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One of my favorite forums is at PentaxForums.com. There is a huge amount of material there from lens reviews to photo galleries. This includes good old film and DSLR material. It’s well worth checking out if you haven’t been there.

Two of my favorite sections of their forums are the Takumar club and the Pentax Medium Format forum.

Please check this site out even if you don’t shoot Pentax.

BTW, if you don’t shoot Pentax, you really should. Excellent lenses. Excellent bodies.

I always laugh when I see an ad on craigslist and some dolt lists a Pentax camera as great for students.

They’re great for anyone.

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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.

If you have the urge to fix up an old camera, I have a good site for you. The Classic Camera Repair Forum

The site has several thousand posts over a varied landscape of cameras. This is a good place to learn some camera repair tricks and ask questions of people that might be helpful.

I greatly appreciated the free online camera repair manuals Be sure to check the links at the bottom of the page if you don’t see anything that fits your needs.

This also has some nice free camera repair articles.

The free camera instruction manuals are a welcome addtion.

This site has become one of my favorite stomping grounds lately.

I should say though that if you are considering working on a valuable camera and you haven’t done it before, you are impatient, you are lacking technique, you won’t pay for proper oil or proper tools, please have a qualified repair person fix your camera for you or donate it to me. 😉 There is no sense in ruining it.

One thing you might need is a donor camera or even a camera to fix up. Be sure you search intelligently and you should be able to find Parts Cameras on eBay