what waS your last photography related purchase?

[Donald Qualls]

5 bucks will not pay for coffee at $tarBuck$ any longer, either.

I beg to differ -- depends on what kind of coffee. My usual tall Pike with cream (no sweetener because they stopped offering the Sweet 'N Low I prefer, so now I carry saccharin tablets to add myself) is currently $2.84 including sales tax. A little more than some other places, but reliably good coffee and the drive-up is usually quick.

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

I miss buying coffee in a can in Japan! Boss's Black!

 

[Donald Qualls]

Hot in the can, alongside cold in bottles in the same machine?! The Japanese can vend anything...

 

[BMbikerider]

At not a lot of expense, a 50mm and a 150mm lenses for my Bronica SQa. Bought privatelt for £225 for both Incl the cost of sending them to me I am quite well pleased. They are on the way to me but I won't get them until Monday next week.

 

[Drew B.]

I just picked up a Nikon Pronea S, very cheaply as that type of film is no longer being produced (I think) For 7 bucks I couldn't pass it up as it is small, easy to handle, unique in some ways, has removable lens, seems to work well but does anyone know of APS film for sale.

 

[Donald Qualls]

does anyone know of APS film for sale.

You can sometimes find it on eBay, ten years expired or more, but good luck finding a lab to process it the canonical way (negatives rolled back into the cassette), or a developing reel that takes 21 mm film (might be a Soviet one, I think one of their spy cameras used that size).

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

I just picked up a Nikon Pronea S, very cheaply as that type of film is no longer being produced (I think) For 7 bucks I couldn't pass it up as it is small, easy to handle, unique in some ways, has removable lens, seems to work well but does anyone know of APS film for sale.

I remember when they came out, I was working at a camera store, and we joked that it was a very unfortunate name for an otherwise competent camera - it sounded like an eye disease. "I got a Nikon Pronea" "I'm so sorry - do you need a cream for that? Have you seen your opthalmologist?"

 

[MattKing]

An $18 CDN adapter that should permit me to use my Olympus Macro 50mm lens + bellows on the Samsung NX 500 camera I was sort of given. I'm going to see if I can make this work for slide digitization purposes.
Ordered from China, but shipped from the UK - what a complex world we live in.

 

[Donald Qualls]

Ordered from China, but shipped from the UK - what a complex world we live in.

I've gotten a number of items with that setup -- ordered from China, shipped from Somewhere Else -- in the past year or two. I think it's done to improve shipping time -- seller ships a carton or more (container?) of their product to a service in the target country. This costs a little extra (which gets priced in) compared to the nearly-free shipping with Chinese Speedpak, but saves weeks on delivery time.

 

[Donald Qualls]

Well, given the price differential (vs. anything else that will work correctly with my Contax mount lenses), I took a chance and pulled the trigger on my third Kiev Contax clone body -- this one a 4AM (no meter, 1957 date code). Seller in Kyiv says "tested" and all shutter speeds good, and had some prints in one of the listing photos; if nothing else, no meter means it'll be easier to get under the top plate to adjust the advance clutch if I feel I have to. Got some kind of discount or coupon applied (eBay supporting Ukraine?), so net $92+ shipped, including a Jupiter-8M 53 mm f/2

 

[jay moussy]

Local estate sale outfit switched to an online auction format, items unseen, just photos. Spouse saw a photo lot, told me, and I decided on a low bid, as there was a Canonet 28, an Infinity Stylus 140, and a naked T50. Listing raised the possibility of fungus. I quickly got overbid, but spouse told me I was "too cheap" and overbid the person who was set on getting the goods!

So, now we(!) have:
Canonet 28, now works on hearing aid battery
Canon T50 (two settings, "Program" or OFF!)
FD 50mm 1.8 - clean
FD 35-105 3.5 - clean, but broken section of outer filter ring mount
Olympus Infinity Stylus Zoom 140 Deluxe (=champagne and gold accents)
One of these 1980s monster-zoom AF camera, Olympus
Three or four polarizing filters

Price was around the equivalent of four HP5 rolls.
We will write that off as Father's Day gift (from the dog).

I like the Canonet, and the FDs are welcome.
If I knew how to do market the Stylus, it could fund more medium format stuff..

 

[BMbikerider]

I have more or less complete my Bronica SQa set up with a 50mm and a 150ps lenses. That will do for now. But a 40 and a 250mm plus a spare film back may be possible later when I have learned to cope with the weight of what I have now. I have a very nice backpack with a fitted case to take them all in one hit. I have the way to cope, but I just need some money.

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

4x5 box of Adox CMS II, Adotech IV, Potassium Carbonate (can't make proper Pyrocat-HD without it!!!)

 

[RalphLambrecht]

I spent $100 on a Saturday workshop on stil life photography, given by a pro advertising photographer, and it was well worth it andits something I can do at any weather at home.

 

[henryyjjames]

I just bought a darkroom sink off a retired Kodak photographer. I had to drive 6 hours but he also gave me his other darkroom equipment (and the price was right) so it was very worth it!

 

[pbromaghin]

Just received the X-700 back from getting new bumpers, seals and CLA. The Aperture Priority doesn't work, but Program and Manual do. It's loaded up with Vision2 250D and I'm going to play with the P mode.

 

[kinglang]

a digital back

 

[Disconnekt]

A Tamron 90mm Macro (Model 272E) in Pentax Kmount from MPB

 

[murdockhendrix]

Ordered in the last 10 days:

Phenidone 50g
Potassium Bromide 100g
Ascorbic Acid 100g
Sodium Metabororate 100g
Pyrogallol 100g
TEA 1 pint
Propylene Glycol 1l
91% Isopropyl Alcohol 1 pint

TD-16 Improved D-76
5-Pack Kodak Gold 200 Color Negative Film 120 Roll Film

 

[Ian Grant]

Some good finds today. A 10x8 Agfa Ansco Universal View camera with a number of 10x8 .Fidelity DDS film holders, a Thornton Pickard Amber half plate camera just needs a new GG screen otherwise excellent, a cheap as chips Leningrad 4 light meter, in its box with instructions - maybe unused. 19 Fidelity 5x4 DDS film holders.

The stars:

A boxed Rada 6x9 roll film holder, took a chance here as the lip was unusually thin, and great it fits my 6.5x9 Patent Etui. Now I have a nice outfit, camera, 6 KW 6.5x9 plate holders which have a really neat unexposed/exposed indicator, a useless film pack holder, now the roll film holder,

But best of all were two grungy, dirty looking large brass lenses. The first a T.T.&H. Cooke 12"x10" format 16" f8 Rapid Rectilinear lens, optically very nice. I bargained, the seller wanted £100 I offered £60, we met at £80. He then said you can have the other one for £30 (£1 = $1.22 at the moment). It was far dirtier I took a chance.

On getting home and cleaning the glass, the optics are fine, no scratches, fungus, very clean, but hey the dirtiest lens is a J.H.Dallmeyer Quick Acting Portrait Petzval, a 9" f4, so a jewel of a find, introduced in 1860, a close Serial No to the one illustrated in the Vade Mecum.

Ian

 

[Donald Qualls]

Grabbed an Auto-Up close-up attachment that should fit my Mamiya Six folder from an ad here on Photrio.

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

I haven't bought anything photographically speaking in over two weeks. I must be slipping...

 

[Donald Qualls]

I haven't bought anything photographically speaking in over two weeks. I must be slipping...

Uh oh. G.A.S. is always worse after a period of remission...

 

[Sirius Glass]

Some lens bags, but one is badly backordered and has not shown up long after being ordered.

 

[Roger Thoms]

Took a chance on a ”as is” Nikon 8008s for $7.21 from KEH because I needed a battery holder for a an otherwise very clean 8008s which had the batteries leak. Hit paydirt, the battery holder was there and clean, and it also had the rubber piece for the view finder. I also bought a Nikon DW-4 6x magnifying finder for my F3.

Oh and I received my George Tice print today which is an reward from a recent Kickstarter campaign. All and all a very good day in the photographic purchase department.

Roger