what waS your last photography related purchase?

[Donald Qualls]

A Kodak Pocket Instamatic 40 -- for the Kalimar Strobe-a-Flash included with it, to go on my Pocket Instamatic 60. This is a pretty basic fixed-power ('70s consumer tech) strobe, special mainly because it mounts on the tripod socket of the correct family of Pocket Instamatic cameras, and triggers from the Magicube socket. I knew there had to be such a device...

 

[BSP]

A Minolta XD5 for my lazy aperture priority days

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

20 boxes 120 Pan F arrived at my local camera shop!

 

[mshchem]

20 boxes 120 Pan F arrived at my local camera shop!

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Very Nice! That beats my brick of 10 rolls of 120 FP4 Plus

 

[mshchem]

PS save your old Ilford film boxes, the ones with white flaps on both ends. These boxes, have development times for non Ilford developers like XTOL and Rodinal.

 

[Sirius Glass]

20 boxes 120 Pan F arrived at my local camera shop!

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I am glad to see that you brought the bricks to keep them from the hoarders. Now put them in the freeze until you have time to shoot all that one roll at a time.

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

I am glad to see that you brought the bricks to keep them from the hoarders. Now put them in the freeze until you have time to shoot all that one roll at a time.

I'll leave a couple rolls in the fridge just in case it doesn't rain this weekend. The rest will go in the freezer... With all my other bricks and sheet film!

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

And I can't forget the Mamiya 6 I bought but can't get my hands on as it's sitting at my sister in law's in Japan! Photo by my sister in law.

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

And according to my wife, this was my last photographic purchase!

... for a while, anyway... Heh heh heh.

 

[Sirius Glass]

And according to my wife, this was my last photographic purchase!

... for a while, anyway... Heh heh heh.

Oh, I always had that camera. You just do not remember it, dear.

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

Oh, I always had that camera. You just do not remember it, dear.

Now why didn't I think of that??

 

[Donald Qualls]

Now why didn't I think of that??

It doesn't work if they ship to the house. You need an alternate pickup location -- and a way to dispose of packaging materials.

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

It doesn't work if they ship to the house. You need an alternate pickup location -- and a way to dispose of packaging materials.

Before covid, I had items sent to Blaine, WA, just over the border...

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

Ok. This is the LAST purchase... Mamiya 6 case

 

[Kino]

Ok. This is the LAST purchase... Mamiya 6 case

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Sure... Sure...

 

[Sirius Glass]

It doesn't work if they ship to the house. You need an alternate pickup location -- and a way to dispose of packaging materials.

Yes, well thought out.

 

[Kyle M.]

2 1 liter bottles of Kodak HC-110.
Never used this developer before but for some reason it was being sold for $17.99 a bottle, 1/2 of regular price.
As it keeps forever I thought it would be nice to have on hand in case I run out of my regular developer.

HC-110 is great, that’s all I used before I mixed up my current batch of obsidian Aqua.

 

[Kyle M.]

A black DE-1 for my black F2 because the “tested and working” DP-1 was actually dead. I also ordered a Peak Design Leash.

 

[Ian Grant]

A half full box of Whole Plate Ilford HP3 to make Focus screens. Just stripped the emulsion off 3

Ian

 

[DWThomas]

A pair of Viltrox VL-192T Bi-Color LED Panels -- yes, they are overkill, but B&H had them on sale and I'm tired of wrestling larger softboxes into place for small projects. (Most notably including Zoom meetings! )

 

[removed account4]

mat board and foam core for a camera to be made, ink and Japanese salt for prints

 

[markjwyatt]

A half full box of Whole Plate Ilford HP3 to make Focus screens. Just stripped the emulsion off 3

Ian

Are you going to etch them or grind them?

 

[Ian Grant]

Are you going to etch them or grind them?

I grind them, I make quite a lot of screens every year, just occasionally I need thinner glass. In this case it's for an MPP Micro Technical which has a hinged focus hood so thickness is critical.

Ian

 

[blockend]

A few 30 metre tins of Fomapan B&W film.

 

[ic-racer]

CR123 batteries.