What these are: Two B&H catalogs released in 2007. Who is this for? Photographers who lived through the transitional era from film to digital and witnessed it firsthand and want to reminisce. And, younger people who missed that era but are curious and fascinated by it.

The books are about 8" x 11" x 1.5" thick. One has 718 pages and the other 685 for a total of 1403. The total weight of both books is 7 pounds 3 ounces.

What products are shown? Just about every product imaginable related to both film and digital photography from tripods to memory cards that was available in 2006-2007.

It shows the first DSLR camera from Sony, the Alpha A100 released in 2006. There are 5 pages describing the features of the A100 which was a 10Mp 'prosumer' camera. They were several years behind Canon & Nikon but they are now major players. It has 147 pages on digital Point & Shoot cameras which were extremely popular before phones had good cameras. There is Abobe Photoshop CS3 you would have most likely used on your Windows XP.

As a photographer at the time, with thousands of dollars invested over several decades in both Minolta and Nikon film systems, it was both an exciting and nerve-racking time. I read the photography blogs nightly and there were those who said they would never go digital and the quality of digital would never surpass film. In the early 2000’s I was going on photography hikes with both film and digital cameras. Film developing locations were slowly closing. My camera store converted 75% of their space into a scrapbooking center, which was a trend at the time. Many like myself had one foot in the past and one in the future.

A few other items that were very popular at the time and are shown; the Nikon D200, Canon EOS 30D, the Nikon Coolscan for scanning our decades of film, Epson printers and scanners, SanDisk 8GB memory card for $129 (the largest available then).

Condition; I have had these safety stored for 17 yrs and they were only handled for this listing. There are two small tears on the cover of the 35mm SLR book from the mailman.

You will not find a more complete source of photography related items of that era in one place. Absolutely great for reference or as coffee table books.

Also, the DSLR cameras of that era didn’t take movies, just photographs. We forget the long road and slow-paced crawl of megapixels from 3.2 to 4, etc.

Note; Prices are not shown for many of the cameras but it says to “call for the most recent price”. This was common because newly released cameras would have a high MSRP but be discounted some months later.

Thank you!