Sometimes it pays to not over think things.

I found a folder with the pictures of the Bounty. Lots of years ago that movie ship was in Mobile. I couldn't remember if I posted them or not.

This forum has a topic icon that the others don't. I added it because the "other" hobbies got lost in all my camera posts. And.... I thought just a camera forum might attract somebody I know from facebook camera pages.

The Minolta Maxxum 7000 is known as the first auto focus SLR with the motor in the camera rather than in the lens like the Pentax ME F which was the first film SLR with an auto focusing lens in 1981. The 7000 was aimed at the advanced non professional photographer and introduced in February of 1985....

This experiment is over. The site is back to anyone can see it again.

I tried to see if I could coax guests to post by requiring membership in the message board to read the forum material. Much of what is here goes back 20 years and shows the progression of milsurp collecting in a timeline that isn't easily found elsewhere on the internet. Some of the information here...

Saw this digital camera for $20. What attracted me were two things. One... it had a relatively long zoom for a compact digital camera from 2007. 18x and 28-504 zoom. The other thing was the way Panasonic/Lumix was trading off the Leica name for the vario focus lens by Elmar as buyer bait. It also ha...

If you look at the camera pages on facebook somebody is always showing off their C3 "brick". Usually the standard version ..but the series lasted from before WWII until the 60's and the Argus C series was the most produced line of all times.... at least in the US. The line had many variati...