what waS your last photography related purchase?

[RalphLambrecht]

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

made one today at IKEA;bought a 'lazy Susan'; it will be a great tool for some table photography; I caqn place the subject ontop of it and photograph it from angle without having to move around the table!

 

[NedL]

A dozen more 2" foam brushes. I've been using a new one for every salt print.

I don't like them very much, but the way I've been making my prints lately uses a starch with a lot of amylose, which doesn't dissolve in cold water. So if a little gets on a brush during coating, it doesn't wash off in distilled water and later causes trouble. I've just started some tests to see if it's possible to wash a brush in water hot enough to remove the starch but not so hot as to damage the bristles. If it works I'll be getting a nice new brush soon.

 

[ozphoto]

I picked up a little, leather filter case for my 24mm B&W red filter - fits perfectly and is in amazing condition!

 

[guangong]

Last of the big spenders...50 stereo slide mounts from Dr. T

 

[rayonline_nz]

180mm Mamiya RB67 K/L lens. $95USD.

 

[Pentode]

Another busy day at The Second Sunday Camera Show:
A Minolta SR-1 (1959 version) with an Auto Rokkor 55/2
An original 1959 Asahi Pentax model K with a Super Takumar 55/2
A Super Takumar 50/1.4
An Iskra 1 from 1963 (shutter issues - it may go back to the seller next month)
A Weston Master V in very nice shape

Oh, and processing for six rolls of C41 and two rolls of E6.

 

[Helios 1984]

I've found this 126 cartridge at a flea market.

 

[Kino]

I've found this 126 cartridge at a flea market.

Do you reload them with 35mm?

 

[Helios 1984]

Do you reload them with 35mm?

Not at the moment as I don't own an Instamatic but I purchased it to do that. Eventually.
I wonder how old it is and if there are any latent images on the film?

 

[Theo Sulphate]

...
I wonder how old it is and if there are any latent images on the film?

Kodacolor II was introduced in 1972, so at its oldest that cartridge would be 47 years old. That's worst case. My bet is that you could get the exposed images.

Frame 10 is obviously zapped.

Go for it. Get a nice 126 camera, expose the remaining frames and see what you get.

Maybe the first nine shots will lead to buried treasure.

Whatever they are, it'll be a look at the distant past.

 

[Kino]

Could be... Probably be best to process it as B&W. I processed a 30+ year old roll of 126 and got very grainy, faint images. The orange mask was super dense, but that roll was C-22. YMMV.

 

[Helios 1984]

Kodacolor II was introduced in 1972, so at its oldest that cartridge would be 47 years old. That's worst case. My bet is that you could get the exposed images.

Frame 10 is obviously zapped.

Go for it. Get a nice 126 camera, expose the remaining frames and see what you get.

Maybe the first nine shots will lead to buried treasure.

Whatever they are, it'll be a look at the distant past.

I'll do that, I like to experiment with expired stuff.
I did a bit of research and it looks like the film speed is 80 ISO. If Wikipedia is correct, Kodakcolor II 80 ISO was produced from '72 to '75.
So, at best, the film would have expired in '77.

Could be... Probably be best to process it as B&W. I processed a 30+ year old roll of 126 and got very grainy, faint images. The orange mask was super dense, but that roll was C-22. YMMV.

How did you process this film? Rodinal stand 1 hour?

 

[Roger Thoms]

Sad but true, call me a loser cause I am. Epson SureColor P800 printer.

Roger

 

[Helios 1984]

I got these on eBay for 16$USD shipping included.

 

[Kino]

I'll do that, I like to experiment with expired stuff.
I did a bit of research and it looks like the film speed is 80 ISO. If Wikipedia is correct, Kodakcolor II 80 ISO was produced from '72 to '75.
So, at best, the film would have expired in '77.



How did you process this film? Rodinal stand 1 hour?

No. Just D-76 with 2 extra minutes more development time at "normal" conditions.

 

[railwayman3]

A Hoya 81B filter. I have a batch of Ektachrome 100G which, although frozen, seems to be starting to give a certain bluish "coldness" to results.

 

[Nokton48]

Stuff from Photographers Formulary.
PMK Pyro: Mine was twenty five years old and thick rusty brown. And some TF4 fixer.
Also, their version of Selectol Soft, and Dr Beers variable contrast print developer. For my graded papers....

 

[Black Dog]

A Pentax MV body from FFordes in Invernesshire...something nice, inexpensive and compact to use my collection of K-mount lenses on.

 

[removed account4]

a couple of handfulls of small square and rectangular clay boards from the local art supply place to print cyanotypes on

 

[Helios 1984]

Go for it. Get a nice 126 camera, expose the remaining frames and see what you get.

Maybe the first nine shots will lead to buried treasure.

I’ve just purchased a nice Instamatic 714 with the rigid carry case.

Not the actual item.
Image source: Adam Paul - Quirky Guy With A Camera

 

[guangong]

Four 10 slide boxes of 67 glass slide mounts.

 

[jtk]

A Samsung 24mm bright frame optical finder that I've mounted on Graflex 23 ...corresponds to 47mm Super Angulon.

 

[Dennis-B]

Got both of these, a couple of weeks apart. Both on eBay, one from New Hampshire (GSN), the other from Japan (GTN). Battery from Yashica Guy site on the way for the GTN, already have one for the GSN.

 

[RalphLambrecht]

a laz

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

y-susan for table-top photography

 

[Peter Schrager]

Lodima conservation materials ..mounting boards and filing for 8x10 negatives
All the odds and ends for making my own pyrocat-mc plus a hot plate.
Hot plate will come in handy also for making aristotypes or emulsion for coating plates