what waS your last photography related purchase?

[canongary]

table top tripod for 3.00 bucks .local flea market.

 

[fdonadio]

I ordered a new laptop. My windows 7, 8 year old beast just too slow. I need to buy a separate hard drive to backup stuff. Computers are a major pain. Nothing more elegant than black and white film for storing ikages.

I am shooting film for that reason. I already work on a computer, I don’t want my hobby to have anything with it.

 

[wyofilm]

More paper. Iflord RC IV, pearl, 8x10. (4 x 25 sheet boxes)

 

[wyofilm]

I ordered a new laptop. My windows 7, 8 year old beast just too slow. I need to buy a separate hard drive to backup stuff. Computers are a major pain. Nothing more elegant than black and white film for storing ikages.

I feel your pain. Down one hard drive on RAID system. Need to address this. I've backed up the raid (phew!), but now need to rebuild the raid.

Basically, I bought the raid a number of years ago to preserve digital photographs. My realization some years ago that there is no satisfactory way for me to preserve digital photographs led in part to my return to film photography.

 

[mshchem]

I feel your pain. Down one hard drive on RAID system. Need to address this. I've backed up the raid (phew!), but now need to rebuild the raid.

Basically, I bought the raid a number of years ago to preserve digital photographs. My realization some years ago that there is no satisfactory way for me to preserve digital photographs led in part to my return to film photography.

You are exactly correct. The big movie studios store the most important work as color separation negatives on polyester base black and white film in old salt mines. You can't trust solid state memory, hard drives are problematic.
I think Kodak should offer digital to film services. Make it cheap so people would do it. I would FedEx a memory card to EK and have a thousand TMX, Ektachrome, or Portra frames returned on a 250 foot reel. If people want to pay more put the frames in negafiles. It will never happen, makes too much sense.

 

[wyofilm]

I think Kodak should offer digital to film services.

Sounds like a great idea! I guess the studios do this work now. Maybe the information density of film isn't high enough to just archive all sorts of digital info (not just pics).

I am also shoeboxing (yes, a new verb) digital pics that might have some appeal to my kids/grandkids decades from now by printing them out (5x70) on a Canon printer. The quality is good and I will probably not do anything with except stick them in a box. They might fade some, but ...

 

[mshchem]

Sounds like a great idea! I guess the studios do this work now. Maybe the information density of film isn't high enough to just archive all sorts of digital info (not just pics).

I am also shoeboxing (yes, a new verb) digital pics that might have some appeal to my kids/grandkids decades from now by printing them out (5x70) on a Canon printer. The quality is good and I will probably not do anything with except stick them in a box. They might fade some, but ...

Darn good idea. Kept dry and dark probably last for decades.

 

[AgX]

I think Kodak should offer digital to film services.

They had a project on data-to-film some years ago . Never ever heard again of it...

 

[NedL]

Some ammonium ferric oxalate, for continued experiments with ferric-gelatin processes.
I'm also curious to see if a mixture of afc+afo will allow platinum toning of papier sepia.

A couple small amber bottles for storage after opening a new bottle of HC-110.

 

[EMULSIVE]

Nikon F6!

 

[Mr Flibble]

7" Reflector for my Anniversary Speed Graphic rig.

 

[Black Dog]

This thread has become longer than the dreaded Kodachrome has been deleted thread.

Aahhh, memories- ISTR one or two others that went on for all eternity as well.

 

[Kino]

This thread has become longer than the dreaded Kodachrome has been deleted thread.

As "that Scottish Play" is to thespians, "that unavailable slide film" is to photographers...

 

[Dennis-B]

I've used one before, but never owned one. Nikon 55-300mm f/4.5 Autozoom AI-s. Local dealer had this on eBay, and I picked it up this AM. No dust, etc., just a small chip in the finish near the filter ring. Even has the original lens cap. I know they're a bit heavy, but the results in the past were more than satisfactory.
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Today, I received the HK-5 lens hood. These are relatively scarce stand-alone. From a dealer in England on Etsy.

 

[BSP]

Sold a Nikon SB900 flash I had lying around and with the proceeds bought some more paper! (Ilford, Foma and Adox)

 

[benjiboy]

I bought 2 Canon FD lenses from a local dealer today a 24mm f2.8 and a 80-200 f4 zoom they are both in mint condition.

 

[Sirius Glass]

I bought 2 Canon FD lenses from a local dealer today a 24mm f2.8 and a 80-200 f4 zoom they are both in mint condition.

And here you have been telling us for years that you do no need new cameras* and will not buy new cameras*!


* meaning new to you

 

[Arklatexian]

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!

Liked the AA book by Nancy Newhall so much that I have ordered (and read) a book about Aubrey Bodine and have bought (and received) two books by Andreaus Feninger (maybe misspelled his name), one on photographic lighting and the other on composition. I am reading about things that I think I already know, but have found that I continue to learn new things.. Maybe I should reread my "New Ansel Adams Photography Series, Books 1,2, and 3". I may find out that I don't know as much about "The Zone System" as I think I know.........Regards!

 

[benjiboy]

And here you have been telling us for years that you do no need new cameras* and will not buy new cameras8*!
I didn't say anything about lenses Steve, and I part exchanged 2 lenses a Vivitar Series 1 70 - 210 and a Sigma 24 mm f 2.8 lens for them to upgrade my collection, and I only paid the balance, and I still have the same number of lenses.
I won't buy any more cameras in this lifetime, I'm a man of my word.


* meaning new to you

 

[RalphLambrecht]

couid be a give away, freebee, book, equipment, film, chemistry
just something related to making photographs, or thinking about making photographs ...

Well, I tried to buy some film in the high street but no luck; have to order online.

 

[AgX]

Well, I tried to buy some film in the high street but no luck; have to order online.

Are we thinking of the High Street in the same big city? Anyway, there is hardly a place in Germany where one cannot reach by bike a drugstore that offers type 135 film.

 

[BSP]

Are we thinking of the High Street in the same big city? Anyway, there is hardly a place in Germany where one cannot reach by bike a drugstore that offers type 135 film.

Indeed, I was pleasantly suprised this summer finding APX100-135 36EXP at the DM-drugstores all over the Brandenburg area.
And for under 5 euro per roll too!

 

[Black Dog]

Last Thursday, I went to Boots in the St Enoch shopping centre, Glasgow, and the local film shooters had nearly cleaned the place out of film (luckily there was still some Fujicolour Superia 400)! I've seen HP5+ in 120 format there before, but then you'd hope that a city with a renowned art school and large artistic community would have somewhere to buy film.

 

[Helios 1984]

A 24exp of Kodacolor Gold 100 Plus that I found at a flea market for .99cents. The box says “Victoria 94 - Official Sponsor”

 

[RalphLambrecht]

Are we thinking of the High Street in the same big city? Anyway, there is hardly a place in Germany where one cannot reach by bike a drugstore that offers type 135 film.

depens how good you are on your bike.