what waS your last photography related purchase?

Donald Qualls · Jan 11, 2021

Let me check my eBay history:

Okay, this is the item I bought, and here's the seller's shop. Now if I could find a similarly affordable backpack that will fit my Graphic View and a couple extra lenses...

Cloudy · Jan 11, 2021

Donald Qualls said:
Let me check my eBay history:

Okay, this is the item I bought, and here's the seller's shop. Now if I could find a similarly affordable backpack that will fit my Graphic View and a couple extra lenses...

Brilliant, thank you! I have a backpack where I can just barelu fit my monorail camera with the lens on (the back and the front on the same plane as the rail, the bellows and the tripod mount in a front pocket), so I'm afraid I can't recommend anything that would also fit a couple of lenses, sorry

Donald Qualls · Jan 11, 2021

I figure if I compress the bellows as far as I can toward one end of the rail, there should be room in front or back of the standards for a couple lens boards and lenses and the rail mount that connects to the tripod. A Graphic View won't fold flat to the rails, though (or not without completely removing the tilt lock screws, at risk of losing them). A field camera would obviously transport better, but the Graphic View is already paid for (and my Speed doesn't have much in the way of movements, nor a reversing back).

Vincent Peri · Jan 12, 2021

I must be crazy! I just bought a Nikkor 18mm f/3.5 AIS lens on ebay. I have about 20 lenses as it is. I don't need any more!

Ah, but the 18 is soooo rectilinear

Donald Qualls · Jan 12, 2021

I'm pretty sure I'm not crazy. I just bought an 82mm extension tube for my RB67 -- that will allow me, with little additional bellows extension, to obtain 1:1 images with my 90mm lens. Yes, that's two stops of bellows compensation. No, I'm not worried about it, I'd never attempt that kind of shot off tripod with a camera that heavy.

Sirius Glass · Jan 12, 2021

Vincent Peri said:
I must be crazy! I just bought a Nikkor 18mm f/3.5 AIS lens on ebay. I have about 20 lenses as it is. I don't need any more!

Ah, but the 18 is soooo rectilinear

I was in that position several years ago. Then I bought a Hasselblad 500mm lens. Then I bought the Hasselblad 30mm Fisheye lens. Then I bought a 80mm Nikonos lens. And somehow in spite of my best intentions I will still buy more lenses in the future. It is too late you cannot escape, you are doomed.

Mick Fagan · Jan 12, 2021

Vincent Peri said:
I must be crazy! I just bought a Nikkor 18mm f/3.5 AIS lens on ebay. I have about 20 lenses as it is. I don't need any more!

Ah, but the 18 is soooo rectilinear

I too have the same lens, it is an awesome lens.Mick.

Huss · Jan 12, 2021

Has anyone here bought a lens? And then realized they already have it, but it was hidden in a pile of other lenses? Just me?...

Huss · Jan 12, 2021

My last photo purchase - an MR9 battery adapter from pratedthai on ebay. Cheaper, and apparently better, than the CrisCam one.
Should allow for correct voltage in my Pen FT.

Sirius Glass · Jan 12, 2021

Huss said:
Has anyone here bought a lens? And then realized they already have it, but it was hidden in a pile of other lenses? Just me?...

You may be unique.

Huss · Jan 13, 2021

Sirius Glass said:
You may be unique.

Thank you.

rick shaw · Jan 13, 2021

Manfrotto 394 Tripod Plate
It worked the very first time, right out of the box.
Didn't even have to read the manual.

eli griggs · Jan 13, 2021

A "Depstech" endoscope USB camera came yesterday, digital true, but images can be printed from inkjet negatives in a wet darkroom, so really a hybrid topic.

5. mp, 8.5mm diameter camera, resolution 2592*1944, CMOS sensor, focal distance 7-40 cm, H. angle 80 degrees and, I think 16'/4.9 meters.

This will be a big help, I believe, in getting a better look down long lens barrels and closeup photographs of tight mechanisms, etc, so I can no only see details, but have a visual record what a reassembled device looks like.

After that, I think I'll pay the newly Widowed Mrs. Mouse a surprise visit and I hope she's in the shower when I just walk in, camera and all!

Cheers.

rick shaw · Jan 13, 2021

Huss said:
Has anyone here bought a lens? And then realized they already have it, but it was hidden in a pile of other lenses? Just me?...

Not long ago, I bought a box of crackers. When I got home my wife said we already had a box in the pantry.

So yeh. Almost.

eli griggs · Jan 14, 2021

Does buying the same camera, with the same kit lens, more than once, count?

I have a couple of camera's like this, peeing to my liking to shoot each model and camera in an ad hoc rotation, with a backup loaded with another or different different ISO, for example a pair of Spotmatics, with HP5+ at 400 and 1600 ISO.

By-the-way, I do no have two original Spotmatics, just the one, but a second is worth waiting for, when I have the cash to spare and the right deal comes along.

If you buy backups, that includes the same focal length, your bag gets slightly heavily, but that does no matter to me because I often am working out of a nearby car, and even in walk about, those small ounces do no offend my back.

IMO.

rick shaw · Jan 14, 2021

OK, apologies if this is breaking thread rules.

In case I forget to update this thread, I am pre-announcing that I plan to buy 1 or more rolls of Portra 400.

eli griggs · Jan 14, 2021

Newer 5 piece oval reflector, about 40 inches wide and I forget how tall arrived tonight and a Godox Speedlight bracket this afternoon.

md_photo · Jan 14, 2021

Sirius Glass said:
You may be unique.

I am still working up motivation to organize lenses and cameras so I don't get into that situation.

TheFlyingCamera · Jan 14, 2021

Three boxes of 14x17 Shanghai GP3 film.

Huss · Jan 15, 2021

md_photo said:
I am still working up motivation to organize lenses and cameras so I don't get into that situation.

I just sold a Leica 70-210 Vario Elmar lens that I forgot I had, and never used. Picked it up because 'it was such a good deal'..
Same reason why I just sold my second R-E.

There's a tonne of stuff I should sell, because pretty much the only reason I bought them was because 'it was such a good deal' or 'good to have a spare'...

logan2z · Jan 15, 2021

Just picked up a Nikon 28mm/2.8 AI lens. Vintage F-mount lenses are so inexpensive these days that it's easy to build a 'collection' of them.

rick shaw · Jan 15, 2021

A pair of LED studio lights.

Vincent Peri · Jan 16, 2021

Huss said: ↑
"Has anyone here bought a lens? And then realized they already have it, but it was hidden in a pile of other lenses? Just me?..."

Sirius Glass said:
"You may be unique."

Nah, I somehow would up with 2 Micro-Nikkor 55mm 3.5 AIS lenses and 2 Nikkor 85mm f/2.0 AIS lenses. I tell ya, I'm getting senile.

JensH · Jan 16, 2021

Hi,

just got a little mechanical timer/selftimer to expose up to 20sec:
A swiss Photoclip-b made in the 1930's by Müller & Vaucher (M&V) in Biel.
https://autoknips.jimdofree.com/selbstauslöser-schweiz/photoclip/photoclip-b/

Best
Jens

John Bragg · Jan 17, 2021

As new in box, Tamron Adaptall 2 80-210 f3.8/4 zoom (model 103A), brand spanking and in showroom condition.

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