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what waS your last photography related purchase?

I had one of those Auto focus enlargers, 40 years ago, I still have the negative carrier and the heat absorbing glass. Thing weighed more than 100 lbs, cast iron!
 
I bought a Canon 55mm 2x yellow filter to use with my Canon FD 35mm f2 Thorium lens, because I'm starting to shoot more monochrome film, because colour film is becoming so expensive.
 
mshchem said:
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I have an older, grungier version of that easel in the dark stained wood finish rather than the painted gray. Watch out for that spring loaded arm! I wasn't careful once and it shot up and were it not for a bit of good luck, it might have knocked out or broken my front teeth. Instead it just gave me a good solid whack under my nose.
 

I will be careful. Thanks for the warning!
 
10 rolls of the controversial CatLabs 320 Pro film in 120 size.
2 bottles of Rodinal from Freestyle.
 
Two boxes of CatLABS X80 II. Looking forward to taking this stuff out for a run. I wish I had some Panatomic-X to compare it with... Sadly, that stuff was gone before I started taking photos. But... I do still have some Type-55! Hmmm....
 
Pentax SMC 300mm f/4 lens
 
Two boxes of 50 sheets FOMABROM FB 111 24x30, 10 rolls of HP5+/120 and a pot of 500g Bellini Sodium Sulphite (to brew some E-72 developer)
"En avant la vapeur!", my darkroom is under full steam pressure!

PS: and in the meantime one of my Hasselblad A12 filmbacks is in repair...
 
6 1/8" f4 Verito.
1 liter brown plastic bottle to mix D-23.
2 cold shoe adapters.
4 rolls expired PXP120
 
Two Double8 ->120 cinelargers, one in 645 and the other in 6x8(?); something called a 'Kodak 16mm 71173'; and a 616/120 film adapter.
 
removed account4 said:
couid be a give away, freebee, book, equipment, film, chemistry
just something related to making photographs, or thinking about making photographs ...
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Nikon slide or neg copier that hopefully helps to ge t quality digital files from negatives
 
Roger Thoms said:
6 1/8” f4 Verito, sounds like fun. What format are you shooting it on?

Roger
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Hi, Roger,
It's classed for 3x4, but it covers 4x5.
(It actually says that in the Wolly catalog.)
I mounted it on my 4x5 Anniversary Speed Graphic, and it illuminates 4x5 nicely...and if the corners are soft, so what? It's a Soft Focus lens!
I haven't shot with it yet, but I'm REALLY looking forward to it.
 
Andrew O'Neill said:
Four small bottles of TEA.
Fomapan 4x5
Tannic Acid
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PC-TEA developers have always interested me, but I never fully understood the heating to over 100°C.
I mix and keep the Phenidone in Isopropyl alcohol, because such a small amount is needed, and wonder about the adding of it in such a hot liquid.

The bottle of TEA I have standing in my darkroom is nearly liquid in the summer because the darkroom heats up a bit above 30°C (it's on top of the buiding)...

Can that heating be omitted?
 

I mixed up my first batch of 510-Pyro at 80C. When I mix up Pyrocat-HD, I heat up to 52C. The next batch of 510 I make, I'm going to try a lower temperature. I like that video of Jay de Fehr mixing it up... where he dumps everything in, then heats it all up on a hot plate. To what temperature he heats, he doesn't say... but I'll bet it all goes into solution before 80C!
 
Got a Kodak Monitor six-20 with 101mm f4.5 Anastigmat Special lens/Kodak No.1 Supermatic shutter
 
I picked up a book today: Applied Depth of Field by Alfred A. Blaker. Focal press. Ca. 1985
 
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