Links Photo Equipment

Overview

Links on photo equipment are available on the following topics:

Equipment reviews via survey can be found at Photozone
Lots of lens test results via MTF can be found at Photodo
Epinions is a very good source for reviews about any kind of products written by users.
A very good source for information about digital cameras is PhotographyREVIEW

There are several excellent sites with up to date information and review of digital cameras and digital photography in general like

NikonLinks probably offers the best oververview of information related to Nikon equipment in the internet.
The website of Thom Hogan has a very extensive list of tests of Nikon equipment.
A very extensive list of reviews of lenses for Nikon Cameras can be found at the Nikon Lenses Link Collection
Ken Rockwells Website also has a very extensive list of Nikon related reviews.
NikonPoint is an interesting German Nikon discussion forum
NikonInfo is another German Nikon related discussion forum.
The Nikon SLR Lens Talk Forum on dpreview.com is a very active forum.
NIKON-foto.de is a very informative German Nikon and photography related site.

Information about Pentax Lenses can also be found at Bojidar Dimitrov's Site.
Very usefull is the Pentax Discussion Group, but this site is quite disorganized!
The PentaxForums are also very informative.

There are lots of search engines for the cheapest price of a certain product available on the web:

PreisSuchmaschine.de for search in Germany is one example.
Similar sites are Preistrend, Evendi, Dooyoo or GuensTiger.de
In addition to that Ciao.de offers a forum where users can write their opinion about the products and about the shops offering them.
Idealo is similar but offers less information about photo equipment
www.go-shopping.de is also similar

There are thousands of online shops selling photo equipment. The following sell also "not mainstream" stuff:

The German Brenner Fotoversand Weiden has lots of different items, among them also very "exotic" but still usefull things.
Really Right Stuff is also known for very special but usefull things.

A collection of virtually every test report that has appeared in German magazines can be found at Testberichte
A very interesting site is Keinaths Selbstbau & Modifikations-Links. Here you can find a huge collection of links to "recipies" on how you can improve photo equipment or even buil your own pieces of equipment.
Very usefull information about film scanners can be found at filmscanner.info