what waS your last photography related purchase?

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Nothing too exciting: One roll of Kodak Plus-X 36-exp. dated 2011. The seller said the film had been in a basement which did not get hot. 2011 may be about when Kodak discontinued Plus-X.

Now if I could find some Gold 100 that had been stored cold. I tried the new Gold 200, but found it rather grainy and uninspiring.
 

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I usually use my ETRSi with a WLF, which is usually fine becasue 95% of my shots are landscape, and the other 5% I can still shoot in portrait but it is slow. But I'll be traveling with other in a few months, so I wanted to figure out a way to shoot this without gong to overboard on weight and bulk. I already had a prism finder, but shooting the camera with a prism finder and no grip, is really awkward. So I picked up an ETR pistol grip (I already had a right hand grip but it maes the camera very bulky) so:



tried that out and its a bit heavy to carry in your hand, but shooting with an AE prism was actually quite nice, quick and easy. Unfortunately it made the normal neck strap awkward. I was looking through possibilities, and saw this Blackrapid strap:



It attaches to the 1/4-20 tripod mount, which the grip has on its base. The strap just arrived today, and with a test fitting it actually seems to work perfectly with the camera and grip essentially hanging upside down. I'll give it a full test run this weekend. This setup needs the left hand version which rests on the right shoulder and left hip, since the grip is designed for the left hand. The challenge in the field is also carrying a shoulder bag with other lenses, film, etc. We'll see.
 

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While I bought this double x-ray viewer to use as a light table in my darkroom a few months ago, and posted that here, I finally got around to installing it so my latest purchase was a set of masonry drill bits required to mount it in the concrete wall of my basement darkroom. It fits nicely under the drying racks I made from my old window screens. Now I just have to come up with a more elegant way to support the light table in the up position.



 

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VinceInMT said:
Now I just have to come up with a more elegant way to support the light table in the up position.
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Curtain rod holders attached to each bench and a piece of doweling/curtain rod/plastic pipe cut to length.
 

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VinceInMT said:
Now I just have to come up with a more elegant way to support the light table in the up position.
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Triangle bracket (made from plywood) hinged from the centre bottom of your light table. When you pull it up, the triangle drops and supports the table. You'd have to swing it back up to put the light table back.
 

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Don Heisz said:
Triangle bracket (made from plywood) hinged from the centre bottom of your light table. When you pull it up, the triangle drops and supports the table. You'd have to swing it back up to put the light table back.
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Sounds doable and minimal parts.
 

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A black Vivitar 420/SL with several lens and a bunch of other goodies.

Everything is like new. The camera even has the clear plastic protector on the bottom.
 

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Not exactly a photographic purchase, but I just received my Petri Color 35 camera back today. Two years ago the shutter jammed while I was dry firing the camera. I sent it off for an estimate to repair it plus to see if it was possible to covert the battery from a 1.3v mercury to a more modern 1.5v battery.

I forgot about it for 1.5 years. The shop called last week and asked if I got an email from them about the camera. Must have got eaten by the spam filter. The camera was in the mail the next day.

Shutter repaired, battery conversion done, and viewfinder frame centered. I loaded it with film and will shoot a test roll through it this weekend.

Petri Color 35 crop by Richard Hendrix, on Flickr
 

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This is my first post on forum and my latest purchase was some raw chemicals. I m planning to make developer by myself

500g D-mannitol
500g Salicylic acid
500g Ascorbic acid
1kg Borax
1kg Sodium sulfite
1kg Magnesium sulfate
1kg Trisodium phosphate

Before that I ordered 10g Dimezone-S and bottle of Fomafix and some 35mm film.
I'm new in film photography but I have some experience and education in chemistry.
 

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100’ hp5
100’ vision3 500T
 

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Don Heisz said:
Just wondering what that's for?
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According to old swedish patent it forms buffer with borax and if I did understand correctly it can also protect ascorbic acid/ascorbates from oxidation but that may be from somewhere else than in the patent
 
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Norman P2424 strobe power pack, I think the nicest one yet. I'm putting together a heavy duty studio strobe system on a budget with enough power for large format. Some of the power packs I've purchased go back over 40 years and have been in various states of repair from DOA to very good and one actually exploded. A capacitor failed causing an extreme adrenalin dump and all the magic smoke escaped. The paper and foil from the capacitor were contained inside the pack which is now a parts donor.
I'm not sure how much is GAS and how much is being realistic about older equipment but I'm past 11,000 WS. I don't want to be looking for rare equipment in the middle of a project and a new Norman 24D is $3,600.
 

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Pentacon_777 said:
According to old swedish patent it forms buffer with borax and if I did understand correctly it can also protect ascorbic acid/ascorbates from oxidation but that may be from somewhere else than in the patent
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I was going to suggest it was to sweeten the images, and the salicylic acid was to treat the acne the stuff causes... But I haven't looked at that patent...
 

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Donald Qualls said:
I was going to suggest it was to sweeten the images, and the salicylic acid was to treat the acne the stuff causes... But I haven't looked at that patent...
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This research is also interesting outside of patent US3022168A

THE INHIBITION OF CARBOHYDRATE OXIDATIONS BY BORATE

www.sciencedirect.com
But enough offtopic I may post someday on more suitable topic. I did find suitable thread

Swedish Ascorbic Acid Developer

Please ignore the formula in post no 1, I had not grasped the idea of this developer then. The Swedish developer example formula is given in post no 5, it dates from 1962. It used glycerol, which forms a complex with borax, to stop the pH dropping as the developer oxidises (Patent 2nd page)...
www.photrio.com
This is also very interesting thread

Ascorbate Chemistry 1

I finally found a publication which indirectly mentions interaction between Sulfite and oxidized form of aromatic rings which are fully substituted with -OH groups, just like oxidized Ascorbate. In this text the synthesis of Tetrahydroxy-p-Benzoquinone is described: A solution or 400 g (3.17...
www.photrio.com
 
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Ooooh!
That's impressive.
Glad you're ok...
 

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Bags full of generic 52mm 46mm and 43mm caps from DPReview's parent company, probably $1.25/cap - annotate the sizes with a white paint marker on the front.

Bag full of unbranded Nikon FX rear caps too, similar price.
 
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