Re: Cool MF sites

[Greg Erker <erker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>One is the MF Articles Page at:
>>
>>http://www.smu.edu/~rmonagha/mf/index.html
>
>This is an excellent site... if you look carefully, you'll find several
>references to and from our own Greg Erker and some of his Ricoh MF
>endeavors if I'm remembering correctly...

  Bob Monaghan is a great guy and his pages are
a great wealth of information though you may have
to do a lot of reading to find it.

  I am a little iffy on his collecting usenet postings
on subjects and making pages from them. Posting on usenet
is just chatting (mostly) so people aren't as careful
as if they were writing up something for a web page.
Still (mostly) good info there.

  I'm mentioned in several places on Bob's page for
some Bronica scans and photos I've sent him as well
as the 57x1mm threaded adapters my brother-in-law
made (and I sold over the internet for him). He also
has my Ricohflex information page linked, and possibly
my Achromatic Closeup lens page.


>>http://www.skgrimes.com/iris/index.htm
>
>
>This is Steve Grimes; I've posted with regard to him previously on the
>lists. For years, he owned SK Grimes Camera repair here in Boston; the work
>out of this shop had (and still has under different ownership) a mixed
>reputation. Steve is on his own now for the past five years or so, and his
>large format reputation is one of being a decent hacker/patcher who can fix
>your old equipment up if no one else can...

  I've only heard good things about SK's large
format customizing/hacking. Though I don't have
any direct experience with him. The aperture
engraving would seem like a low risk thing to
have done by him.

Greg