what waS your last photography related purchase?

[KerrKid]

An Asahi Pentax Spotmatic SPII with 50mm f1.4 Super-Multi-Coated Takumar lens and a spare Honeywell Pentax SPII parts body.

Also, a new old Pentax SV from Eric Hendrickson.

 

[Roger Thoms]

Nikkor AF 35-135mm f3.5-4.5. Nice clean example off eBay, just need to find a hood for it. I'm thinking this will replace the 35-70 zoom for my “car camera” I have been photographing a lot of cars and the 35-135 will do a of keeping me out of the street. Might even switch out the Nikon N70 for a N8008s, or is this getting too “high dollar” for a car camera?

I also picked up a mint Nikkor 85mm f1.4 ais lens, which should be fun.

Roger

 

[AnselMortensen]

I also picked up a mint Nikkor 85mm f1.4 ais lens, which should be fun.

Roger

Fun indeed...a beautiful lens!
I love mine...and it's a sight to behold on my F3HP/MD-4.

 

[Peter Schrager]

Renaissance Wax for salt prints. Nice drop in dark tones but stinky...hope that off-gasses away!

Use beeswax and lavender oil..its what the Osterman team taught me to use

 

[MurrayMinchin]

Use beeswax and lavender oil..its what the Osterman team taught me to use

Just might give that a whirl, thanks.

 

[George Mann]

A minty Nikon D2x with 13K actuations + a Nikkor 24mm F2.8 AF-D and hood.

 

[GLS]

A near mint, boxed 1990 copy of the Carl Zeiss CF Sonnar 5.6/250 Superachromat.

An extremely extravagant purchase, but I have dreamed of owning this lens ever since first getting my 501CM. Looking again recently at Christopher Burkett's incredible work with it, then seeing a reasonable deal on the above from Japan, finally pushed me over the edge.

 

[jay moussy]

An off-brand cable release for my N90s.

 

[GLS]

100 sheets of 4x5 Acros 100 (expired 2016). One of my favourite films in 120, but never had the chance to use it in large format before, so quite chuffed to be acquiring a decent stash (and for a good price too).

 

[MTGseattle]

This craziness

 

[Kino]

This for my aching feet! Harbor Freight shop stool with adjustable back. Seat padding is not the greatest, but it has a hydraulic cylinder like an office chair and a 275 lb. weight capacity.

 

[Sirius Glass]

This for my aching feet! Harbor Freight shop stool with adjustable back. Seat padding is not the greatest, but it has a hydraulic cylinder like an office chair and a 275 lb. weight capacity.

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With the lights out do you still need sunglasses to keep your retinas from burning with the glow?

 

[Kino]

With the lights out do you still need sunglasses to keep your retinas from burning with the glow?

It was the only color left! I wanted the black one...

 

[Sirius Glass]

It was the only color left! I wanted the black one...

Does it look black when the lights are out?

 

[Kino]

Does it look black when the lights are out?

I don't see it at all when the lights are out...

 

[Donald Qualls]

I don't see it at all when the lights are out...

Well, at least it isn't luminescent, then.

 

[Roger Thoms]

Fun indeed...a beautiful lens!
I love mine...and it's a sight to behold on my F3HP/MD-4.

100 sheets of 4x5 Acros 100 (expired 2016). One of my favourite films in 120, but never had the chance to use it in large format before, so quite chuffed to be acquiring a decent stash (and for a good price too).

100 Sheets, nice score, have fun with it.

Roger

 

[GLS]

100 Sheets, nice score, have fun with it.

Roger

Thanks. I had to resist the urge to buy all 200 sheets on offer; my film fridge is bulging already!

 

[eli griggs]

$20us for a parts XA.

 

[murdockhendrix]

YaeCCC Magnetic Stirrer Hotplate and a Zeiss Ikon Box Tengor 54/2 in (to me) remarkable shape.

 

[eli griggs]

YaeCCC Magnetic Stirrer Hotplate and a Zeiss Ikon Box Tengor 54/2 in (to me) remarkable shape.

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This is a nice camera shot; let us know how it rendered light.

 

[Kino]

Finally found a good condition copy of Grant Haist's, "Monobath Manual".

 

[Cholentpot]

I just got a bulk roll of 127. Now I have to put my Yashica 44 back together and cut up some 127 backing paper.

 

[AnselMortensen]

A working Nikon N90s body.
A 105mm DC AF-Nikkor.

 

[Roger Thoms]

A working Nikon N90s body.
A 105mm DC AF-Nikkor.

It would be cool to see some images from the 105 DC.

Roger