what waS your last photography related purchase?

[pdeeh]

Photography Yearbook 1953

 

[skorpiius]

10 more packs of FP-3000b.... I have a problem.

 

[Black Dog]

At least you have lots of film though!

 

[skorpiius]

At least you have lots of film though!

30 packs so far! Aiming for 50.

 

[Carriage]

My chemicals are ~ 6months old so:
Bag of d76
ilford rapid fixer
Ilford MG paper dev

plus
pack of 8x10 MG RC Pearl
a new LED safelight bulb
a 135-36 roll of portra 800 as it's the only speed they had and I felt like trying portra on a whim.

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

1/9th plate daguerreotype of two brothers.

 

[TheToadMen]

Hand coloured Albumen print from about 1885 by Kusakabe Kimbei (1841-1934), called: Road at Miyanoshita, Japan (size 20 x 26 cm).

 

[jeffreythree]

Since I was right around the corner, I finally made it Don's in Dallas for the first time a few days ago. Picked up a few necessities and one lonely 500 ct box of 4x5 Kodak Polymax II RC paper tucked away on a bottom shelf for $25. I am set for lumens for a while if it is fogged, but I could not resist. Probably use it for that anyway since my little girl likes doing that kind of stuff.

 

[nbagno]

Kodak / Pakon f135+ scanner

Sent from my SM-N900V using Tapatalk

 

[Richard S. (rich815)]

$10 for a working Minolta Freedom Explorer Zoom with film and battery. Bought for a friend of my 14-year old son. My son and his friends all of a sudden are showing huge interest in film cameras. There is hope for the future.

 

[John_Nikon_F]

More film processing. Gear acquisitions will be seen in the new old camera thread.

-J

 

[Black Dog]

Hand coloured Albumen print from about 1885 by Kusakabe Kimbei (1841-1934), called: Road at Miyanoshita, Japan (size 20 x 26 cm).

Nice picture Bert!

 

[pdeeh]

Nice!

worth reading, though a touch conventional in his insistence on a sort of watery structuralist vocabulary.

Most annoyingly of all, however, he seems to think that "invariably" is identical in meaning to "often" ...

 

[Jeff Bradford]

An Ansco 6x7 contact printer, a pre-AI Nikkor 135mm for my Nikon F, some enlarger parts.

 

[scheimfluger_77]

A 9-1/2" Velostigmat Series II w/dial-a-fuz, from a forum member.

 

[Ian Grant]

A 120mm f6.8 Dopp. Anastigmat Serie III Dagor for £30 in a Compound shutter, my guess is the lens dates from 1911/12. after that it was supplied in a Compur.

Also a 3" (75mm) f1.9 Oscillo-Raptar which is pretty useless as it's marked for 1:0.9x however it's the Alphax shutter that comes with it that I really wanted and it was only £10.50 (15$).

Ian

 

[Black Dog]

worth reading, though a touch conventional in his insistence on a sort of watery structuralist vocabulary.

Most annoyingly of all, however, he seems to think that "invariably" is identical in meaning to "often" ...

Have you read On Being A Photographer, by David Hurn and Bill Jay? Also Approaching Photography by Paul Hill? Both manage to avoid the Artspeak trap.

 

[pdeeh]

I understand most Artspeak, and it's not the terminology in itself that I found trying in Clarke. It seems odd to say in some way, but the structuralist/post-structuralist/semiotics/Freud-cum-Lacan which have dominated art criticism over the past few decades read very conventionally to me now. Plus I can't help feeling Clarke's theoretical understanding is a bit thin ... not that mine is any less thin, of course, but I recently read Hal Foster's "Bad New Days and it was clear on every page that Foster really knows his stuff (even when I disagreed with it, or didn't understand it).

I've found Ian Jeffery's books more stimulating, and thanks for the two suggestions. Most of my art theory reading is restricted to what I can find cheap in Oxfam shops, or AwesomeBooks or WorldOfBooks though!

Hmm we're heading off at a bit of a wild tangent to the thread here ... sorry for the book review

 

[TheToadMen]

4 rolls of Agfa Vista Plus 200/36 for 2.49 each in a drug store.

 

[twelvetone12]

My first pack of FB paper, Ilford MGFB Classic!

 

[TheToadMen]

My first pack of FB paper, Ilford MGFB Classic!

Enjoy the learning curve!

 

[ManicPixie]

Holga camera

 

[twelvetone12]

Enjoy the learning curve!

Thanks! I did a couple test prints, I'm already hooked!

 

[winterclock]

Mamiya dsx500

 

[ambaker]

Rondinax 35U for cheap money. They are getting crazy expensive.


-More cameras than brains... Sadly it didn't take very many.