what waS your last photography related purchase?

benjiboy

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A new old stock Canon FD Cable Release 30 from a local camera shop ( I prefer to use marque cable releases because some independent ones can damage your shutter)
 

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I recently found a beautiful, like new in box (incl. original strap etc.) M6 0.85. According to the serial number it belongs to the last batch of (non-TTL) 0.85 M6 made. That thing is so new, I wonder if it ever was used at all. It is so beautiful I didn't dare using it at first.



Today I thought, enough of this crap, I didn't buy it to leave it in its box, so I loaded it and took it out for a spin. As luck had it, it soon began to rain and per Murphy's law, "when it rain, it pours" The M6 is now officially baptized
 

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65/5.6 Super Angulon.

I don''t really need it since I have a smaller, lighter 65/8 Fujinon SW that's good enough for what I do, but the price was very, very right and the additional coverage is a plus. If I can't stand the weight, I can always sell the SA, otherwise I can sell the Fuji.

By an odd coincidence that will bear close examination, I already have a center filter for the 65/5.6 SA.
 

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Nice story!
 

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While thrifting, I've found a toll of Elite Chrome 100 (Used) & a PX-30 mercury battery still holding its charge.

1$
 

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1 each bulk rolls of:
Delta 100
Pan F+
Tri-X

2 rolls of 120 Pan F+

I ended up with a total of three bulk loaders on the cheap, so figured I'd just fill them up.

I've only used one very expired roll of Tri-X so that's an experiment entirely (for me, at least). The two Ilford products I've used and been happy with.
 

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jnantz said:
couid be a give away, freebee, book, equipment, film, chemistry
just something related to making photographs, or thinking about making photographs ...
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Another book about Ansel Adams by Nancy Newhall that I could not afford when it was published. Must be a "coffee-table" book because it is so heavy that I have a hard time lifting it. Maybe it is these 88 years that are making it so heavy. Anyhow, I AM enjoying it.........Regards!
 

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I part exchanged my Canon FD 50mm f1.4 lens for a Canon FD 50mm f1.2 lens, I got a very good price for the 1.4 one.
 

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3 pairs of 10" Bicycle straps made for attaching wicker baskets to handle bars. These will be perfect as strap ties for some sets of tripod legs.



These are clip on legs, they fit a rotatable circular brass ring attach to the base of the camera. The straps will replace the old broken ones screwed to one leg of the set and used to secure the tree together for carrying.

Ian
 

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Are these Folmer and Schwing Crown tripod legs? I have similar wood legs but mine clip into a circular wood plate, and the camera sits on the felt-covered plate.I use my Crown No. 4 with my Hasselblad. I suppose one day I should buy a new carbon fiber travel tripod.
 

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No these are Thornton Pickard, Houghton and other British field camera tripod legs, I was surprised just how stable the camera was on these legs (in the photo). Use of the tripod ring means the cameras can be folded with the lens and sometimes a roller blind shutter attached.



I have a tripod ring set for this Houghton Duchess half plate camera but I've not fitted it yet, but the photo shows how much room there is to fold the camera up with the lens and shutter.

Often a wooden tripod top was made to fit legs like the ones in the post above (like yours) or the opposite to fit the tripod leg ring so the camera could be used on a conventional tripod.

Ian
 

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A Thornton Pickard Half Plate Focal Plane Triple Imperial field camera, the lens is almost certainly toast but hey a field camera with two shutters, a front mounted TP roller blind shutter and also a foal plane shutter a steal



Ian
 
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