what waS your last photography related purchase?

[Andrew O'Neill]

Just picked up a 50 sheet box of 4x5 Efke IR.

 

[murdockhendrix]

Fujicolor PRO 400H Professional Color Negative Film (120 Roll Film, 5 Pack)
CineStill Cs41 2 Bath Developing Kit (Powder)

 

[mshchem]

Just picked up a 50 sheet box of 4x5 Efke IR.

This stuff is getting hard to find! Enjoy!

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

This stuff is getting hard to find! Enjoy!

I plan on it! I still have about 25 sheets of it in 8x10. I've been sloooooowly shooting it over several years.

 

[Philippe-Georges]

Having my old Rolleiflex TLR Xenotar repaired (the first camera I had during my studies).
Now I am looking for a yellow filter in bayonet II size for it.

 

[Donald Qualls]

Picked up an Autographic Vest Pocket Kodak from KEH eBay store -- UG grade, but shutter is good and bellows (they say) is light tight (not the case for my other one). Has the Periskop type double meniscus, f/8, vs. the single meniscus f/11 on the old one, and cosmetically better, despite (based on patent dates) being a little older. Now I need to order some more 127 film, or get around to cutting and spooling a roll or two to test with (probably order it; cut from 120 works better on 4x4 than on full or half frame 127 cameras).

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

Picked up an Autographic Vest Pocket Kodak from KEH eBay store -- UG grade, but shutter is good and bellows (they say) is light tight (not the case for my other one). Has the Periskop type double meniscus, f/8, vs. the single meniscus f/11 on the old one, and cosmetically better, despite (based on patent dates) being a little older. Now I need to order some more 127 film, or get around to cutting and spooling a roll or two to test with (probably order it; cut from 120 works better on 4x4 than on full or half frame 127 cameras).

The "Soldiers Camera"!

 

[Donald Qualls]

The "Soldiers Camera"!

Yep. The one I already had carried a 1921 patent date, but the lastest I see on this one is 1913. Providing the rear cover hasn't been replaced with an older one, of course....

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

4x5 Adox CMS 20 II. This stuff ain't cheap... But man it's fun to play with!

 

[AnselMortensen]

A used Vivitar plastic roll-film processing tank (a Paterson clone) with an adjustable plastic reel so I can process my own 220 film...I have a stainless 220 reel, and am more comfortable with stainless (usually), but my last go-around with 220/stainless didn't go so well.

Fixer.
Hypo Clear
Kentmere 400/36

I wanted to pick up some Rodinal, but it's on back order.

 

[Disconnekt]

Got a 3A Kodak Series III camera (for $60 shipped) & 2 rolls of expired 220 film ($20 for all 3 on evilbay) to sacrifice/do some testing with on one of my other Kodak folding cameras

 

[Kodachromeguy]

Another big spender here: a Leitz Gr filter for the 5 cm Summitar lens at an excellent price. Now I have a yellow, deep yellow, and green filters and will not need to carry the Ser. VI adapter and filters. I wish I could buy some more of the Leitz clear plastic filter cases that can slide together.

 

[LesaC]

I just bought more Instax film for my RZ67 with a zinstax back

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

A box of 4x5 FP4+, a box of 4x5 Ilford Ortho, and since they finally came back in stock, a Holga 120 Pan 6x12 camera. I may love it, I may hate it, or I may be totally ambivalent to it and keep it around to hack it into a rigid-body 6x12 with a good glass lens in a shutter (or heck, adapt one of the lenses from my Lomo Belair onto it).

 

[Roger Thoms]

Just bought a Shimoda Designs Explore V2 35 with the large DSLR core unit. This is for my Chamonix 4x5 kit. So far I’m impressed with the backpack and was able to configure the dividers to work fairly well with the 4x5. The backpack has plenty of adjustment and I was able the get a very good fit. The nice thing is that I can get additional core units so I can use the backpack for different camera kits. I think the next one will be for my GX680.

Roger

 

[awty]

This old clunker, for the pricey amount of $99 aud ($70us), came with the lenses and roll of colour film. Seller described it as non functional as the film was stuck on 1 and would not advance...seems he had it on multiple exposure oops. The view finder is askew and has some fungus, but apart from that it looks pretty good.....wonder is it takes good pictures.

 

[Ian Grant]

A Butcher Popular Pressman quarter plate reflex camera, fully working, and a TP Ruby Reflex quarter plate camera, needing slight attention. Then a box of Paterson developing tanks, many new with extra ree;s plus some Jobo reels.

Ian

 

[Philippe-Georges]

Yesterday, a brick (10 pcs.) of Ilford HP5+/120 and 5 rolls of FP4+.
All for in my Rolleiflex who's underway from a thorough CLA by Jano Urda.

 

[jay moussy]

Auction site stroll, a mis-titled 120 folder, that looks like a Balda. Fixed focus!
Why buy this? I dunno.
Has dual in-line red windows, so I need to find instructions how to use these.
EDIT: there seems to be focus distance markings on ring, will see them when arrives.

It seems to be part of a series of budget folders of the era (1930s-40s), many rebadged, several shutter/lens combinations.

 

[Donald Qualls]

Has dual in-line red windows, so I need to find instructions how to use these.

That suggests it's a 6x9 that originally came with a 6x4.5 format mask. Unless you have the mask in, you'd use only the first red window; the second is for half frame.

 

[jay moussy]

That suggests it's a 6x9 that originally came with a 6x4.5 format mask. Unless you have the mask in, you'd use only the first red window; the second is for half frame.

Yes, I did find the details about the red window dance for 6x4.5. no mask, so not applicable. And why negate (heh) the 6x9 benefit anyway?

Now, I need to figure the proper film speed(s) to use, with this fixed focus. I thought I had a grip on that for box camera use, then, I let them sit for a while, and I forgot!

 

[Donald Qualls]

why negate (heh) the 6x9 benefit anyway?

For most cameras like this, aimed at consumers in the 1930s to 1950s, film and processing were a significant cost. My family used to get two Christmases on a 12 exposure roll of 620 or vacation and a birthday on a 20 exposure 126. The mask allowed making that expensive roll of film last twice as long by getting 16 frames instead of 8 -- at the cost of Grandma being much more likely to crop off Dad's head, of course. The lens focal length was more of a "portrait" length for that format, too, helping with "get closer" advice.

My Moskva 5 has a mask too, but it's 6x6 (with a window selector that locks the shutter on the one you're not using and a movable mask in the viewfinder). Soviet Union had the same film cost issue into the 1970s (maybe longer).

 

[GLS]

Green ring Sinaron W (Grandagon-N) 6.8/115
Nikon Copal 1 lens board

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

4x5 Adox CMS 20 II arrived. I can pick up the developer alternative to Adotech IV hunt, after I get a few other projects out of the way!

 

[Ian Grant]

That suggests it's a 6x9 that originally came with a 6x4.5 format mask. Unless you have the mask in, you'd use only the first red window; the second is for half frame.

Usually the masks are for 6x6 with a 6x9 folding camera. Sometimes these are two flaps that fold away for 6x9, and out across the film gate for 6x6.

Ian