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Camera-wiki.org Blog The free encyclopedia of photography Home About Donate! Camera-Wiki.org Flickr Group ← Older posts Happy 8th Birthday, Camera-Wiki.org! Posted on February 8, 2019 by admin Canon Camera Birthday cake created by The little elephant cake company CC BY-NC photo by Flickr user Harvinder Singh Today is Camera-Wiki ’s 8th birthday and we’re overdue for an update here on our blog! We’ve reached 8,900 Wiki articles and over 100,000 photos in our Flickr group . We are now serving over 375,000 pages views to more than 120,000 unique visitors every month! The downside to our success is that the web server’s bandwidth usage has grown to around 60GB per month. We’re in the process of transitioning to our third web hosting provider in the eight years since we launched. We started out with Dreamhost eight years ago but quickly outgrew it and since then have hosted on dedicated servers at NCC Internet Services. This year, however, we’re making a transition to Google Cloud , a big change for us with lots of potential for future growth. In particular the transition to Google helps us better serve our users in Europe and Asia with faster page loads. Of course, growth always come at a cost and we continue to need your help funding our hosting. Please considering making either a one-time donation or signing up for a small ongoing, monthly donation. You can do either by going to the Camera-Wiki.org Donation page and clicking the donate link. With your help, we look forward to celebrating Camera-Wiki’s 9th birthday next year! If you’d prefer to make a donation by a method other than PayPal, let us know in the comments below. We’re considering adding support for Bitcoin donations and perhaps a Patreon page. Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment Happy 6th Birthday, Camera-Wiki.org! Posted on February 7, 2017 by admin Camera cake photo by Joseolgon (cc by-sa) Six years and we’re still here, still adding photos, still adding new articles. The additional bandwidth of our current host has allowed our continued growth while maintaining reasonable page load times for our international users. Our editors and contributors will be busy adding more new articles in 2017 and we expect to continue improving the server and backend software as well. Here’s a snapshot of how we’re doing: Camera-Wiki.org now has 8,536 articles Our Camera-Wiki.org Flickr group has grown to more than 95,000 photos And thanks to generous donations from people like you, Camera-Wiki.org still has zero ads. But, the bigger we get, the more expensive it is to pay for all this. So, if you find Camera-Wiki.org useful, please consider making a donation so we can keep up the work of documenting all the world’s cameras and lenses. And we’re also always on the look out for volunteers to help with the site content. If you know how to use MediaWiki sites (like Wikipedia), you’ll feel right at home editing here because Camera-Wiki.org uses the same software. Ask an existing editor on our Flickr group if you’d like to have an account on the wiki. Or if you have photos of old camera or lenses, please post them to flickr and add them to the Camera-Wiki.org Flickr group so we can include them in articles. Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment Happy 4th Birthday, Camera-Wiki.org! Posted on February 8, 2015 by admin Camera Cake photo by Flickr user RJ Aquino (cc by-nc-sa) Where does the time go? Seems like only yesterday we were celebrating the third anniversary of our launch! We have a great birthday gift for our users this year. We’ve moved our hosting away from Dreamhost. While Dreamhost provided acceptable service at a super low cost when we launched, we’ve outgrown it as our user base and bandwidth requirements increased. Our international users were seeing frequent outages and long page-loading times. Those problems should be behind us now. There is still plenty of room to make further improvements but if you haven’t visited the site in a while, give it a try today and see what you think. Now, for the annual stats! Our editors have now created over 7,880 articles . Our Camera-Wiki.org Flickr group has grown to almost 80,000 photos. And thanks to generous donations from people like you, Camera-Wiki.org still has zero ads. Of course, there’s still lots of work left to do though. So many cameras and lenses are still completely undocumented. There are still websites here and there linking to the old camerapedia domain instead of camera-wiki.org. And we’re always in need of more help – so join us and help out! Login and become an editor , make a donation , contribute a photo, or help out in some other way . Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment Happy 3rd Birthday, Camera-Wiki.org! Posted on February 7, 2014 by admin Camera Cake photo by Flickr user futureshape (cc-by) Believe it or not, it’s been three years since we launched Camera-Wiki.org to create a new home for the camerapedia community and continue the job of documenting the world’s cameras. So, where are we now? Here are a few milestones: Our editors have created over 7,500 camera articles Our Camera-Wiki Flickr group has grown to more than 70,000 photos Thanks to generous donations from people like you, we are still able to pay our hosting bill with no advertising on the site! There’s still lots of work to do though. So many cameras and lenses are still completely undocumented. There are still websites out there linking to the old camerapedia domain instead of camera-wiki.org. And we’re always in need of more help – so join us and help out! Login and become an editor , make a donation , contribute a photo , or help out in some other way . Posted in About Camera-wiki.org | Leave a comment Argus Day 2012 Posted on August 6, 2012 by Steevithak Argus C3 Ad from November, 1949 issue of US Camera Do you have an Argus camera? Maybe an Argus C3 aka the brick”? Or the slightly more elegant Argus C-4 rangefinder ? Maybe you prefer 120 film and use an Argoflex E TLR ? Whatever your Argus of choice, it’s time to dust it off and load some film because Sunday, 12 August, 2012 is Argus Day ! Argus was an American camera company founded in 1936 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The company made some of the most well-known American-made cameras in history. The Argus C3 rangefinder was manufactured for 27 years and was one of the best selling 35mm cameras ever made. Back in 2001, James M. Surprenant, Marcy Merrill and other members of the Argus Collectors Group wanted to create a fun way to raise awareness of Argus cameras and encourage people to use them. They came up with the idea of a new camera holiday called Argus Day. It works like most other camera holidays; the idea is to get out and shoot a roll of film with any type of Argus camera. Afterwards you can scan the film and post them online. Some years the ACG holds a contest for the best photos. Even when there’s no contest, you’re welcome to post your results to the Flickr Argus Camera Group , so others can enjoy them. What is a little different about Argus Day compared to other camera holidays is that the date changes each year. There’s a simple mathematical formula to find the date on which Argus Day falls. Take the current year and subtract 2000 from it. Add the result to July 31 and you’ve got the date of this year’s Argus Day. For example, in 2012 we’d do it like this: 2012 – 2000 = 12. so add 12 to Jul 31 and get Aug 12. The calculated date is sometimes referred to as Argust n” where n” is the numerical value derived from the above formula. So, in 2012 the day is called Argust 12” and falls on August 12, 2012. In 2040, the day will be Argust 40” and fall on September 9, 2040). If you’re interested in Argus cameras and haven’t done so already, consider joining the Argus Collectors Group . And, of course, consider helping us out with the Argus camera articles here at Camera-Wiki.org! We also need more editors to improve our articles, more photos of cameras to use in articles, and donations to help keep...