what waS your last photography related purchase?

[scheimfluger_77]

A 3x4 Graphlex back and 5 3x4 film holders. Kind of regretting it since I'll need to adapt it to something...

 

[kraker]

Stocked up on some film (35mm: 10x HP5+, 30 metres HP5+, 10x Kentmere 100; 120: 10x Delta400, 4x5:25 sheets FP4+, 20 sheets Provia100F), BW paper chemicals and two 4x5 film holders (doubling my 4x5 field capacity).

Or, since one picture says more than 37 words, this is what I bought (one roll of HP5+ missing in the photo, since that's what I needed the most...)

 

[John_Nikon_F]

Two batteries (a CR 1/3N for my F2AS and a V 625 U for the Nikomat FTn), and a couple rolls of film (Portra 160 and 400, both 135-36).

-J

 

[Theo Sulphate]

Gossen Luna Pro F.

 

[1L6E6VHF]

Well, last Saturday, I made yet another find at one of my favorite sources of slide projectors - the Toledo DeVeaux Goodwill. The Atlas-Warner Model 66 "Super Screen" slide viewer (I beg to differ with them, technically, it's a rear-screen slide projector) has beautiful mid/late 1960s lines, cost me $6, and won't take up much space. Slide a clasp under the handle at the top and pull out the hinged front, and it reveals a projector (with 50 watt BLX lamp) aimed at a mirror (at an angle) that projects an image of the slide on the translucent screen. Place a stack of slides upside-down into the integral stackloader (which works very well) and easily change slides with a pull and a push. The little white cap by the stackloader is a push/pull focus knob. Surprise is that the projected image is very sharp. Ingenious part of the design is the plastic panel that blocks unwanted light from behind the model 66 when in use slides through a slot on the front to become a shield protecting the screen when closed.

Before I could get around to posting that, lightning struck twice in the same place on Wednesday afternoon. I was trying to burn time between getting out of work and the evening start of the Detroit Stereographic Society meeting when I noticed the D.A.V. Thrift Store in Westland. First thing I noticed was the Bell & Howell Headliner 706 projector. When I opened the cover and pulled the changer arm, the advance gear did not move as I had expected, and I figured the changer was broken. Then I noticed a shaft on the underside of the changer and noticed that the end of the changer knob is a knurled nob. The 706 has (B&H's own description) a semi-automatic changer. To use this changer, one pulls out the changer arm, and turns the knob at the end one click to advance the tray (TDC/Universal type) before pushing the next slide in. This design actually has an advantage - with the changer arm pulled out, one can advance or retreat to ANY slide in the tray (rather than pulling the knob in-and-out 35 times to go from slide 1 to slide 36, as in an Airequipt changer). The optics and workmanship on this appear to be superb. It has some dirt issues. It takes some time for the fan to get up to speed, and the covering on the cabinet (despite appearance, it is actually vinyl) somehow became discolored on the base, but not on the top cover. This was $ 5.98. The brand name is appropriate in my case - If my daughter finds out I brought yet another slide projector home, she'll bawl & howl!

In another room of the same store was a Kodak Moviedeck 455 8mm/Super 8 movie projector. I've been using a 435 for a few years, but the 455 is an upgrade. It allows projection at 18 or 5 fps, both in forward or reverse, as well as a still setting (the 435 is 18fps forward only), an integral screen that pulls out of the front (I don't know how often I'll use this), and, most importantly, a zoom lens, which somehow provides an image that is both larger and brighter than the lens on the 435 did. Somewhere along the decades (since June or July of 1975 - CAMEROSITY code YSSR in the serial number), some idiot decided they did not like the dust cover and broke it off at one end - not knowing or caring that the cover could be removed by pulling it upward past a pair of springs (for me the solution was to swap the dust cover of my 435 with it). For those not familiar with Moviedecks, they are sprocket-drive projectors where the feed reel lies flat on the top of the projector (like a phonograph record), the film path makes a quarter twist before going through the gate, and another quarter twist before being spooled into a built-in take-up reel inside the bottom of the projector. I'll be keeping the 435 as a spare (if something goes wrong with the 455, I can use its zoom lens on my 435). This only cost me $ 2.24 because it was "green sticker day".

 

[jeffreythree]

A clean Minolta MC W.Rokkor-SG 28mm f3.5 lens from KEH, and a Fujica lens hood and cap for my GL to get the cart to the free shipping order amount. I have had horrible luck finding anything wider than 50mm for my Minoltas that is not screwed up beyond belief and in my limited budget, everything from bad fungus to a skewed plane of focus(macro and infinity all in the same frame). Hoping the test roll is as nice as the cosmetics.

 

[scheimfluger_77]

A 3x4 Graphlex back and 5 3x4 film holders. Kind of regretting it since I'll need to adapt it to something...

Well boo! It turns out the 3x4 Graflex back was actually a 2x3. I will have to return and keep looking.

 

[Ian Grant]

An Ibsor shutter, I have a nice Lack Rathenow triplet with a falty shutter. It's a Press shutter that preceded the Prontor (Press).

Ian

 

[Oxleyroad]

Replacement photgraphic paper to replace 1/3 of my stock transported from Oz that was beyound salvage after a real good dose of x-rays on the docks. Ouch. But if anyone knows how to recover the silver from approx 1400 sq ft of paper...?

At least I will have fresh paper.

 

[baachitraka]

500 sheets of Ultrabrom in 13x18cm. So, lots of lith in the future.

 

[pdeeh]

Olympus XA2 with A11 flash, nearly mint. Charity shop find - £2.
Couldn't test it, might have been scrap for all I knew.
Just put new batteries in, everything works perfectly

 

[Ricardo Miranda]

Congratulations!
Hope you enjoy it.

Recently I bought some bulk film as usual every month or 2.

 

[canvassy]

A Bronica 75mm 2.8 PE to replace my 75 EII that has a shutter issue. Should be here Wednesday.

 

[Ian Grant]

An Ibsor shutter, I have a nice Lack Rathenow triplet with a falty shutter. It's a Press shutter that preceded the Prontor (Press).

Ian

The Ibsor arrive today, it's like new, never had a lens cells fitted, blank aperture scale, and amazingly it's Compur/Copal/Prontor #1 compatible It was described as having slow closing shutter blades, that was quickly fixed and it's as smooth as the day it was made.

I've found a few new (old stock) shutters like this and have spare Compur #00 and #0 as well as Vario and Pronto, Alphax etc.

IAn

 

[R.Gould]

Ensign autorange 220 folder which comes packagerd with an East Kilbride euromaster meter (Not a westom, this was made by EastKildride Instruments after Sangamo weston closed, it is a weston but could not be called so)

 

[Thomas Bertilsson]

16x20 Foma Fomabrom Variant 123 paper
135-36 film Fomapan 200
120 film Fomapan 200
ADOX FX-39 developer, 3 bottles. Going for super sharp and grainy.

 

[TheToadMen]

Got 3 packs (=75 sheets) of ILFORD HP5 PLUS 5x12 inch (expire date March 2017) in the mail from Harman.
Now all I got to do is to build me a wooden pinhole camera for this format and figure out a way to develop this film (tray & stand?).

 

[baachitraka]

16x20 Foma Fomabrom Variant 123 paper
135-36 film Fomapan 200
120 film Fomapan 200
ADOX FX-39 developer, 3 bottles. Going for super sharp and grainy.

I am curious how FX-39 go with Foma. Rodinal 1+25 is indeed very good for Foma if I watch the development times.

 

[Diapositivo]

A 2CR5 6V battery for my Yashica T3. The battery now in exercise doesn't want to die. I suspect it is immortal. I don't even remember when did I buy it. I bought a new battery today "just in case".

 

[Kyle M.]

This morning I bought an f64 BPX backpack for my LF kit, I should be able to fit any of the three 4x5's I have in it. I also bought an adapter board to use my Pacemaker Crown Graphic boards on my Pre-Anniversary Speed Graphic.

 

[Thomas Bertilsson]

I am curious how FX-39 go with Foma. Rodinal 1+25 is indeed very good for Foma if I watch the development times.

We will soon find out. I have a couple of rolls of Foma 200 in 120 waiting to be processed, but first I need to take care of a couple of rolls of Ilford Pan 400 that have waited even longer.

 

[Ian Grant]

6 5x4 Fidelity film holders, 6 10x8 Fidelity & 2 10x8 Wooden film holders all 8 for about the price of one on ebay , a new in its box Prontor Press #0 shutter, a Compound #3 shutter, 4 cable releases and a Kodak Beehive safe-light with OB filter. A good day

Ian

 

[ME Super]

Well, last Saturday, I made yet another find at one of my favorite sources of slide projectors - the Toledo DeVeaux Goodwill. The Atlas-Warner Model 66 "Super Screen" slide viewer (I beg to differ with them, technically, it's a rear-screen slide projector) has beautiful mid/late 1960s lines, cost me $6, and won't take up much space. Slide a clasp under the handle at the top and pull out the hinged front, and it reveals a projector (with 50 watt BLX lamp) aimed at a mirror (at an angle) that projects an image of the slide on the translucent screen. Place a stack of slides upside-down into the integral stackloader (which works very well) and easily change slides with a pull and a push. The little white cap by the stackloader is a push/pull focus knob. Surprise is that the projected image is very sharp. Ingenious part of the design is the plastic panel that blocks unwanted light from behind the model 66 when in use slides through a slot on the front to become a shield protecting the screen when closed.

Before I could get around to posting that, lightning struck twice in the same place on Wednesday afternoon. I was trying to burn time between getting out of work and the evening start of the Detroit Stereographic Society meeting when I noticed the D.A.V. Thrift Store in Westland. First thing I noticed was the Bell & Howell Headliner 706 projector. When I opened the cover and pulled the changer arm, the advance gear did not move as I had expected, and I figured the changer was broken. Then I noticed a shaft on the underside of the changer and noticed that the end of the changer knob is a knurled nob. The 706 has (B&H's own description) a semi-automatic changer. To use this changer, one pulls out the changer arm, and turns the knob at the end one click to advance the tray (TDC/Universal type) before pushing the next slide in. This design actually has an advantage - with the changer arm pulled out, one can advance or retreat to ANY slide in the tray (rather than pulling the knob in-and-out 35 times to go from slide 1 to slide 36, as in an Airequipt changer). The optics and workmanship on this appear to be superb. It has some dirt issues. It takes some time for the fan to get up to speed, and the covering on the cabinet (despite appearance, it is actually vinyl) somehow became discolored on the base, but not on the top cover. This was $ 5.98. The brand name is appropriate in my case - If my daughter finds out I brought yet another slide projector home, she'll bawl & howl!

In another room of the same store was a Kodak Moviedeck 455 8mm/Super 8 movie projector. I've been using a 435 for a few years, but the 455 is an upgrade. It allows projection at 18 or 5 fps, both in forward or reverse, as well as a still setting (the 435 is 18fps forward only), an integral screen that pulls out of the front (I don't know how often I'll use this), and, most importantly, a zoom lens, which somehow provides an image that is both larger and brighter than the lens on the 435 did. Somewhere along the decades (since June or July of 1975 - CAMEROSITY code YSSR in the serial number), some idiot decided they did not like the dust cover and broke it off at one end - not knowing or caring that the cover could be removed by pulling it upward past a pair of springs (for me the solution was to swap the dust cover of my 435 with it). For those not familiar with Moviedecks, they are sprocket-drive projectors where the feed reel lies flat on the top of the projector (like a phonograph record), the film path makes a quarter twist before going through the gate, and another quarter twist before being spooled into a built-in take-up reel inside the bottom of the projector. I'll be keeping the 435 as a spare (if something goes wrong with the 455, I can use its zoom lens on my 435). This only cost me $ 2.24 because it was "green sticker day".

Wow, what a haul!! Very nice indeed.

 

[ColColt]

My F2 Photomic was screaming for this so I bought it yesterday.

50 f1.4 Non-Ai by David Fincher, on Flickr

 

[John_Nikon_F]

A K-type 300/4.5 Nikkor. With AI conversion ring. Traded a 50/1.8 AF Nikkor and some cash for it.

Planning to pick up a 50/1.4 AI this week.

-J