what waS your last photography related purchase?

[Kino]

2 x 5 liter packs of XTOL and 2 rolls of Arista 100 from Freestyle.

 

[CMoore]

12-led plant grow bulb for the temporary bathroom darkroom. It uses only 12 watts and emits only 660-670nm light so it is invisible to all Harman B&W papers. Tried it out in the bathroom with the lights off and HOLY CRAP IT'S BRIGHT. I'll be able to see a lot better than I was expecting.

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That is pretty interesting.

 

[Donald Qualls]

12-led plant grow bulb for the temporary bathroom darkroom. It uses only 12 watts and emits only 660-670nm light so it is invisible to all Harman B&W papers. Tried it out in the bathroom with the lights off and HOLY CRAP IT'S BRIGHT. I'll be able to see a lot better than I was expecting.

Do you happen to have the manufacturer and part number for that bulb? At that wavelength, with suitable diffusion/attenuation, that might be usable for RA-4 safelight. It'd be better if it ran 680-690, but with the part number, I might be able to ask the manufacturer if they offer one in that color...

 

[pbromaghin]

Donald,
They call it the "ABI PAR38 LED Grow Light". The closest I see to a part number is "PAR38-THRPY-A".

This is the listing from Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/ABI-Light-Th...jbGlja1JlZGlyZWN0JmRvTm90TG9nQ2xpY2s9dHJ1ZQ==

Here is the claimed light distribution:

Here's their contact info from their website:
ABI® LED Lighting is a division of JacobsParts Inc.
8227 Northwest Blvd Ste 120
Indianapolis, IN 46278

Email: info@abilights.com
Phone: 800-738-7120

By the way, I didn't mention it, but I have several of those cheap clamp-on lights from Home Depot that you recommended in the Harman Direct Positive Paper thread. This bulb is way too heavy for the clamp and it will not stay anywhere.

 

[Donald Qualls]

Hmm. Looks like a filter with a fairly sharp cutoff at 685 nm or so (long pass) would do both the color limitation and attenuation. Something like the "tobacco" filter for using a Thomas with color. I'd rather have a single one of those modules with emission peak around 690. Dim that enough and it wouldn't need filtration.

 

[Donald Qualls]

Ten rolls of Fuji Superia X-tra 400, 35mm, 36 exposures. Next payday I'll do the same in 120...

 

[Donald Qualls]

And then I bought some carbon fiber tube and rods, tiny screws, black ABS sheet, and super glue, for putting the B shutter setting and second aperture into my Holga (and replacing the screw that was in so tight the head stripped out getting it out) -- whole set of materials, far more than I need for one Holga, cost less than paying holgamods.com to do the conversion. I'll still have to order a cable release adapter from them, though, but I'd have to pay for that separately anyway.

And now, from the eBay ads below, I bought an Ensign Commando, 6x6/6x4.5 coupled RF, film plane focusing folding camera. Be here in a few weeks from Lithuania.

Do I have G.A.S.? Maybe...

 

[GLS]

Nikkor-M 300mm f9

 

[Kino]

Weston Ranger 9, Sekonic L-ii2 and GE DW-68 light meters, all working for $15 + S&H.

 

[Donald Qualls]

Recently, I bought a Welta Weltini on eBay -- a tiny, folding 35mm RF, with f/2.9 50mm Cassar. Got it and discovered the shutter jams on firing and the RF doesn't seem to work (I'm pretty sure I can fix it when I have time). Today I bought another Weltini -- this time, listed as "serviced" with shutter and RF working, and with a 50mm f/2.0 Xenon lens -- the same lens that was top of the line on the Retina. Getting to be coat weather, looks like I'll have a good coat pocket camera.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Nikon 28mm f/3.5 PC-Nikkor Today I took some photographs with it.

 

[PFGS]

Kiev 60 w/ CZJ Biometar 80mm f2.8 & Flectogon 50mm f4 - fingers crossed!

 

[Aniko]

16x20 darkroom trays

 

[R.Gould]

Weston eurpmaster exposure meter, to replace the one I dropped from a great height onto concrete

 

[Dennis-B]

Yashica Mat 124. Opted for the slightly older version over the 124G.

 

[pbromaghin]

My first darkroom paper! 25 sheets of Ilford MGRC glossy 5x7.

Now I have to choose the first 35mm negative to print since 1975 when my high school photography club spent a couple nights in the Bemidji State University darkroom.

 

[R.Gould]

Another Minolta Dynax 600si classic, my favourite Dynax camera to use, and a Sigma 24 to 70 lens

 

[Donald Qualls]

I ordered a Discover Channel stereo camera (dual side by side half frames on 35mm, with mirrors separating the views for correct depth). Fixed-everything, may include a pop-up flash (seller didn't have a picture of that, but there's a hump and others I've seen of that commonly relabeled model have this). Not a great camera, but it'll produce stereo pairs with minimum effort.

 

[guangong]

My Pradix projector fell to floor, broke, Awaiting delivery of Prado 250.

 

[removed account4]

8oz amber jars

 

[Sirius Glass]

8oz amber jars

Gee I never had special jars to keep ambers. I just let the ambers run free. Even the ones that weigh 8 ounces.

 

[131802]

Omega B-22 in immaculate condition.

 

[GLS]

Bag bellows for my Linhof Technikardan S45

 

[Anon Ymous]

Another Canon EOS 30, this time it came with a 28-80 II lens.

 

[Dan Fromm]

Well, I've gone over to the other side. Used Nikon D810, Wein SafeSync so I can use it with my old macro flash rigs, and a cable release.