While I was at it, I added two links to Krauss catalogs, one in English, and uploaded.
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......
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Hmmm, maybe we can find it among the world's seeds in Norway.
Les
I bet pacific camera would gladly take their catalog pdf files
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.
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..
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.
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Dave
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