Manufacturers:
Alpa - the definitive guide to
Alpa cameras...the best medium format cameras made in our humble opinion.
Up to 6x9 with shift and lens variety of Schneider, Zeiss and Rodenstock!
Our Swiss friends Thomas and Ursula provide the very best of medium
format cameras with the very best support.
Leica Camera - Cameras, binoculars,
new news and now even a customer forum.
Hasselblad Cameras - the
source for the latest news on Hasselblad equipment.
Xpan.com - this subset of the
Hasselblad site has an exciting multimedia presentation about one fo
the coolest panoramic cameras to be released in the past several years.
Rapidwinders - our favorite
third party M accessory, by our favorite designer Tom Abrahamsson. Maker
of softies (soft releases) and other nifty products for Leica photographers.
We sell these products too!
Mamiya America - the best source
of Japanese medium format cameras. M7's rangefinder cameras are a personal
favorite of their line.
Cosina - makers of the new
"Voigtlander" line of lenses and some ingenius accessories.
Research:
Erwin Putts - the great
Leica sage at his finest. Frequent updates out of his base in Holland,
a great supplement to his new book. More information here about lenses
than anyone really needs to know!
Vernacular Photography
- a comparison of M and R cameras, a nice primer.
Alpavision - a site by André
Oldani and friends about the legendary Alpa medium format camera.
The Minox
Camera - part of a very nicely done web site that has all the
main information about Minox cameras with nice photos.
Shutterbug Magazine - ...a
shopping-mart galore.
The Luminous Landscape-
a cool site about B&W photography that is very active.
Pascal's
Leica Pages - A good research site with some interesting photos
of the factory and even the company song!
George Nyman - A good site
to learn about optics, imagaing, microscopy, and photo finishing. Also
one of the more complete sites for info. on Alpa cameras.
Societies:
LHSA - the Leica Historical Society.
One of the largest and most active Usonian camera clubs. Wonderful meetings
and publications.
NHS - the Nikon Historical
Society. Don't miss it. Raw and techincal with quite a few oddities.
The Sub Club
- where all the lovers of submini get together on the Internet. Active
classifieds.
Digital:
Sundance & R9 - the best
source for quad tone B&W inks and software for quad tone printing..
Imacon -
the best desktop "drum" scanners on the market. We really
like the Imacon 343, & 646!
Wtracingimages - some
digital images of race cars by a die-hard Leica & Piezo customer
of ours.