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OK, well as a film photography guy, I’m a little paranoid about old cameras breaking and I’m more paranoid about who is going to fix these things in the future. It seems like with digital, you know it’s going to break or become obsolete so at this point, plan on replacing them periodically.

But with film, hopefully we can hang on to our cameras much longer. Some are timeless beauties. And hopefully, there will always be people around who know how to fix them correctly.

I am going to begin listing people on this site who do camera repair if I see that they have a good overall track record on the web.

So the first of these is Sherrie Krauter. I’ve seen her referred to many times as a reputable repair person and dealer of Leica Cameras.

Now about that Leica MP that I ***must*** have…

Leica i, ii, iii, iiic, iiif on eBay

Leica M2, M3, M4, M6, M7, MP on eBay

This post on David Bergman’s blog is pretty cool. He created this photo composite 220 Canon G10 images to make one picture of Barack Obama’s inauguration. He used a gigapan robotic camera mount to create the picture. Scroll in and out of the image and do some panning. See if you can find some dignitaries.

Be sure you visit the gigapan site, it will zoom straight into the snipers on a far rooftop. Cool use of technology.

A relative called about the last blog post and asked about video cameras.

My most recent camera is a Canon HV-20. This has been replaced by the HV-30 and some other models.

The beauty of the HV-20 and HV-30 is that they still use tape. Tape is great because you have a backup mechanism built into the camera. Shoot it, download it to the computer, and pack the tape away. Tape last a long time and it’s good to have backups.

The downfall of tape is that it’s another thing to have around. We’ll see how long cameras are available in this format, though.

A lot of people have switched to cameras with digital storage. But, I like having tape backups. Also, editing support has taken a while to develop for these and compression was bad when I last looked.

DV Camcorders on eBay