what waS your last photography related purchase?

[Ian Grant]

Just bought a CZJ 135mm Sonnar for my Praktina cameras, now after some Flektagons, got to have a full pro Praktina system Saving for the 75mm f1.5 Biotar

Why when I don't shoot 35mm ? Or rather haven't seriously for maybe 20+ years less than 5 films, it's time to return. The Sikh shop owner just down the roadalways cheats me every week when I buy my National Lottery icket, I'm sure it's deliberate . . . . . . they should always be winning numbers.

My only lust (at the moment) is for a 5x4 Sanderon camera, press style not field with red bellows, .Graflex and other US companies copie the design with changes not always benificial.

Ian. .

 

[rick shaw]

Nikon 105mm macro lens.

 

[Ian Grant]

Awaiting delivery of a 6.5x9 KW Patent Etui it was half the usual price from an Ebay seller I know personally, the focus screen is cracked but as I make 100+ a year that's no issue. As it happens I have 2 sets of 3 cased 6.5x9 KW plate holders and film inserts, a pack film holder. and more usefullua boxed Rada 6x9 roll film back with isnerts for 6x6 and 4.5x6. Put togeter as a set it's worth many times what I paid for the camera

Also in the post is a Ross Combinable 5½" f5.5 / 9½" f11 lens. A few days ago a CZJ f4 135mm Sonnar arrived for my KW Praktinas, it's in really nice condition optically perfect.

Ian

 

[khh]

I just bought a Carl Zeiss Distagon 50mm f/4.0 for my Rolleiflex SL66 camera. I'm very much looking forward to getting to use it.

 

[Bikerider]

Nikon 24/120 AFG lens to replace my 28/105. I wanted something a touch wider and at the tele end a bit longer and the new lens fills that slot nicely. The downside is it will not work on my F4 because it does not have an aperture ring. I still have my 35/70 F2.8 AFD constant aperture and for most of my purposes that will do with a bit of help from my 20/35.

 

[Donald Qualls]

I bought a 90mm Angulon in shutter and ordered a lens board for it to go on my Speed Graphic and Graphic View.

 

[removed account4]

Tartaric acid

 

[rick shaw]

Canon Pro Platinum Glossy printer paper.

 

[pbromaghin]

To make the Voigtlander Bessa I ready for Spring with Ilford SFX, a 49mm r72 filter and a push-on adaptor for 49mm filters.

 

[Dave Ludwig]

Took a chance on an APO Nikkor 480mm as a starter lens for a ULF build. Expected the worst based on pics and confirmed upon receipt. Had small dots on front lens that looked like over spray from a spray can of lacquer. Dismantled, cleaned glass with IPA and distilled, 2 hours later glass is perfect, not even cleaning marks. Best $50 I ever spent.

 

[pbromaghin]

2 bags of d76, a bag of fixer, 100 120 and 50 35mm Print File sleeves. And a really cool Testrite Adjustable Vignetter from the 50s. Englewood Camera has drawers lining a a wall that are really fun to dig through and you never know what you'll find. I'd never seen anything like the vignetter, nor had the sales guy and he instantly wanted one.

 

[0x001688936CA08]

Semi-accidentally purchased a Rodenstock 135/5.6 APO Sironar-S.

I’m slowly gearing up to shoot 4x5, and using a Mamiya 7 for the last couple of years has made me somewhat obsessed with technical image quality.

Bought a 135mm over a 150mm Sironar-S because I already have a Schneider 150/5.6 APO Symmar L.

 

[baachitraka]

Diana F+ and accessories for €15

 

[Nicholas Lindan]

It's tempting to prowl Surplus Shed to try to find a 50mm glass doublet, and get two of those to replace the plastic lenses.

Well, I'll be damned (no need, really, happened some time ago...) https://www.surplusshed.com/pages/item/L3955.html - 49mm fl, 13mm dia, coated, $7.50 and they say they have lots. Almost makes me want to get a "Krappy Kam" and put them in it.

The proper mounting is with the concave side to the subject and the f-stop in front of the lens. For some reason the center of curvature of the front element comes to mind as the stop position. Probably f/11 would be the stop to aim for - 5mm hole. The viewing lens can be 'wide open' at f/4.

 

[Sirius Glass]

I do not know but I have spent too much time stuck inside. I have not had a delivery for a few days. I cannot stand it. If the mail, UPS, FedEx, or DHL truck goes up my street without stopping, I want to run after it and chase it up the street! Please send me something! Anything! Even an empty box!

 

[Donald Qualls]

Well, I'll be damned (no need, really, happened some time ago...) https://www.surplusshed.com/pages/item/L3955.html - 49mm fl, 13mm dia, coated, $7.50 and they say they have lots. Almost makes me want to get a "Krappy Kam" and put them in it.

The proper mounting is with the concave side to the subject and the f-stop in front of the lens. For some reason the center of curvature of the front element comes to mind as the stop position. Probably f/11 would be the stop to aim for - 5mm hole. The viewing lens can be 'wide open' at f/4.

Yes, this is the way the lenses in many early Brownies were mounted -- made the cameras look like the lens was missing (first thing you see is the aperture, then the shutter behind it, lens visible only when the shutter is open). I don't recall CoC as the correct location for the stop, but it probably isn't far wrong, and I recall it not being very critical.

I'll wishlist that lens and order some next payday. I've got two more of the Recesky camera kits on the way, planning to save at least one for after I get a 3D printer and can make a proper frame counter/advance stop to replace the "wheel with an arrow" original to the kit.

 

[pbromaghin]

100' of both HP5 and FP4, almost the last of the old stock from Freestyle at $80. New stock will be $100 each.

 

[Dan Fromm]

Just went nuts and bought a 215/6.3 Ilex Acutar in (!) a barrel from a 210/9 Schneider G-Claron from a seller on eBay. It was cheap, the cells should go into a #1 and it was Ilex' answer to the Commercial Ektar. In other words, a very good grade of tessar clone. The funny thing is that I've known the seller for years. I'm a little surprised he didn't offer it here.

 

[Kino]

Got a pair of reproduction Rolleiflex camera strap clips with strap loops on them. Not bad quality and much cheaper than a vintage, brittle strap.

 

[John Bragg]

A Tamron Adaptall 2 mount as new in box. Olympus OM fit. It was such a bargain that I couldn't resist. Shame the Nikon version is going for silly money.

 

[Donald Qualls]

We'll see if I decide I shouldn't have, but...

I ran across a video from 2013 on building the Lomography Konstructor. This is a 35mm SLR of the Holga school (fixed f/10 aperture, 1/80 or B, non-instant return, plastic lens) that is sold as a kit. I went to the linked page and found that not only was it still offered, there was stock on the "deluxe kit" which includes a tripod mount grip handle with hot shoe adapter to plug into the PC sync socket, two macro/closeup lens add-ons, and a magnified chimney finder (the standard finder is a waist level hood with focusing magnifier).

The lens is actually interchangeable, or at least removable (though as far as I know there's only the one sold for it -- unless the close-up and macro lenses are complete lens assemblies rather than just add-on diopters) but once I get a 3D printer, I'll be able to make mount adapters and put M42 lenses on the camera (operating in preset mode -- I've got at least a couple that support this). No automatic diaphragm support, obviously, and the mirror and "safety shutter" under it form the shutter slit.

For under $60 shipped and taxed for the full kit, I bought one (camera only, without grip, shoe adapter, chimney, and accessory lenses, is just over half that figure). Should be here in about a week.

At the least, it's a step up from the Recesky, since it has a proper advance stop and frame counter (though no double exposure interlock).

 

[mshchem]

I'm building shelves to make room for more stuff. I'm astonished at the amount of darkroom stuff I've accumulated.

 

[Jason Berge]

Bought yet another box of Polaroid Type55.

 

[moggi1964]

Helios 44-2 Zebra with M42 mount.

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

A roll of 60" wide Translum to use as a screen for projecting backlit objects onto, and then photographing them.