Glorious! I stopped working and leafed through the entire ”Movie Cameras” book as soon as I saw it. An amazing work indeed, obviously a labour of love – quite simply the most comprehensive publication on cine cameras I‘ve ever seen.

I am a designer and filmmaker by trade and can honestly and enviously offer congratulations on the typography, layout, design, attention to detail, and quality of reproduction and illustration throughout.

Not only is this a valuable and interesting catalogue of a fascinating technical subject; but your professional and creative presentation opens it out beyond the specialist arena into a study of a mechanical design aesthetic that spans almost the whole of the 20th Century!

Dave Johnston, Miracles Production, Belfast, Great Britain

It‘s a marvelous work being both interesting to read and also an incredibly useful reference guide. I am absorbing it from page to page. Congratulations on a super publication.

Giles Musitano, Richmond/Surrey, United Kingdom

I received your book ”Movie Cameras”, it‘s wonderful! A very nice book. Congratulations! It‘s the first complete book about the history of movie cameras and it is the best one I know. I will show this wonderful publication to my camera collecting friends.

Shigeo Mizukawa, former camera designer
at Fuji Photo Film Co. Ltd., Japan

It is really a great book, just what we collectors need. I look forward to inform and show the book to my collector friends here in Denmark. And I am sure they will place orders to you.

Jan Fleinert, Copenhagen, Denmark

I received your book ”Movie Cameras&” with greatest joyce: an excellent work, a BIBLE. With my best congratulations!

Gilbert Bianchi, Menton, France

Your book looks beautiful and I am very impressed by the result. Especially the chapter about the Single-8 system appeals to me because I am collecting these cameras. The information is very valuable for my collection. Thank you very much.

Reindert Woudstra, Wassenaar/The Netherlands

Today I received your book ”Movie Cameras&” and I must congratulate you on producing a truly magnificent publication. The quality, illustrations, historical and model information is even better than I expected, and this is the book I have been waiting for during some 50 years of being involved with movie apparatus – both as an amateur and professional. Without doubt this is going to be THE book for all movie camera enthusiasts worldwide for many years to come, and how you got all the research and product information together without taking a whole lifetime is really amazing. I am also impressed with the full English text in addition to the German – that‘s something other German photo publishers could well follow in their books on collectable cameras.

Regarding the books translation into English: I think your associates have done a first class job. Other than the odd word or term– which usually has the same meaning – I doubt wether any American or Britain would know that it wasn‘t written in English in the first place.

I also think your book designer has done a wonderful job, especially the very large illustrations with the text flowing around them. What hits the reader is the great amount of research that was needed. I was amazed at how many movie camera companies we had in Europe in the post-war years.

John E. Lewis, former Film Editor BBC, Norwich, United Kingdom

The book is more a tribute to the German and French mania for cataloguing everything in sight in this ”information age&”. In this it clearly seeks to supersede the earlier four volume definitive catalogue produced by Pete Ariel of Berlin and adopts his listing system. The quality of printing, paper and illustration is sumptuous and the book could not fail to intrigue anyone hooked on cine cameras. Perhaps for $ 99.00 (£ 70) one is entitled to expect that much.

Douglas Macintosh in “Amateur-Ciné-Enthusiast”, Barnstaple, Great Britain