what waS your last photography related purchase?

[Anon Ymous]

Hoya R72. Time to try Rollei Retro 80S as an IR film.

And now that it arrived, we have torrential rain and will continue so for days...

 

[Black Dog]

Some Fomaspeed Variant 5x7 inch (a nice paper; I've used it quite a bit), 25 sheets of Rollei RPX 400 4x5 inch which will be used in my Zero Image pinhole camera and 12 rolls of just outdated Fujicolour C200 24 exp. This last item cost me £20-what a blag! This all came from Mr Cad in London, just round the corner from Victoria Station. I also bought a couple of rolls of Catlabs ISO 80 B&W film, a roll of APX 400 from the bookshop at the Photographers Gallery, again in London-this is a great resource in the West end and worth visiting if you're near Piccadilly/Regent Street.

 

[removed account4]

amber eye dropper bottles and probably stuff i don't remember ordering that will arrive and i'll open it and say " oh yeah im so glad i ordered this!"

 

[Black Dog]

amber eye dropper bottles and probably stuff i don't remember ordering that will arrive and i'll open it and say " oh yeah im so glad i ordered this!"

I know the feeling!

 

[M.A.Longmore]

A friend of mine lives in an apartment building. He asks the janitor to receive packages for him and to not deliver the to the apartment until he gets home.

He owns one of every Leica from the II up to the M6.

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I'm beginning to see your point.

 

[MNM]

Agfa Ambi Silette. Too poor for Leicas

 

[darkosaric]

Kodak mini shot instant camera and cartridges. What a waste of money, don't buy this.

 

[What About Bob]

Set of 12 filters for the Hasselblad in 67mm size and a filter and lens hood for the Rolleicord. The set of 12 filters came with two filter wallets.

 

[NedL]

After going to 2 auto parts stores and 2 hardware stores, I found a squeegee with soft rubber and very straight ( not wavy ) edge to it. There were several brands in the window-washing section of each store, but only this one looked like it might work. Hoping it will help solve problems I've been having w/ Mortensen's paper negative process ( Which I think I remember Maris calling the "Emmerman" process, or something like that ) When I first tried the process a few years ago, I tried using a very soft sponge and it left bad streaks on the interpositive. Then, quite a few times I've had pretty good luck just draining the paper carefully, but last weekend I just couldn't get good results that way. Will see if the squeegee helps.

 

[Pentode]

Two 29.5mm series filter holders and a 29.5mm yellow filter - a gift for a friend with a Retina.

A CLA for my M3.

 

[alanrockwood]

Most recent acquisition: Olympus Pen FT with 40mm f/1.4 lens. It arrived just a few days ago, and so far I have only had a chance to dry fire it.
Also, to go along with it I bought a 50-90mm f/3.5 zoom lens that just arrived today, a 100mm f/3.5 lens, and a Vivitar 2X converter.

I figure the 2X converter, along with the 40mm f/1.4 lens will make a nice soft focus f/2.8 portrait lens. Actually, between the zoom lens, the 100mm lens, and the 40mm + 2X converter I have the portrait lens slot more than covered.

I would like to buy a wide angle lens for it as well, but they are quite expensive.

 

[Ian Grant]

40 rolls of Fomapan 200 35mm & 120.

Ian

 

[baachitraka]

40 rolls of Fomapan 200 35mm & 120.

Ian

Nice!!!

 

[Ian Grant]

Nice!!!

Part of the logic is it will soon be my choice of 10x8 and 7x5 film because at £1.94 a sheet of 10x8 its very significantly cheaper than Ilford at £6.00 a sheet. I used a lot of 120 Fomapan 100 & 200 between 2008 and maybe six years ago. Best way to stay familiar with it is smaller formats where technique in terms of exposure, development etc are more critical.

Ian

 

[removed account4]

Citric acid and cheapO paper

 

[baachitraka]

Part of the logic is it will soon be my choice of 10x8 and 7x5 film because at £1.94 a sheet of 10x8 its very significantly cheaper than Ilford at £6.00 a sheet. I used a lot of 120 Fomapan 100 & 200 between 2008 and maybe six years ago. Best way to stay familiar with it is smaller formats where technique in terms of exposure, development etc are more critical.

Ian

Its actually very nice film. Still have 10 x Foma 200 and 10 x HP5+ in 120 in the freezer.

Still no darkroom after moving to new house. and wish I can test FP-200 with Fomadon Excel/Xtol soon...

 

[Ian Grant]

Its actually very nice film. Still have 10 x Foma 200 and 10 x HP5+ in 120 in the freezer.

Still no darkroom after moving to new house. and wish I can test FP-200 with Fomadon Excel/Xtol soon...

I've used Fomapan 200 with replenished Xtol and the results were excellent, that was on return visits to the UK while living in Turkey. In Turkey and now back living in the UK I only use Pyrocat HD with superb results. I've not counted how many rolls of 120 Fomapan 100 & 200 I've used it's 100+, maybe 200 rolls, and where possible I've used Fomapan 200 but while in Turkey it depended what was on the dealers shelf. I find the 200 as good as teh 100 in terms of grain, sharpness and tonality (tonal range) so the 100 has no benefits.

Ian

 

[baachitraka]

Picked up first plate camera, "Goerz" with Dopp-Anastigmat.Dagor 1:6.8 f=168mm lens.

Condition seems rather not so good but just for Dagor and it came in for €24, I can't deny

 

[Ian Grant]

Good price, nice camera, Dagor's have surprisingly good contrast close to modern coated lenses.

Ian

 

[baachitraka]

Good price, nice camera, Dagor's have surprisingly good contrast close to modern coated lenses.

Ian

Some months ago this was happening,

https://www.photrio.com/forum/threads/got-myself-a-new-camera-rodenstock.140175/

Thanks to @JPD for excellent information about the contrast in comparison to Heliar.

 

[baachitraka]

Good price, nice camera, Dagor's have surprisingly good contrast close to modern coated lenses.

Ian

There could be other hidden gems like Rüo - Optik Acomar f4.5 18cm but very minimal information about this lens.

 

[Ian Grant]

Some months ago this was happening,

https://www.photrio.com/forum/threads/got-myself-a-new-camera-rodenstock.140175/

Thanks to @JPD for excellent information about the contrast in comparison to Heliar.

I remember as I also have the Rodenstock camera but with a Trinar,

There could be other hidden gems like Rüo - Optik Acomar f4.5 18cm but very minimal information about this lens.

Found on Orion Werks cameras, although mine has a Rodenstock Eurynar.

Ian

 

[abruzzi]

10 120 rolls of Tri-X
10 120 rolls of TMax100
10 120 rolls for Bergger Pancro400

(I've been neglecting medium format since the beginning of the summer.)

 

[GregY]

A black Pentax MX with a 40mm & 28mm

 

[benjiboy]

I bought a Canon FD 80-200 f4 zoom lens, I part exchanged a Vivitar Series 1 70-210 f3.5 zoom because although the definition of the Vivitar was fine it had an all-metal body which was heavy and it was one- touch which I don't like because they tend to lose focus as you zoom and your wrist turns. The Canon 80-200 has a polymer body is two- touch, has separate focus and zoom controls, good definition, and a built-in sliding hood, is much lighter than the Vivitar, the exchange cost me very little and I'm a very happy bunny.