Medfmt.8k.com/bronica gone forever?

[jonw]

Just getting back into medium format again....just can't find old Sherman website. Is the gone? Gone forever? Thank you for you help.

 

[jonw]

Just found it here: http://jerseycity.neocities.org/

Assuming I pasted it correctly.

 

[jonw]

Just found it here: http://jerseycity.neocities.org/

Assuming I pasted it correctly.

It only shows the 1st page....can't find any information...

 

[moto-uno]

I haven't been able to find this website for at least 1/2 decade . I really enjoyed it , so if it's still
out there I'd love to find it too. PS; Bronica = Good !
Peter

 

[GRHazelton]

Alas, the links I tried on the http://jerseycity.neocities.org/ dreaded error 404. Waaaaaah.....

 

[choiliefan]

I've been researching Bronica cameras as well and came up with http://web.archive.org/web/20030628185847/http://medfmt.8k.com/bronica.html
Many of the links are still alive with information. Amazing, really.

 

[Dan Fromm]

Amazing, really.

Wayback machine, really, not amazing.

Web sites and links to them are ephemeral. If you find a site or page that you want to keep around, save it on www.archive.org. I've done that with every link in my list of useful photography-related links that can be archived, also with every archivable link in my Mexican cookbook.

Be aware that some of the sites pointed to by links on the archive.org page you gave a link to have moved or no longer exist. I'm not interested enough in Bronica stuff to track down the missing and archive them. If you are, please do it.

 

[GRHazelton]

I've been researching Bronica cameras as well and came up with http://web.archive.org/web/20030628185847/http://medfmt.8k.com/bronica.html
Many of the links are still alive with information. Amazing, really.

Many thanks for the site! It is a treasure trove of information.

 

[jonw]

Yes, many thanks....it has been too many years since I have used my Bronica workhorses. To many lens, bodies, etc which are begging to be used.

 

[choiliefan]

Wayback machine, really, not amazing.

Web sites and links to them are ephemeral. If you find a site or page that you want to keep around, save it on www.archive.org. I've done that with every link in my list of useful photography-related links that can be archived, also with every archivable link in my Mexican cookbook.

Be aware that some of the sites pointed to by links on the archive.org page you gave a link to have moved or no longer exist. I'm not interested enough in Bronica stuff to track down the missing and archive them. If you are, please do it.

Actually most of the medium and large format camera and lens links I clicked were alive. Lots of information to be gleaned from the early days of the internet. Perhaps someone with better computer skills than I possess will come along and archive the Monaghan photography site for posterity.

 

[Dan Fromm]

Actually most of the medium and large format camera and lens links I clicked were alive. Lots of information to be gleaned from the early days of the internet. Perhaps someone with better computer skills than I possess will come along and archive the Monaghan photography site for posterity.

That's what archive.org does. No need to reinvent that wheel. Archive.org's home page has a search window. Its in the middle of the screen. Cut the link you want archive.org to save, paste it into the search window, click on GO. Archive.org will come back with a list of the dates on which the page was saved or will tell you that the page is available and will offer to save it. If the latter, click on yes.

Minimal skills required, just doing it. About just doing it, as I've already said everything on the 'net is ephemeral. Save it now or regret not having saved it later, my motto.

 

[mweintraub]

I think I'm going to try to find out if I can get permission to archive this stuff on my hosted site. We're losing some good info all the time.

 

[Dan Fromm]

I think I'm going to try to find out if I can get permission to archive this stuff on my hosted site. We're losing some good info all the time.

You're not going to live forever and neither is your site. Archive.com is the best chance we have to preserve what's on the web indefinitely. No permission is needed to get it to archive pages and sites.

 

[mweintraub]

You're not going to live forever and neither is your site. Archive.com is the best chance we have to preserve what's on the web indefinitely. No permission is needed to get it to archive pages and sites.

True, archive.com might not last either.

 

[Dan Fromm]

True, archive.com might not last either.

The odds favor it over you.

 

[mweintraub]

The odds favor it over you.

True, but. but but... fine!

 

[choiliefan]

Dan, I signed up and tried uploading to archive.org but couldn't complete the action. It appears to me that the reason the OP's link wouldn't work is because the live links weren't uploaded as well. Does each link need to be manually added somehow? Time permitting, I'll work on it more and perhaps succeed. Your guidance is appreciated.

 

[Dan Fromm]

Yes, exactly. Decide which of the live links you want to have preserved and put them, one at a time, in the archive.org window. Some of them may have been archived already.

It seems that if you want to upload a document to archive.org you have to have an ID. But not to have it save a page that already exists.

Not a lot of fun but when you think it has to be done you should do it. I have an enormous Mexican cookbook in a gigantic pdf. The book is full of links to references and other versions of the recipes in it. After I decided the linked pages needed to be preserved I put all that could be archived in archive.com. Tedious, necessary. Thank heavens for cut and paste!