://www.google.com/advanced_search with the domain set to www.largeformatphotography.info

No one remembers. If there were a sticky, no one would look at it.

The forum UI could be changed to offer exactly that.

[Dan Fromm]

While I was at it, I added two links to Krauss catalogs, one in English, and uploaded.

[jnantz]

Isn't Dan a member here, or is he on APUG? Has anyone thought to PM or email him to ask? He's also rather visible on Facebook.

hi brian
do you mean seth ? seth broder and his wife used to run camera eccentric
i think he had trouble with spam, for a year or 2 my email gets
messages with his website address on it ( staff@ ) but its real return address
is the far east or russia...

[goamules]

Are we saying the camera eccentric site is gone?! Man, that's been a huge resource for thousands of people for many years. I hate to think in the Internet age we all should have been stockpiling thousands of redundant copies on our home PCs......

[BrianShaw]

hi brian
do you mean seth ? seth broder and his wife used to run camera eccentric
i think he had trouble with spam, for a year or 2 my email gets
messages with his website address on it ( staff@ ) but its real return address
is the far east or russia...

You're right. My brain got cross-wired and I was thinking of Dan Colluci. Thanks for saving me from appearing senile!

[Leszek Vogt]

Hmmm, maybe we can find it among the world's seeds in Norway.

Les

[DrTang]

I bet pacific camera would gladly take their catalog pdf files

[Dan Fromm]

Um, er, ah, cameraeccentric's catalogs are posted as collections of jpegs.

If you mean Pacific Rim Camera, I just visited their site. archive.org last crawled their reference page (http://www.pacificrimcamera.com/rl/rlrindex.htm) on October 25, 2016. The top level links work. Clicking on one brings up the next lower level, a sort of title page. Clicking on the link in the title page brings up nothing and a message that the page the link points to is available on the web. Anyway, there's practically no info there on LF lenses, a little more on LF cameras. Very spotty. A rainy day project, possibly long abandoned.

[DrTang]

ha... in the middle of the night I bolted upright out of bed and said to myself: Pacific RIM Camera

they keep posting new catalogs they've put up to various Facebook groups... I figured they were bulking that out


it's easy enough to turn jpegs into a pdf though..

[DHodson]

Not sure how many people are familiar with Project Gutenberg but it was started by Michael Hart in 1971. He invented the e-book and shared many, long before the internet via ARPANET and bulletin boards - amazing guy who unfortunately died in 2011.

His vision of an electronic library of copyright-free books lives on however with Project Gutenberg ( https://www.gutenberg.org/ ) and the efforts of volunteers around the world. This site is great for browsing and would be perfect for preserving and sharing these old catalogues (there's already a few on it).

I'd be okay with doing the legwork if someone could PM me a contact email for the former owners of Cameraeccentric.

Regards
Dave