Newsgroups: rec.photo
Subject: Re: Database of lens information? -- Databases on Photography
From: fred-mckenzie@ksc.nasa.gov (Fred McKenzie)
Date: 14 Aug 92 16:56:53 EST
Followup-To: rec.photo
Distribution: world
Organization: NASA/Kennedy Space Center, Florida

In article <1992Aug14.130600.21363@nestroy.wu-wien.ac.at>,
mayr@risc.uni-linz.ac.at (Herwig Mayr) wrote:
 Are there any databases, archives, ... on photography
> (camera bodies, lenses, films, ...) available via internet
> or bitnet?

Herwig-

In a slightly related posting several days back, I gave the results of an
"Archie" search for photo and optic ftp sites.  I think it has died of old
age by now, so I'll give an extract of it below.

There may be one that has a major collection of photo-related files and
programs, but I don't know which it is.  Does anyone have a site that would
welcome a photo database?  We might get the people at WUArchives to
establish one, we could build our own.  (WUArchive is included below, but
the entry is a "mirror" of files that are posted elsewhere.)  By periodic
postings in this newsgroup, word could be passed that a database exists,
and that new uploads would be welcomed.

Here is the extract of the Archie search:

Possible Internet Sources for Photographic Software and Data
Based on an "Archie" scan for photo and optics.  The scan was done on
7/28/92, and much data was deleted for brevity.  The few sites that were
checked, were somewhat disappointing.

Host ames.arc.nasa.gov   (128.102.18.3)
    Location: /pub/SPACE/StEphSACetc/data.etc/sac/misc/astphoto

Host mandarin.mit.edu   (18.82.0.21)
    Location: /astro/data.etc/sac/misc/astphoto
    Location: /astro/data.etc/sac/other
    
Host cs.dal.ca   (129.173.4.5)
    Location: /pub/comp.archives/comp.graphics.visualization
    Location: /pub/comp.archives/comp.os.vms
    Location: /pub/comp.archives/soc.motss
 
Host nic.funet.fi   (128.214.6.100)
    Location: /pub/astro/pc/optic
    Location: /pub/astro/pc/dbase
       
joker.optics.rochester.edu
    Location: /archie/old/listings/sites

Host cscihp.ecst.csuchico.edu   (132.241.1.2)
    Location: /pub/397c/newoptik

Host src.doc.ic.ac.uk   (146.169.2.1)
    Location: /netlib/photo
    Location: /general/netlib/photo
    
Host ra.nrl.navy.mil   (128.60.0.21)
    Location: /MacSciTech/optics
    Location: /optics

Host rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de   (129.69.1.12)
    Location: /soft/kommunikation/news/spool/sci/optics
    Location: /soft/kommunikation/news/spool/nn/DATA
    Location: /soft/kommunikation/news/spool/rec/photo
    Location: /soft/kommunikation/news/spool/fj/rec/photo
    Location: /soft/kommunikation/news/spool/aus/photo
    Location: /serv2/soft/mac/app
    
Host animal-farm.nevada.edu   (131.216.1.11)
    Location: /pub/photo
    
Host usc.edu   (128.125.253.136)
    Location: /pub/photo

Host uxc.cso.uiuc.edu   (128.174.5.50)
    Location: /net/isode-7.0/h/quipu
    Location: /net/isode-7.0/others/quipu/photo
    Location: /net/isode-7.0/others/quipu/uips/pod

Host research.att.com   (192.20.225.2)
    Location: /netlib/photo

Host julian.uwo.ca   (129.100.2.12)
    Location: /pub/unix/X.500/isode-7.0/h/quipu
    Location: /pub/unix/X.500/isode-7.0/others/quipu/photo
    Location: /pub/unix/X.500/isode-7.0/others/quipu/uips/xdi
    Location: /pub/unix/X.500/isode-7.0/others/quipu/uips/pod
    Location:
/pub/unix/X-windows/X.V11R4/contrib/toolkits/xgks/demo/sledsrc

Host unsvax.nevada.edu   (131.216.1.30)
    Location: /pub/photo
    
Host wuarchive.wustl.edu   (128.252.135.4)
    Location: /mirrors3/archive.umich.edu/mac/development/libraries
    Location: /mirrors3/archive.umich.edu/mac/graphics/graphics.utilities
    Location: /mirrors/info-mac/app
    Location: /mirrors/msdos/screen

Host aupair.cs.athabascau.ca   (131.232.10.8)
    Location: /mac/app

Host uhunix2.uhcc.hawaii.edu   (128.171.44.7)
    Location: /mirrors/info-mac/app
    Location: /mirrors/info-mac/art/qt

Host sumex-aim.stanford.edu   (36.44.0.6)
    Location: /info-mac/app

Host oswego.oswego.edu   (129.3.1.1)
    Location: /pub/mac/app

Host cs.orst.edu   (128.193.32.1)
    Location: /pub/src/X11R4/contrib/toolkits/xgks/demo/sledsrc

Host sugrfx.acs.syr.edu   (128.230.24.1)
    Location: /pub/vr/3d/stereo_pairs/photos

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