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500 Cameras: 170 Years of Photographic Innovation [Paperback]

Todd Gustavson , George Eastman House
4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)

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Book Description

November 1, 2011
From the world-famous Eastman House comes a lavish, expansive guide to nearly 200 years of photographic invention and innovation. Richly visual and wonderfully informative, it showcases 500 groundbreaking cameras from the museum's collection that forever changed our perception of the world, and of ourselves.
 
Todd Gustavson, curator of technology at the George Eastman House, organizes the cameras into genealogical categories--from detective to digital, stereo to subminiature. Alongside the 35mm, you'll see curiosities like stereoscopic cameras, postcard cameras, and spy cameras hidden in watches, buttons, and fountain pens.

Essays by experts in the field--including Robert Shanebrook, Martin Scott, and Mark Osterman--trace the technological development of the camera and provide insight into the innovators behind the lens.

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"With so many pages of beautiful photographs and text, this is a book that any photographer or camera collector would want to own . . . Highly recommended." --Choice 

About the Author

Todd Gustavson is curator of technology at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York. He is responsible for the cataloging, storage, and maintenance of one of the world's largest collections of photographic and cinematic equipment, containing more than 20,000 artifacts. He has curated or co-curated many exhibitions for the museum, including the critically acclaimed traveling exhibition “The Brownie at 100.” His previous book, Camera: A History of Photography from Daguerreotype to Digital, was published by Sterling in 2009.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 480 pages
  • Publisher: Sterling Signature (November 1, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1402780869
  • ISBN-13: 978-1402780868
  • Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 1.1 x 8.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #150,106 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Informative November 15, 2011
By kenmet
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As a Graflex collector, I thoroughly enjoyed Mr. Gustavson's presentation of these cameras. The cameras were crisply photographed, accurately described and presented with insightful comments. Also, the indexes of cameras and subjects are a plus. I assume this high level is given to other cameras; therefore, I would recommend his book for the collector and general reader.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Too many cameras, not enough time June 22, 2012
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Delightful, a history of featuring great pictures, brief description all broken into different categories ; field cameras, twin lens reflex, 35mm, sub-miniatures, etc. There is the odd little info pages thrown in as well, history of Eastman, history of Lieca, erc.

It is written by a guy who worked and catalogued for the Eastman museum so it features ALOT of Kodak equipment BUT does balance it with everybody else, Germany, Japan, Britain, France ...

Worth the purchase although I now am haunting eBay looking at these classic beauties ... be warned!
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5.0 out of 5 stars awesome reference for camera buffs May 12, 2013
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this book arrived and I couldn't wait to dive in. I love old cameras and this book did not disappoint. every page is a different camera beautifully photographed with interesting text to match. a great book for those of us interesting in vintage cameras. the book goes back to the earliest cameras and includes some modern ones as well. a great reference book. highly recommended.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
3.0 out of 5 stars Nice book
It's a very nice book,, but I was looking for one that had more Kodak cameras and there is one with just Kodak.
Published 22 days ago by David L Cooper
4.0 out of 5 stars 500 cameras
Great photos, interesting background info on all sorts of cameras leading up to what we have today, but in many respects the content is oh so similar to other titles you'll find... Read more
Published 23 days ago by Marshal Shlafer
5.0 out of 5 stars Love this book
This was a gift and the recipient loved this book. He was able to get information on the cameras he has started to collect from this book.
Published 2 months ago by consumer
3.0 out of 5 stars A well photographed coffee table book.....
Todd Gustavson's book is limited by being based on cameras available from the George Eastman House collection, and it is too full of errors and omissions to be a serious reference. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Charles Woodhouse
5.0 out of 5 stars Very Interesting Read about Historic Cameras
Every camera today has it's roots in the past. Every camera in this book brings about some kind of innovation that moved the state of the art of photography forward. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Speedy
3.0 out of 5 stars Like walking through a museum
Reading through this book is a lot like walking through a museum created in the 1950s. The text is very matter of fact, as if written by a museum curator, not by an author. Read more
Published 12 months ago by R. Bennett
5.0 out of 5 stars 500 Cameras
Like it very much. Just what I've been looking for. Does Fiji have a instruction book like the Nikons & Canons?
Published 12 months ago by Tom
5.0 out of 5 stars Book for camera collectors
This is a great book for camera collectors. A lot of research have gone into this book and I congratulate the author and publisher of this book. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Manny Inumerable
5.0 out of 5 stars a wonderful resource book
At a recent show at the Phillips Gallery in Washington, a "Kodak # 2 Bulls Eye" camera (circa 1896) was encased in glass along with other turn-of-the-century cameras used by the... Read more
Published 15 months ago by John E. Drury
4.0 out of 5 stars A Nice Survey of Cameras
One of the nice things with books about the GEH collection is that we get to see cameras that range from common to rare and unusually exotic. Read more
Published 15 months ago by rniederman
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