what waS your last photography related purchase?

eli griggs

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Downsized my order for 100 Instax mini monochrome for 50 fresher sheets.
 

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Andrew O'Neill said:
You will love this paper.
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Hahnemühle Platinum Rag just arrived in the mail, and so far I'm in 100% agreement.

I did some test prints (hard core traditionalists might want to avert their eyes now) on our P600 with an Epson Signature Worthy Sample Pack and the Hot Press Natural was my favourite.

There is a part of the test photo where a distant mountain ridge is barely perceptible through misty rain which had trouble with more heavily textured papers. On the hot press paper it was visible, barely, but was there for sure. On the textured papers it was there when you first looked at it, then your brain would prioritize the papers texture and the ridge would disappear. A weird effect, but made me wonder what other subtle nuances of a print would be overwhelmed by textured papers.

The Platinum Rag is a cleaner white as well, which I also like.

First salt prints next week...maybe?
 
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A Nikon F5 at the thrift store for $25! Too bad it doesn’t power on…

Fortunately the F100 next to it (also $25) seems to be fine.

So if anyone needs a cheap F5 parts camera I can make you a good deal!
 

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A Kodak Wide Field Ektar 100mm lens for my 4x5 kit. My current lightweight wide is the ubiquitous Angulon 90mm, but I found out that the WF Ektar are a double gauss design, and one of my favorite lenses is a double gauss (Retina-Xenon) so I thought it would be interesting to see if they make similar images.
 

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I bought one last year, replacing a long-gone Wide Field. I had forgotten what a great lens it is. Congratulations, and enjoy!
 

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I went a bit crazy this week. I bought a Leica Elmarit 90mm/2.8 that I've had my eye on for a while and just picked up a Pentax KX and a 50mm/1.7 SMC-M lens. Hopefully that'll cure the GAS for a while
 

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a round trip ticket to Anchorage AK, and two weeks of vacation time in the spring. I'm really at the point that I don't have to spend money on equipment, now I just want to spend money on taking photos.
 

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Pentax Papilio II 6.5x21 binoculars mostly for my eyeballs, but they may make for an interesting adjunct lens.
 

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A rats nest of plumbing stuff to get water from laundry room to darkroom and cobble together a frugal mishmash of filters, dial thermometers, and water timers. Got about 90% locally, will have to search that Interweb thingy for the rest of it.
 

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Ascorbic Acid

Brett Weston's Alaska Photo Portfolio from Lodima Press
 

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I went into town with my Wife today & she foolishly left me alone near a camera shop.
I happened to notice a box of budget items & picked up a Tamron SP 2x teleconverter for adaptall lenses, a Makinon 500mm f/8 mirror lens & a Kodak no2 folding autographic Brownie. All in reasonable but not perfect condition for £5 each! I'm not sure if I'll end up using the Kodak (I definitely will both the others) but it's well worth the cost just for a exhibition piece and being dated from between Nov 1920 and Apr 1924, actually predates any of my other cameras by at least 10 years.

About an hour later in a charity book/coffee shop I saw 'Dusk to Dawn - A guide to landscape photography at Night' A rather nice book by Glenn Randall published in 2018 that was somehow less than the coffee!

I suspect I must have used up my luck for the rest of the year, so had better avoid taking risks!
 
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At least, in two years max, you’ll have an antique item. Yes, one of the ways to classify something as an “antique” is when the thing is at least 100 years old.
 
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In my search for an upgrade for a camera to leave in my truck I found a nice Nikon F80 with a Nikkor AF 28-80mm f3.3-5.6mm on Craigslist. Well the Nikkor turned out to be Plastic Fantastic Crap. The bayonet mount is plastic (what the heck was Nikon thinking) and when I accidentally dropped the camera from two feet and a half onto carpeting the lens snapped off. So with some searching on the internet I determined the a Nikkor AF 28-105mm f3.5-4.5D would be a good replacement and found one on eBay. Then I ordered a lens hood for it. So my goal of upgrading “truck camera” getting a little expensive. I also bought another F80 of eBay that came with a battery grip and a data back that is supposed to record the exposure data between the frames. Now I need a lens for it . Really should have just stuck with the Nikon F401x even though you can’t set the iso, or set exposure compensation, or bracket your shots and it doesn’t display shutter speed when you are in aperture priority. The plus side is that it came with a box of free darkroom stuff and other than batteries and some time to clean it up it cost me nothing. I don’t even feel the need for a case for it, I just toss it behind my seat and it’s ready to go.

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It's about a year ago but the last thing I bought was a Canon FD 24mm f2 lens and I sold my FD 24 f2.8 one, because the f2 version is a much better lens.
I doubt if I will ever buy any more lenses , I own fifteen already.
 
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benjiboy said:
I doubt if I will ever buy any more lenses , I own fifteen already.
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Hang around here a while longer and you'll get over that false sense of fulfillment.
 

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benjiboy said:
It's about a year ago but the last thing I bought was a Canon FD 24mm f2 lens and I sold my FD 24 f2.8 one, because the f2 version is a much better lens.
I doubt if I will ever buy any more lenses , I own fifteen already.
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A mere starter then, I have lenses in more than 15 different mounts, I think a 24mm/2 might make a useful addition. Most of my wide angles are around a stop slower...
 

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Hmm -- bought a 7Artisans 60mm f/2.8 II macro lens with intent to create a setup using my EOS M5 to digitize negatives instead of the scanner which seems to be aging badly. Busy with other things, I haven't done much, but did try it enough to see it produces decent images. The relatively inexpensive lens is totally manual which is desirable for my intended use anyway.
 
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