FAQ List
GUIDE TO REC.PHOTO FAQs
The original maintainer of this pointer was Bo-Ming Tong
(bmtong@cs.arizona.edu). After August 20, 1995, it is being maintained by
John N. Wall (jnweg@unity.ncsu.edu).
This edition was last revised on September 18, 1995 and I am designating it
version 3.24. This version includes a new FAQ for infrared photography
(thanks to Rui Pedro Mendes Salgueiro), a new address for Kiev cameras, a
new address for Canon FD cameras (thanks to Magnus Oestvall), a FAQ for
Mamiya cameras (thanks to Jan-jaap Aue), and a flash FAQ (thanks to Olivier
Jadot), most added since last week. There are also some revisions in the
opening that try to explain how to use the rec.photo newsgroups more
effectively. (JNW)
The Nikon FAQ is still being maintained by Bo-Ming Tong, and is available
at
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/people/bmtong
This file is a list of repositories for the FAQs of rec.photo.* newsgroups.
Please send additions and corrections to John N. Wall
(jnweg@unity.ncsu.edu).
I will post it weekly to the rec.photo newsgroups. It is also available on
my World Wide Web home page. The address is
http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/users/j/jnweg/html/
Please try to get the FAQs you need by ftp and WWW. Some documents are also
obtainable by sending an empty message to an automatic mail server.
This FAQ may be copied and distributed freely except for direct commercial
advantage. The maintainer made his best efforts to ensure the accuracy of
the information in this FAQ. However, the maintainer does not assume any
responsibility for losses and damages resulting from the use of the
information in this FAQ. Use the information at your own risk.
NEWCOMER INFORMATION
Welcome to the rec.photo newsgroups (known collectively as rec.photo.*)!
If you are a newcomer looking for a recommendation of a beginner's camera,
take a look at the vendor specific FAQs first (Canon, Minolta, Nikon, etc)
which are listed below.
After that, you may post a question to the appropriate rec.photo newsgroup,
depending on the nature of the question. The rec.photo newsgroups are now
in a transitional phase, with some older groups having been deleted and new
ones created. Some of us still do not have the new groups, but everyone has
rec.photo.misc, rec.photo.marketplace, and rec.photo.darkroom, left over from
the earlier array of newsgroups.
Do not post requests for information to rec.photo.marketplace.
Rec.photo.marketplace is for the buying, selling and trading of personal
used photographic equipment, not for questions.
Nor should you post offers to sell or buy camera gear to any newsgroup
EXCEPT rec.photo.marketplace. You can get flamed if you do.
PURCHASE OF CAMERAS BY MAIL ORDER
If you are trying to order a camera in the US, the mail-order survey is a
MUST-READ. Many mail order houses are dishonest, advertise false prices,
charge your account without your authorization and refuse to take back
wrongly-shipped articles, etc. The mail-order survey gives statistics on
customer satisfaction and you will learn which store to avoid.
CAMERAS:
ADDRESSES OF MANUFACTURERS
ftp://moink.nmsu.edu/rec.photo/photo-addresses
CAMERA FEATURES COMPARISON
ftp://moink.nmsu.edu/rec.photo/
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/people/bmtong/photo.html
CAMERA REPAIR
http://math.liu.se/~behal/photo/index.html
VENDOR SPECIFIC FAQ SITES:
CANON EOS
http://www.ios.com/~badger/
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~acs/photography/index.html
ftp://relay.cs.toronto.edu/pub/acs/rec.photo/canon/
ftp://moink.nmsu.edu/rec.photo/canon/
http://avocado.pc.helsinki.fi/archives/eos/
http://math.liu.se/~behal/photo/faqs_docs.html#faqs
http://i30www.ira.uka.de/~schroiff/lenstest.html
CANON FD
http://www.pt.hk-r.se/~mpt95mos/photo/
CANONET QL17
ftp://relay.cs.toronto.edu/pub/acs/rec.photo/cameras/
EXAKTA 66/PENTACON 6/KIEV 60
http://kbssun1.tamu.edu/~fdchen/
GRAPHIC/GRAFLEX
ftp://relay.cs.toronto.edu/pub/acs/rec.photo/cameras/
KIEV 88/66
http://math.liu.se/~behal/photo/faqs_docs.html#faqs
http://users.aol.com/kievrpt/home
The Kiev Report FAQ is also available via fpt at
users.aol.com/kievrpt
MAMIYA
http://www.phys.rug.nl/mk/people/aue/photo.html
METZ 32 MZ-3
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/people/bmtong/photo.html
MINOLTA
http://tronic.rit.edu:80/Minolta/
http://math.liu.se/~behal/photo/index.html
MINOX
http://math.liu.se/~behal/photo/Minox_Models_List
NIKON
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/people/bmtong/photo.html
http://math.liu.se/~behal/photo/index.html
email to ritphoto@rit.edu, subject NIKON-FAQ$txt, empty message
OLYMPUS
http://www.oih.no/~brynila2/olympus/
ftp://moink.nmsu.edu/rec.photo/lens-testing/
PENTAX
ftp://ftp.cdt.luth.se/jem/foto/pfaq/pentax-faq.txt
http://www.pentax.com/
http://www.mat.uc.pt/~rps/photos
SURVEYS (VERY IMPORTANT to people who are going to buy cameras in the US)
MAIL ORDER
http://math.liu.se/~behal/photo/photographic_mail_order_survey
WALK-IN STORE
ftp://moink.nmsu.edu/rec.photo/walk-in-camera-store-survey
LENS:
CANON
http://i30www.ira.uka.de/~schroiff/lenstest.html
DOF SOFTWARE
http://math.liu.se/~behal/photo/index.html
DOF DATA
ftp://moink.nmsu.edu/rec.photo/formulae/dof.data
LENS FAQ
http://math.liu.se/~behal/photo/index.html
LENS TUTORIAL
http://math.liu.se/~behal/photo/index.html
LENS TESTS: SUMMARIES OF PUBLISHED TESTS AND CHARTS FOR DO-IT-YOURSELF
TESTING
ftp://moink.nmsu.edu/rec.photo/lens-testing/
http://i30www.ira.uka.de/~schroiff/lenstest.html
USED LENSES
http://www.epp.cmu.edu/~tw1u/faq.html
ACCESSORIES:
BOGEN/MANFROTTO
http://www.mat.uc.pt/~rps/photos/manfrotto.txt
FILTERS
ftp://moink.nmsu.edu/rec.photo/filter-info/
FLASH
http://www.mat.uc.pt/~rps/photos/flash.faq
POLARIZER/UV
http://morra.et.tudelft.nl/~richardg/filters.html
FILM:
BLACK AND WHITE
ftp://moink.nmsu.edu/rec.photo/b-and-w-faq
DX CODING
ftp://relay.cs.toronto.edu/pub/acs/rec.photo/technology/
ftp://moink.nmsu.edu/rec.photo/misc/DX-codes
FILMS DATA
ftp://moink.nmsu.edu/rec.photo/films-data-chart
TECHNIQUE:
DARKROOM
http://math.liu.se/~behal/photo/index.html
ftp://moink.nmsu.edu/rec.photo/chemistry/
ftp://relay.cs.toronto.edu/pub/acs/rec.photo/printing/
INTRO TO PHOTOGRAPHY
http://math.liu.se/~behal/photo/intro-to-photography.html
http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu:/~kc3r/ps/photography.ps
WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY
ftp://relay.cs.toronto.edu/pub/acs/rec.photo/weddings/
http://math.liu.se/~behal/photo/index.html
INFRARED PHOTOGRAPHY
http://www.mat.uc.pt/~rps/photos
STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY
http://math.liu.se/~behal/photo/index.html
ZONE SYSTEM
ftp://moink.nmsu.edu/rec.photo/zone-system/
http://math.liu.se/~behal/photo/index.html
RIT MAIL SERVER
email to
ritphoto@rit.edu
, subject FAQ$txt, empty message
MISCELLANEOUS:
ASMP COPYRIGHT GUIDE
ftp://moink.nmsu.edu/rec.photo/asmp-copyright-guide
LIST OF MAILING LISTS
http://math.liu.se/~behal/photo/index.html
OPTICS FOR BIRDING
ftp://relay.cs.toronto.edu/pub/acs/rec.photo/misc/
PHOTO CD
ftp://moink.nmsu.edu/rec.photo/photoCD/
ftp://relay.cs.toronto.edu/pub/acs/rec.photo/digital/
PHOTOGRAPHY EXPERIMENTS
ftp://moink.nmsu.edu/rec.photo/experiments/
PHOTON MAGAZINE (WWW edition)
http://www.scotborders.co.uk/photon/
REC.PHOTO FAQ
http://math.liu.se/~behal/photo/index.html
REC.PHOTO.* CHARTERS
ftp://moink.nmsu.edu/rec.photo/charters_guides
STOCKPHOTO MAILING LIST
http://odyssey.apana.org.au/~joel_day/STOCKPHOTO.HTML
NOTE TO FTP USERS:
Even if you don't have WWW access, documents at
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/people/bmtong/photo.html
can be downloaded by anonymous ftp to
ftp://cs.arizona.edu/people/bmtong/photo.html --
John N. Wall, Professor of English, North Carolina State
University (919) 515 - 4162. Department of English, Box 8105,
North Carolina State
University, Raleigh, NC 27695-8105. jnweg@unity.ncsu.edu.