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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Antispam question: Please provide registration password: Answer: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON New! Upload Image Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by Vlad[/i] [br]Just thought I'd share my evaluation of this publication: I've recently purchased this book "Camera: A History of Photography from Daguerreotype to Digital" by Todd Gustavson published by George Eastman House on recommendation of a few local camera collectors here and was pleasantly surprised finding a few mentions of Soviet cameras with photographs like Sport, FT-2, F-21, Komsomolets, FED and maybe one or two others. Unfortunately there are a few small inaccuracies in the descriptions, like for FT-2 it says it's made for artillery photography which was disputed here earlier and the city name of Berdsk is written as "Bersk" for FED and it is "blatant" [:)] in saying that Sport is second ever 35mm SLR which is a disputed fact. [:)]. The author seemed to have referenced dated materials in some cases, and does not look like JLP was even referenced. Aside from all this - this is a very beautiful and heavy book, lots of color high quality images, great thick paper stock, I think a must for all camera collectors. It of course does not cover everything which is impossible but touches on essentials. Obviously it gets somewhat heavy on some Kodak stuff, but plenty of Daguerreotype cameras. Here's a link to it on Amazon - it seems to be on special sale as well. http://bit.ly/FkFGR Cheers, Vlad. [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.