what waS your last photography related purchase?

[photojournaliste]

I got a good deal on a used mamiya c3 with three lenses!!

 

[Dennis-B]

Decided my Mat 124 was a bit lonely in the bag, so I found this beautiful condition Mat 124G to accompany it. I installed an MR-9 converter, and the meter seems to read well.

 

[W_Taylor76]

I have been wanting to get back into large format so I purchased a Toyo-View 45CX monorail camera and a 210mm lens to go with it. Now all my film holders that have been sitting unused since the college days can have the dust knocked off them and put back into use.

 

[Donald Qualls]

I have been wanting to get back into large format so I purchased a Toyo-View 45CX monorail camera and a 210mm lens to go with it. Now all my film holders that have been sitting unused since the college days can have the dust knocked off them and put back into use.

That's a nice step back in.

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

I got a LowePro Photo Trekker AW (older, green model) that fits my Canham 8x10 and three lenses in the main compartment.

 

[joelbolden]

Minolta AF 75-300 from Roberts Camera.

 

[mike c]

Two propacks of TMY-2 120 from Freestyle, there is suppose to be a a Kodak price hike in Jan, on certain films, and TMY is one of them.

 

[bobsteele]

A beater ETRS body, because I needed the lens release button for an otherwise really nice ETRS. Oh, and a lot that included a metric shedload of stainless steel frames for 4x5 and some other undeterminate large format developing, and reels for roll film developing, including two for wha I think is 16 mm, and one reel for 220.

 

[pbromaghin]

500ml Ilford Rapid Fixer so I can have fresh fixer (not used on film) when I start darkroom printing for the first time - soon.

 

[CMoore]

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

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She's a Beauty

 

[CMoore]

I got a good deal on a used mamiya c3 with three lenses!!

You lucky bum.......

 

[CMoore]

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

What is the advantage of those older projectors that hold just 1--2 slides.?
Thank You

 

[MattKing]

What is the advantage of those older projectors that hold just 1--2 slides.?
Thank You

Simplicity and lower cost (originally).
On the simplicity issue, there is much less to go wrong.

 

[CMoore]

Simplicity and lower cost (originally).
On the simplicity issue, there is much less to go wrong.

Do people buy multiples of those 2-slide, slide holders, or do they just take the time to go through the process.
I am thinking about the classic scenario of everybody sitting down so the family can watch Dad's slide show of their vacation in Italy.
That would take a while with those those older machines.....wouldn't it.?
Maybe it goes faster than i am imagining..

 

[MattKing]

I haven't seen any 2 slide holders. The ones I have seen just allow you to position the second slide while you project the first.
You advance a slide from the waiting position into the projection position, which moves the previous slide into the removal position. You then remove the previous slide, put it back into the storage tray, put the next slide into the waiting position, then advance the waiting slide into the projection position, which automatically advances the projected slide out into the removal position.
Repeat as required.
Ten seconds a slide works easily.

 

[guangong]

What is the advantage of those older projectors that hold just 1--2 slides.?
Thank You

Focusing apparatus will last as long as my eyes and fingers. Do you mean to say that you can watch more than one slide at a time? Amazing! I once watched a Hasselblad show with three projectors that did fad ins and pictures made up of two or three frames.
Also, easier to edit and sort out winners from losers when going through one at a time. Convenient. I do have Prodovit Color for presentation.

 

[Peltigera]

I have just bought a Nikon F2 Photomic. I have a couple of amateur Nikons already and was amazed at the difference in quality, both of design and manufacture, between those and this F2. I have a couple of frames of my test film to go (Agfa Vista 200 ASA) but the camera seems to be just about perfect.

 

[pbromaghin]

From Lowe's, an expandable window screen to place over the bathtub for drying prints, and a 10x12 window glass for contact sheets.

 

[Luis-F-S]

Another V8!

 

[Donald Qualls]

Five rolls of XP2 Super (35mm), 100 pack of 6x6 frame 35mm negative pages, and two 25 packs of 4-pocket 4x5 negative pages.

 

[Anon Ymous]

250g potassium thiocyanate

 

[removed account4]

some paper

 

[bdial]

A B&S salt print kit and associated goodies, a used carbon fiber tripod and a new ball-head to go on it

 

[Black Dog]

More XP2 120 from Speed Graphic, plus some Superia 400 and Cinestill XX-I'm particularly looking forward to trying more XX. The first roll I shot in Edinburgh a few weeks ago and developed in ID11 looks great and I have high hopes of the prints/scans. I could not have hoped for better weather!

 

[Helios 1984]

I found this complete 4th Gen. Paterson System 4 for 8,95$CAD at a vintage store.