MIR

[Nikon Collector]

Is the MIR site down, removed, or what?

 

[OldBodyOldSoul]

MIR has been up and down recently. Sometimes only certain pages would be inaccessible and sometimes every click would produce an error. Hopefully it's just maintenance.

 

[AgX]

It would be a pity if that site went down.

The first address for information on certain camera models (as for instance Canon A and T series).

 

[Roger Cole]

What is the MIR site?

 

[MartinCrabtree]

It's a camera reference site based in Maylaysia. Quite a resource and down yet again. Hopefully they will get it fixed.

MIR

 

[Poisson Du Jour]

The authors haven't really got an interest in maintaining the site. The analogue camera resource, and everybody would agree it is hugely informative if technically quite deep and a little grammatically akimbo, was a spin-off prior to starting their now quite large and expansive internet company — they are really, really busy people. I worked on the EOS 1N-series resource, moderated the message board and vetted submissions; everything took a long, long time to get done (communication was poor and very untimely). I left years ago (2005 I think) yet I still get message posts directed at me!

 

[flatulent1]

The latest archive snapshot is here.

 

[Lamar]

Hope they get it back up. That is a great resource. It's my go-to reference for my old Nikon gear. Thanks for posting the archive link. I've bookmarked it.

 

[E. von Hoegh]

It's back up.

 

[clayne]

I'm considering mirroring it myself. I've seen it go down before and I started getting the bad feelings then.

 

[Trask]

What does mirroring mean in this context? And does that mean that the content of Mir would be available to you, as an individual, or to others via a website your own/manage?

 

[clayne]

Mirroring using wget (a unix utility) such that I'd have a local backup in case push came to shove and it needed to be rehosted somehow. I don't trust the Internet Archive because a: it's incredibly slow, b: it's spotty in coverage.

 

[E. von Hoegh]

Still there.