365cameras.com

Wait, this isn’t just that cameraless kind of camera obscura.

Camera Obscura is a wonderful site full of fine art photography and stories behind the photographs. The tag line says that it’s a blog dedicated to photography and contemporary art.

This is one of my new favorite sites on the web. I don’t know why it took me so long to find. It has obviously been around quite a while

Here is a fantastic resource if you would like to see pictures of Field Cameras of the United States: 1879-1930

There are pages devoted to: American Optical Company, The E. & H.T. Anthony Companies, The Blair Companies, Century Camera Co., The George Eastman Companies, G. Gennert, The Gundlach/Manhattan Companies, Rochester Optical Co., Scovill Mfg. Co., Seneca Camera Co., and miscellaneous other companies.

Be sure to look into each page because those companies owned several other smaller companies or had other names over time.

If you like old field cameras or even if you prefer all new view cameras, you owe it to yourself to check out this incredible resource.

Today, I decided to go back to rangefinders and mention RangefinderForum.com

This forum has extensive coverage of rangefinder cameras and is well worth visiting if you’re into them.

The thing I really like is that since the site is devoted to rangefinders, that category is well distributed among many different individual forum topics. I think there are over 25 separate categories of rangefinders on the site. That makes it nice for finding specific information.

As expected there are other topics for discussion, eg. darkroom or TLRs, but the rangefinder information is what really shines.

There also classified and gallery sections. The gallery is accessible even if you’re not a member.

I really like this site and recommend that you check it out.