what waS your last photography related purchase?

[jay moussy]

Pentax SP1000 on the auction site.
Low price, couldn' t not get it, as I like operating the one I have so much.

 

[Donald Qualls]

Forty exposures of Instax Wide to feed my nice new LomoGraflok.

 

[fdonadio]

A Hoya center ND filter, that maybe will work perfectly with my Nikkor-SW 65mm, for a song: three dollars.

 

[Mal Paso]

A Hoya center ND filter, that maybe will work perfectly with my Nikkor-SW 65mm, for a song: three dollars.

I have that lens, let us know which filter and how it works. That is a deal!

I'm waiting on a 4x5 lens shade. I returned what turned out to be a 2x3 shade. That built in filter drawer was too good to be true.

 

[mrosenlof]

A time-o-lite enlarging timer

 

[Ian Grant]

A nice boxed Gossen Sixtus light meter which works and is accurate, also a cased Sixtus 2 non functioning.

Ian

 

[RalphLambrecht]

I bought a variety of American landscapes body caps and to protect newly acquired islanders I got 452 mm UV filters. You can find new MC slim line Walimex UV filters for little $$ on Amazon; no need for eBay. They are very good and a true bargain.

 

[fdonadio]

452 mm UV filters.

Wow! I can only try to imagine the size of the lenses these filters will fit.

(Yea, I’m sure it was a typo.)

 

[Michael Firstlight]

Wired shelving to make better use of darkroom counter space - one for the Phototherm and one for the CPP2. Much easier and portable than building complex wall shelving.

 

[Ian Grant]

6 Fidelity 5x4 DDS film holders, half a box of Delta 100 (13 sheets) and 47 sheets Fomapan 200 at a very good price the film is worth 2/3rds of what I've paid and only just expired last month, so a bargain.

Ian.

 

[mshchem]

Wired shelving to make better use of darkroom counter space - one for the Phototherm and one for the CPP2. Much easier and portable than building complex wall shelving.
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Nicely done. Microwave is indispensable for warming chemistry.

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

GoPro

 

[Luis-F-S]

An Elkay Temprite ER-W 32 chiller as a backup to mine’s which was bought new 30 plus years ago.

 

[Roger Thoms]

4 3-48 x 1/2” ss flathead machine screws with nuts and washers to attach a flange to a lens board. The lens in question also a recent purchase is a Gundlach Radar Anast. f6.3 8x10 in an Ilex No. 5 Universal shutter.

Roger

Here's the flange installed with the 3-48 machine screws after boring out the lens board.

 

[Roger Thoms]

And here’s the Gundlach Radar mounted and ready to go. The camera is a Chamonix 8x10 that was also a recent purchase. Lol, the Radar came up on Craigslist on a Friday afternoon so I ended driving 50 miles in rush hour traffic, which took two hours, and then the seller beat me up on the price and I ended up paying fifty dollars more than he was asking.

Roger

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

a bottle of 25ml palladium.

 

[Duceman]

A box of Polaroid 600 film.

 

[Roger Thoms]

4 3-48 x 1/2” ss flathead machine screws with nuts and washers to attach a flange to a lens board. The lens in question also a recent purchase is a Gundlach Radar Anast. f6.3 8x10 in an Ilex No. 5 Universal shutter.

Roger

Here's the flange installed with the 3-48 machine screws after boring out the lens board.
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Just ordered more 3-48 ss flathead screws along with black oxide stainless steel nuts and washers. I thought the black oxide would be a nice touch for the inside of the lens boards. Oh and did I mention that the nuts are self locking, certainly don’t want the lens to fall off. Also ordered a tap and tap drill so I have the option of threading the hole instead of using nuts and washers. Got to love McMaster-Carr they have a heck of a selection. Now I have a good assortment of screw lengths so I don’t have to sit there with my Dremel Tool cutting screws off.

Roger

 

[abruzzi]

I bought a cheap used lens adapter board to adapt a Linhof Technika board to a Toyo M540 (I think). I dropped the board off at the local machine shop, and for $25 they cut it down to Galvin size (5 inches/127mm), so now I can mount and number of lenses I already have on my Galvin 6x9. With that setup, I can focus my Nikkor-W 75/4.5 down to infinity. I have a couple of 65mm lenses that can't reach infinity on the Galvin, so I'll need something else for them (I tried fitting a recessed Linhof board on the adapter, but it doesn't fit--the recess part is larger than the hole on the adapter board.)

 

[Mr Flibble]

Couple of books on Contaxes and other Zeiss Ikon cameras and Leica photography.

 

[jtk]

Andre Kertesz ... "Postcards From Paris"...a somewhat difficult read but surprisingly instructive about his approach to composition.

 

[eli griggs]

A couple of simple affordable, brass step-ups rings, an updated Hasselblad lens shade, with needed filter adapter in near mint condition for about $26US, shipped and, I hope, a 8mm Hasselblad extension tube, IF, my offer is accepted.

 

[mshchem]

I hit what for me is a jackpot. Stopped at a junk store bought a box for $29 US.
2 Hasselblad A12 backs, an A16, a set of 3 genuine Hasselblad extension tubes, a 210mm Schneider Symmar-S 5.6, original 500cm manuals, a "Gold" Hasselblad dark slide. The magazines need light seals. From 1974, the foam is crumbled. Otherwise in superb condition. Seals are an easy fix.
Fun!

 

[Duceman]

I hit what for me is a jackpot. Stopped at a junk store bought a box for $29 US.
2 Hasselblad A12 backs, an A16, a set of 3 genuine Hasselblad extension tubes, a 210mm Schneider Symmar-S 5.6, original 500cm manuals, a "Gold" Hasselblad dark slide. The magazines need light seals. From 1974, the foam is crumbled. Otherwise in superb condition. Seals are an easy fix.
Fun!

Wow. Good find.

 

[Donald Qualls]

bought a box for $29 US.
2 Hasselblad A12 backs, an A16, a set of 3 genuine Hasselblad extension tubes, a 210mm Schneider Symmar-S 5.6, original 500cm manuals, a "Gold" Hasselblad dark slide.

Wow, I need a better class of junk store...