Christmas cameras, anyone?

dphill

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No Camera...., but a lens!

My wonderful wife and her sneaky daughter conspired some months ago at Blue Moon Camera and machine. ( http://www.bluemooncamera.com )

I received a 210mm Caltar II-E f6.8 lens with Copal 1 shutter.

Boy! talk about not seeing THAT one coming! Could have knocked me over with a feather!

Dan
 

jsouther

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I was very pleased to get a bottle of Agfa Sistan along with 5 rolls of Neopan 1600 and 20 sheets of Provia 100F in 4x5. I've never seen a 4x5 chrome on the light table in person, so I can't wait to shoot some.

Merry Christmas everybody!
 

BradS

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I sent my old Spotmatic off to Erik at pentaxs.com for a CLA and it came back just in time for christmas.
 

rpsawin

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A Nikon 300mm F4.5 and a TC-301 for my F3HP...I'm thrilled!

Bob
 

E76

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No camera here either, but I did get a lot of photo related stuff: a second back for my Hasselblad, Post Exposure by Ctein, Camera Work: The Complete Photographs, and a color print viewing kit.

So far Post Exposure looks to be excellent, and I'm excited to try out some of the techniques mentioned.
 

IloveTLRs

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A black body Canonet QL17. Her shutter blades are a little sticky, but her paint is worn in just the right places and she takes nice photos. Only $20, too
 

joncapozzi

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Richard Avedon's books, Performance, Photographs 1946-2004, and Portraits of Power. Glen Friedman's book Fuck You Heroes. Good Stuff!!
 

SilverGlow

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I received a brand new Hola 120 camera, with built-in colored flash, woo-hoo! That is the good news. The bad is that I inadvertedly damaged the curtain shutters on my Canon EOS-3 film body....I could just slug myself in the face!
 

rossawilson1

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My amazing girlfriend bought me a Contax 645 and I bought her a Nikon D60 with 18-105VR! A great Christmas over all, boy does that day fly past!!
 

k_jupiter

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What the heck would I need (outside of a 450 Nikor M LF lens)? Daughters are not in the position to get that so I'll make due with slippers and a new electric shaver.

On the other hand, I got my 13 YO a Minolta 16mm Spy camera. We need to get a couple more spools for film and figure a way how to split 135 film for it, but damn was she excited. (she loves shooting my Zorki 1 and Zeiss Nettar 6x6) (she also wants to join the CIA when she grows up)...

Anyone with extra spools for a Minolta 16mm PMail me please. ( An extra or unneeded film splitter ???)

tim in san jose
 

benjiboy

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No photo gear this year, I told my family I have enough, although I got some Amazon gift vouchers I'm going to buy some photographic books with them.
One of my sons bought me a new 4 GB computer with Windows Vista Home Premium, and my other son got me a Samsung 22" flat screen monitor, I'm like a dog with two tails.
 

gandolfi

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no camera equipment this year, but two really good bottles of malt whisky makes up for a lot!
 

Steve Smith

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No cameras this year as I have more than enough. I did get a nice pair of Italian walking boots and I will probably be carrying a camera when I use them.


Steve.
 

dbonamo

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Received early gift of cash, went and purchased a Nikon F100 with MB15 grip..
 

Shiny

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If We Shadows by David Bailey, and 240 sheets of 8x10 Ilford MGIV.
 

brainsalad

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The wife got me (that is to say, gave her blessing to buy) a Pentax 67 rig with normal (105 f/2.4) and wide (55 f/4) lenses. Yay!
 

Christopher Walrath

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No cameras, but a surveyours tripod to modify for use with my 4x5 and 10 rolls of Arista.edu (5-100/5-400) to hold me over until tax/G.A.S. time. And seventy bucks to blow howsoever I daggone well choose. WHOOOO HOOOOO
 

Erik Petersson

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I got a Kiev 4 with a Jupiter 8 attached. The shutter speeds seems to be accurate (although noise). (But I had to buy myself, I am afraid.)
 

Alexander Ghaffari

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No cameras or film, but I got a copy of The Printed Picture, which is quite good. I got some cash, to be used for camera related items...probably enlarger related, and I have a few gifts yet to be given or received.
 

pesphoto

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No camera, but for the holidays I got, from my Amazon wishlist, "NAture" by Harry Callahan and a Walker Evans book.
 

fatboy22

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RBPS II DC power supply from Stroboflash.com. This unit makes my old Graflex Strobofash power pack work instead of the old 250Volt batteries that were $80 each. Tested out all my old Stroboflash heads which I picked up on Ebay for almost nothing. They all still fire! I love these old potatoe masher flashes.


Jamie
 

DWThomas

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I have sufficent cameras (for now) but with spousal blessing I got a Sekonic L-508 meter just a few days ago.
Guess now I have to get really serious about exposures ....

DaveT
 
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