what waS your last photography related purchase?

[Colin DeWolfe]

Concentrate to make 40 litres of RA4 and C41.

 

[pdeeh]

An unopened box of 100 10x8 Kenthene vc paper off eBay for a tad under £8 ... Should do nicely for paper negs despite it being a bit old

 

[NedL]

I bought some internet bandwidth to look for "three bare legs" and "last supper" and a NY-born photographer who did more work to the Southwest of there, but not all the way down in the American SouthWest. Actually at one point I thought I'd figured out who the photographer might be, but now I can't remember.... (there was a url link here which no longer exists).

 

[RalphLambrecht]

couid be a give away, freebee, book, equipment, film, chemistry
just something related to making photographs, or thinking about making photographs ...

Yesterday! After 20 years,I had to buy the first replacement flashtube for my Speedotron Brownline system.Itfell to the ground and broke.

 

[baachitraka]

Praktica L2 and Praktica MTL 5B

 

[TheToadMen]

Yesterday! After 20 years,I had to buy the first replacement flashtube for my Speedotron Brownline system.Itfell to the ground and broke.

With "It fell" I hope you didn't mean the replacement, did you?

 

[Sirius Glass]

EX+ Hasselblad strap which is 1" wide. The 2" wide one sheds black on my shirt collar to it gets retired.

 

[Two23]

A C.C. Harrison Petzval lens, roughly 5 in. FL, in very good shape. Serial dates it to 1851.


Kent in SD

 

[PCC]

Don't trim the 120 roll. The spindle on 120 film is fatter than that of the skinnier 620 roll.
Just re-roll the 120 film into one of the 620 spindles and keep it wound tight. There should be a burble (excess) in the film which you will release and then tape it down with a bit of masking tape.

Interestingly enough, I bought a roll film back for the 4X5 view camera and it came with an empty 120 spool. I installed it into the USCC Comet to see what kind of clearance I would need and it dropped right in with about a half millimeter clearance all around. I moved it from the take up side to the supply side and found that there was no binding at all and the winding knob worked just fine with the 120 spool. Looks like I'm good to go. I just need to go out and buy some film.

 

[Truzi]

So far, the only used equipment I've purchased has been online or in camera stores. Last Friday I went to an estate sale that advertised a B&W enlarger and "developing equipment." I don't need another enlarger, and figured the "equipment" would be reels and such, but thought I'd check it out anyway, hoping for a print washer or something.

I picked up a Jimi Hendrix Are You Experienced music book for $1 US, lol.

The enlarger was not interesting, so I passed; I don't even remember the brand.
The "equipment" was a taped-over box with 3 barely used Yankee 8x10 plastic trays, used plastic AP 2-reel tank, a plastic reel with a mangled roll of developed film spooled in it (I found the reel doesn't load, hence the mangled film), NIB Promaster dial thermometer and NIB Promaster plastic film clips - plus other items (and chemicals) I could not see without ripping the tape.

I figured the chemicals were dead, but the trays, thermometer, and clips were worth the $2 price tag.

When I got home and unpacked it, I found a complete set of 3.5" x 3.5" Ilford Multigrade Filters (one trimmed), 5 different colors of powdered tempera, Yankee Safelight, Hollywood film splicer, a couple cheap stainless tongs, squeegee, 300ml plastic graduated cylinder, NIB Delta 1 Brightlab Junior red safelight bulb, and an opened pack of 5x7 Polymax RC paper. The chemicals were open, all about 80% present, and most likely dead (except the Kodak Indicator Stop smells likes it's good) - they included Tmax and Polymax developers, and Polymax fixer. Odd items included the top of a wooden print easel (out-of-square and with bent blades), four 4"-long flared metal pipes (like you would find under your sink, but smaller in diameter), and some aluminum contraption with a glass-cutter attached - it turned out to be a bottle/jug cutter.
Three books were included:
The Basic Darkroom Book (Special Edition for Omega owners)
Kodak Black & White Darkroom Dataguide
Kodak Basic Developing & Printing in Black and White

For another dollar I picked up a Da-Lite Challenger 40x40 projection screen. It smells like a basement, but is in decent shape.

So far this purchase is unremarkable and barely worth mentioning.

However, in the garage I found a TDC Vivid 116 Stereo projector for $10 (which led me to redouble my search for other related items, to no avail). The outside of the box is fair, and clasps rusting, but the projector is in quite good shape. Although I was not looking for something like this, I have wanted one. I've not yet tested it, but it will not be too complicated for me to fix if there is a problem.

Not bad for $14 total.

 

[Manwithacam]

My most recent purchases have been a Minolta 5000 AF (Dynax/Maxxum/Alpha) with Minolta 50mm f1.7 AF lens and the 2800AF Program Flash for £20 and a Zenit 12XP body for £3.99, which is missing the battery cover.

Does anyone else have a problem with the £ (Pound) sign displaying correctly in Tapatalk on Windows Phone and IOS?

 

[TheToadMen]

A black Olympus Mju I for $5 still working. I love the Mju II (great lens and light meter) so I'm curious what the differences will (not) be between these two cameras.

 

[OptiKen]

<gulp>
A Canon IVSB2 in mint condition
A Leica IIIF also in mint condition.

Now I have to decide which one I will keep

 

[benjiboy]

I haven't bought anything photographic for about two years because after being into photography for over sixty years if I haven't got it by now I don't need it.

 

[LouCioccio]

A Bronica ETRs with prism, 150/4, and a 220 back. I also added a 120 back/w insert. All used and has character. I budgeted my self to 300$ as I had gotten rid of my Mamyia 330f several years back when I went digital. From time to time I use my Nikon FM and go Retro on our groups Photo Safari's. Anyway I think the 120 is defective as it acts like no film in the "top" reel as it goes to the take up (dark slide removed) it does not advance the S to frame one nor cocks the shutter. So I re-rolled the 120 but put it in the 220 back KNOWING that it is a short roll. It works as advertised, cocks the shutter and I can take the frame. After #15 I can take a few more (again KNOWING film has ended and its crap anyway) then it free wheels as the paper has ended. I can return the 120 back to camera store.
Any insight on my trouble shooting.
Lou Cioccio

 

[TheToadMen]

I haven't bought anything photographic for about two years because after being into photography for over sixty years if I haven't got it by now I don't need it.

new film?

 

[benjiboy]

new film?

I don't need any Bert, I have a chest freezer full of it in my basement.

 

[Sirius Glass]

A Bronica ETRs with prism, 150/4, and a 220 back. I also added a 120 back/w insert. All used and has character. I budgeted my self to 300$ as I had gotten rid of my Mamyia 330f several years back when I went digital. From time to time I use my Nikon FM and go Retro on our groups Photo Safari's. Anyway I think the 120 is defective as it acts like no film in the "top" reel as it goes to the take up (dark slide removed) it does not advance the S to frame one nor cocks the shutter. So I re-rolled the 120 but put it in the 220 back KNOWING that it is a short roll. It works as advertised, cocks the shutter and I can take the frame. After #15 I can take a few more (again KNOWING film has ended and its crap anyway) then it free wheels as the paper has ended. I can return the 120 back to camera store.
Any insight on my trouble shooting.
Lou Cioccio

Welcome to APUG

 

[pdeeh]

72mm k2.

 

[TheToadMen]

I don't need any Bert, I have a chest freezer full of it in my basement.

a bottle of Laphroaig or Lagavulin?

 

[ambaker]

A Mercury Flash and bulb for my Mercury II.


Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD

 

[Dan Fromm]

Just got a 180/4.8 Ilex Acuton as a pair of cells. They fit a Compur/Copal/... #1 shutter. The rear cell had internal schmutz so I took it apart, cleaned the glass and reassembled. Put cells in a shutter, mounted the lens on a camera and lo! the image on the ground glass was fuzzy. So I checked. Sure enough, I'd reassembled the rear cell with the singlet that faces the shutter oriented the wrong way. Dismantled, remantled and all was well. Learn from my mistake.

 

[pdeeh]

I do so love the word "remantled"

anyhoo, I met a bloke in a supermarket carpark today and handed him £35, in exchange for which I got a Manfrotto 075 'pod + Manfrotto 029 MkII head.

I don't think I'm in Kansas any more ... in fact, I'm starting to wonder if the old saw about there being nothing worth photographing more than 30' from the car is pretty a Universal Truth ...

 

[Sirius Glass]

Hypo check solution. I cannot find the one I bought earlier this year.

 

[mstricklandimages]

An Arca Swiss F-Line Metric 8x10 and a Leica MP.