Dying Websites - Darkroom and Photography Info

[willwilson]

I recently went through the links on my website and was sad to see some darkroom and photography websites no longer accessible. If you or someone you know hosts a photography, LF photography, photo equipment or darkroom resource page and are thinking about no longer hosting it, please contact me. I would be glad to host an archive/mirror of your material for free as a service to the community. I'll host your domain name or it can just be on mine. Good example is Paul Butzi's Rodenstock lens info page. You can look it up on the way back machine but the literature scans do not load. If interested email me, will@willwilson.com or message me here.

[Delfi_r]

Sometimes you need to navigate the archive to get the images: for the scans you are searching you need to go wayback form 2006 to early crawls of the website

https://web.archive.org/web/20050218084700/http://www.butzi.net:80/rodenstock/grandagon/90mm.htm

220867

I've searched the Grandagon 4.5/90

[willwilson]

Thanks Delfi. I am familiar with that technique. It works for some but not all and is definitely not user friendly. If you want to download and recompile the list, I will host it.

[krunkeriogm]

There's a really interesting piece over at the Literate Lens website about the apparently dying art of darkroom printing. In it the author talks about spending time with Magnum Photos dark room printer Pablo Inirio - the man who made all those Cartier-Bresson, Dennis Stock and René Burri photographs look so good.

krunkerio (http://krunkerio.io)

[Ulophot]

I don't have any, will, but what a generous offer!