365cameras.com

Here’s a site, http://digitalrokkor.altervista.org/ that explains how to use those Minolta lenses that we horde on newer Canon digital bodies.

Unfortunately the site seems to be a little dated as far as the bodies they cover, but it does show the conversion necessary. This is really interesting stuff.

While I’m at it, there is also a flickr group devoted to this, http://www.flickr.com/groups/md-eos/

EOS bodies
Minolta Rokkor Lenses

Here is a wonderful resource for anyone looking at older cameras. http://www.earlyphotography.co.uk has fantastic pictures and descriptions of many early cameras. These range from Camera Obscura and Wet Plate Cameras to TLR and 35mm SLRs to Disguised and Miniature (Spy) cameras. This is a really well done site and it’s very appreciated. While the reference material isn’t exhaustive, there are plenty of pictures and good descriptions of the cameras. There are also Company Details, British Patents and Serial Numbers.

The ovation network is having a photography week this week until Sunday, November 29, 2009. I just found this cable station last night and watched a few programs that were good.

The programs they have in their schedule are:
The True Meaning of Pictures
Jazz Seen
David LaChapelle: Portrait of a Photographer
Close Up: Portraits
Close Up: Photographers At Work
Picture This
The Eloquent Nude
Cindy Sherman: Nobody’s Here But Me
The Genius of Photography: Fixing the Shadows
The Genius of Photography: Document for Artists
The Genius of Photography: Right Time, Right Place
The Genius of Photography: Paper Movies
The Genius of Photography: We Are Family
The Genius of Photography: Snap Judgments
Sally Mann: What Remains