slr chronology bibliography is complete hi murderwatcher this is paul again this is to let you know that i have completed the slr chronology bibliography for you and that i am going to try to upload a pdf copy to your talk page as soon as i finish this note this may take a while because i've never uploaded a pdf before you're absolutely right it would be great if some of the old modern photography stuff could be added to wikipedia however you can be sure that they're still under copyright pre american work for hire copyrights are generally years and on years the real question is who owns the copyright today since modern went under there have been many media company sales and resales the present copyright holder would be hell to uncover and ask permission in fact the current owner might not even know that it owns modern's copyrights orphaned copyrights are a major unresolved fair use issue in the information age speaking of first cameras mine was a simple vivitar point and shoot my parents gave it to me for getting straight a's in the th grade it was of course a bad camera but it opened up a world of possibilities from the vivitar i eventually learned about the existence of the pentax auto slr it was then one step to mm slrs and i got a nikon fe in the fe is also the reason why the bulk of my modern photography magazine citations begin around i'm sorry to hear about your disputes with the admins over your non photography wkipedia entries it would be unfortunate if you felt compelled to end your wikipedia activities over them perhaps you could start a blog or create a myspace or facebook page to air these issues without worrying about what the admins want however i will respect whatever your decision is as i fully understand that the most sophisticated machine is nothing next to a human life you can reach me on my talk page thanks muchly