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Summary: McBroom Writes a Most Useable Book!
Review: I bought my first McBroom Price Guide to Modern Cameras in 1991, and have added subsequent updates as they have become available.
He gives information about readily available equipment and accessories, with prices.
It is a valuable guide to everyone who enjoys buying and using cameras.If you are interested in older cameras that are still available, they also are described here. Armed with this book, you can shop for cameras with confidence.
I recommend it highly!
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Summary: Comprehensive, useful, and recommended!
Review: I have found this book to be very informative, helping me to appraise, buy and sell with confidence. I have noticed that some of the prices for rarer items are somewhat inflated in the book, as well as items in the book being priced to low compared to real-world (like eBay) prices, but, that is how the market is. Overall, if not for the prices, the specifics of each camera model covered are well worth the price!
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Summary: McBroom's Camera Bluebook
Review: I just received the latest edition and as with the previous edition I've owned for five years it looks like a winner. I buy and sell a lot of used cameras and these guides are an invaluable quick pricing reference tool for me. No guide can cover everything, but this guide does an impressive job.
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Summary: A Not So Thorough Camera Guide
Review: McBroom's Bluebook is a disappointmeny for me. Most of the info is available in currrent photo magazines. There simply is very little information on vintage cameras. For example; Zeiss, one of the very greatest lens and camera manufacturers, rates one page and one camera model. This book merely skims the surface and spends far too much space on contemporary cameras for which information is available from other readily available sources. Sorry, I'm not happy with it.
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Summary: A Not So Thorough Camera Guide
Review: McBroom's Bluebook is a disappointmeny for me. Most of the info is available in currrent photo magazines. There simply is very little information on vintage cameras. For example; Zeiss, one of the very greatest lens and camera manufacturers, rates one page and one camera model. This book merely skims the surface and spends far too much space on contemporary cameras for which information is available from other readily available sources. Sorry, I'm not happy with it.
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Summary: If you buy photo gear to USE, this book's for you.
Review: Over ten years ago, I began to dabble in buying and selling photo equipment. My initial goal was innocent enough: I wanted to convert my old, manual-focus system over to an autofocus one, and I saw the world of camera shows and camera swap meets as a way to accomplish this task in a reasonably quick and efficient manner. The only problem was, the whole process of buying and selling photo gear quickly became a pursuit in and of itself. And just to complicate matters, there was so much STUFF, and so little time to try and determine its value, from both a buying and selling point of view. Very soon thereafter, I realized that I was spending most of my time in pursuit of cool gear trying to determine its value. Hours were spent combing through ads in the various photo publications, or scouring dealers' tables at the camera shows. Surely there must have been a better way to figure out what something was worth. Surely, SOMEbody must have written a buyer's guide for photo gear that people buy to USE. But, alas, there were NONE geared for the buyer of non-collectible photo equipment.In keeping with the hoary old saying, "Necessity is the Mother of Invention," it occurred to me back in 1989 that if nobody was writing a guide for modern, user photo gear, maybe -- just maybe -- there might be a market for one. And thus, with the brash innocence of an optimistic neophyte, I decided that I might as well be that person. I wrote and self-published the first edition of what was to become _McBroom's Camera Bluebook_ later that year. Now, 11 years and 6 editions later, _McBroom's_ is arguably still the only camera buyer's guide of its type. Sure, there is inevitable overlap between great user cameras and collectible cameras, but the collectible cameras that are included in my book are still those that have a substantial following of PHOTOGRAPHERS. Some people still don't get this point, and for those folks, I can only recommend that they seek solace in one of the many well-researched collectors guides available. _McBroom's Camera Bluebook_ is, and continues to be a buyer's guide for popular new and used photo gear -- the sort of gear that you and I buy to take photographs with. In that respect, I've tried to make it as comprehensive as possible. When you page through a copy of my book, you're not reading a selection of articles and a compilation of data accumulated by a large staff of people (I wish!). No, everything between the pages of my book have been written and compiled by a single person: Michael McBroom. Perhaps someday, with your support, the book's popularity will swell to the point where I will require a staff, but until then, it's just me doing the best I can to assemble the information in a format that is as easy for you to digest as I can possibly make it. If it makes your quest for really cool photo stuff just a little easier, or if it helps to reduce the anxiety level of having to part with your really cool gear, then I figure I've done my job.
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Summary: The Most Comprehensive Camera Pricing and Buyer's Guide
Review: This authoritative reference book has been completely updated to include information on the latest models, prices and equipment. Packed with the same high-quality information as previous editions, this sixth edition features significant additions that make it a must-have volume for camera buyers and sellers. These include revised and expanded price listings for the latest models, new sections on Advanced Photo System and Digital cameras, and fully illustrated descriptions of all the major camera and lens lines. This is a book about cameras and photographic equipment that people buy to USE; it is NOT a collector's price guide, although some overlap is inevitable. The intent of the book is to provide readers with an exhaustive listing of descriptions and prices for popular photo equipment. Whether you're an amateur searching for a full guide to model and maker features and pricing information or a serious collector looking for precise, up-to-date ratings, McBroom's Camera Bluebook is sure to have the answers to all of your questions about new and used cameras, lenses, strobes, exposure meters, accessories and any other photographic equipment on the market today.
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Summary: Comprehensive, useful, and recommended!
Review: Well laid out. Impressive library of informatin here. To the person who complained about not enough detail on Zeiss, you should have read the authors' forward in the very front of the book. If you are the type to browse "Ebay" or other online auctions, or buy at flea-markets etc., you should not be without this book. It is a guide for mainstream photographic equipment, that the average photographer is going to want to buy. It is not a guide to specialized, high end or collectible goods. That being said; heres' my soapbox: I would like to see more detail in the area of lighting equipment. Currently, lighting has only prices listed, with none of the listings of features etc. of various models, such as the cameras and lenses do. Ditto for exposure meters. Also, how about going into the darkroom? I think alot more people would be interested in a buying guide to enlargers etc. than a 4x5 view camera. Overall, I'm satisfied with the book.
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Summary: Good if you buy/sell used photo equipment
Review: Well laid out. Impressive library of informatin here. To the person who complained about not enough detail on Zeiss, you should have read the authors' forward in the very front of the book. If you are the type to browse "Ebay" or other online auctions, or buy at flea-markets etc., you should not be without this book. It is a guide for mainstream photographic equipment, that the average photographer is going to want to buy. It is not a guide to specialized, high end or collectible goods. That being said; heres' my soapbox: I would like to see more detail in the area of lighting equipment. Currently, lighting has only prices listed, with none of the listings of features etc. of various models, such as the cameras and lenses do. Ditto for exposure meters. Also, how about going into the darkroom? I think alot more people would be interested in a buying guide to enlargers etc. than a 4x5 view camera. Overall, I'm satisfied with the book.
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