Collecting & Using Classic Cameras by Ivor Matanle
How best to begin a review but in the author's own words? Chapter 1 (subtitled: It's harder. It takes longer. The results are no better. So why do you do…
Collecting & Using Classic SLRs by Ivor Matanle
A delightful book by a delightful writer. Matanle writes as if he and the reader are sitting at the kitchen table drinking coffee and passing cameras back and forth. And…
Restoring the Great Collectible Cameras: (1945-1970)by Thomas Tomosy
Tomosy's 4th book consists of only five chapters: Rangefinders with lens shuttersRangefinders with focal plane shuttersSLR's with focal plane shuttersSLR's with lens shuttersMedium format. Many classic cameras are covered, none…
Restoring Classic & Collectible Cameras by Thomas Tomosy
It seems that with every Tomosy book I buy, it gets smaller and the price gets higher. This is his third book. Finally he breaks with the 3 section format…
Advanced Techniques (Camera Maintenance & Repair, Book 2) by Thomas Tomosy
One would have hoped that Book 2 would have gone deeper into camera design/manufacturing theory so a well grounded understanding of camera functions could have been gleaned, and the aspiring…
Fundamental Techniques (Camera Maintenance & Repair, Book 1) by Thomas Tomosy, Michael McBroom
If one is a complete novice at camera repair (or tinkering as I prefer to call it), this is the book to read. Not because it is the best but…
Revised Basic Training in Camera Repair (Photocopy) by Edward H. Romney
If I could only keep one repair manual, this is the one I'd keep. As King Solomon said, "With all your getting, get understanding." This is the difference between Romney…