One of the greatest benefits of the content on this site is the preservation of information regarding photography and old cameras. From my camera reviews to the 100+ Keppler’s Vault articles and Zeiss Historica newsletters to the interviews in my One Hour Photo series, the Rotoloni Report, and the many guests on the Camerosity Podcast, it is important to me to document the first hand knowledge of experts for future generations. My hope is that by having a single location for people to read about a great deal of old information, that future generations will benefit from it.
During my research, I have come across a great many websites created by other people who put a lot of time and effort into documenting something, but unfortunately, not all websites last forever. Some previously great sites have sine gone offline and are no longer available for public consumption. For dead websites, the Wayback Machine at web.archive.org is a wonderful resource, but it can be very slow, difficult to navigate, and often, content like JPGs and other media is missing.
When possible, I like to archive old sites and re-host them in their original form, not only for those of you who might find them beneficial, but also for me, as I sometimes refer to them for future camera articles. In the past, I’ve previously hosted mirrors for Mike Connealy’s original camera review website and Aidas Pikiotas Sovietcams.com.
As of today, I am happy to announce full mirrors of two additional websites, the original Miranda Camera website, created by Craig Holmes in the early 2000s. This site had a lot of great information about the history of Miranda cameras, along with a great model identification guide. Unfortunately, this site was abandoned sometime around 2004 and disappeared from the web around 2020. I was able to retrieve a full backup of the site, including all images and have hosted it here for your reference.
https://mikeeckman.com/mirandacamera
In addition, I also have a mirror of Andrzej Wrotniak’s website, wrotniak.net which was an incredible resource for information about the Ihagee Exakta and the Olympus micro 4/3s system. In addition to all of his content, all images, and PDF files which made up the original site were recovered.
https://mikeeckman.com/wrotniak/
In both cases, the sites are being re-hosted in their original condition, with the only change being a very short blurb at the top of each page indicating that this is a mirror and that it is being provided for archival purposes only, and that no new content is being added. In the case of Wrotniak.net, a Gallery of Andrzej’s personal photographs was omitted as I felt it wasn’t relevant.
I hope you find these resources as useful as they have been for me, and for as long as mikeeckman.com is up, they’ll be available to you as well.