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Thanks! I'm slowly making a decent medium format system.
TheFlyingCamera
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5 rolls of FP4+ 120.
Some 4x5-inch film holders, in really nice condition, and packed in padded cases of three. Supposed to help get me out on the hills with the camera; did it heck.
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This is one of the reasons that golf shoes with traction aids that are much more like small cleats are much more common now.
That, and the fact that the spikes are really rough on the greens!
I bought the Yaktrax Diamond Grip traction aid which did a great job keeping my rear end, elbows, shoulders and head the appropriate distance above the ground. They use sharp pointed rollers for traction.
Nikon HB-1 from Keh, for my $20 Nikon 35-135 AF lens. This will be my new car camera lens that I will pair with a nice clean N8008s that I got off Craigslist a few years back. This will replace the Nikon N70 that’s my current car camera.
Roger
Roger
I just returned from Menards, bought a beautiful nicely made brass garden hose end. Made up a supply hose for my new custom print washer. Best 5 bucks I've spent in a while.
10 rolls Kodak Gold 200 35mm 36 exp.
5 rolls Kentmere 400 35mm 24 exp.
5 rolls Kentmere 400 35mm 24 exp.
8KW of strobe power packs, 7 flash heads, some light stands and soft boxes. Less expensive than 2 400 WS monolights. f128? LOL
I don't see how the "soft spikes" (which are just rubber buttons and barely protrude from the sole surface) are any better than good cross trainers for a driver swing -- and spikes don't damage the green if the player picks his feet up when he walks...
It Will need a 75mm-80mm lens.
A couple days ago I got 4 rolls of Fujichrome Provia 400X in 120
Today I just got a "FR Special Adjustable Roll Film Developing Tank Model 2", which can develop film from 35mm up to 616/116 film (aka 70mm) on evilbay for ~$26
Today I just got a "FR Special Adjustable Roll Film Developing Tank Model 2", which can develop film from 35mm up to 616/116 film (aka 70mm) on evilbay for ~$26
glas stirring rods for the darkroom for mixing chemicals.
3 FP4+ 120 films, or so I thought. One day after receiving them, I realised that it's 1 FP4+ and 2 Delta 100. Oh well, at least they're more expensive, I didn't lose any money 
I just picked up a Seagull 35-70mm f3.5/4.9 [MIDDLE] -- at GOODWILL, like new in the box. I had thought my Vivitar (Komine) 35-70mm f2.8/3.8
was small, but the Seagull is as small as a 50mm lens. On the right is a Kalimar 35-70mm f3.5/4.5.
CineStill Film Cs41 Powder Developing Kit
5 rolls Kodak Professional Gold 200 120 film
5 rolls Kodak Professional Gold 200 120 film
Radio controlled switch for my overhead lighting for the entire darkroom. I put the remote on the wall near my main printing sink. Now I can turn everything on/off with my elbow when my hands are wet. The switch cost close to 50 bucks, will handle 1200W load.
Vivitar 283 for cost of shipping.
Non-working but likely just a wiring issue that just needs a look-see and solder.
Thrifting for point and shoots, I bought a fairly medium-large rolling cutting disk paper, etc cutter with double rail supports.
Non-working but likely just a wiring issue that just needs a look-see and solder.
Thrifting for point and shoots, I bought a fairly medium-large rolling cutting disk paper, etc cutter with double rail supports.
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A DP-1 meter from eBay…!
Perhaps not the very latest expenditure (having won an e-bay auction since) but I came across a little lens at the car boot sale yesterday. It was in a tray with various plumbing fittings that looked vaguely similar.
The seller told me it was 50p, so I came away with a FED industar 10, that needs a little clean, but is otherwise fully functional.
This rangefinder 50mm f/3.5 lens is a russian clone of the Leica Elmar, With 'as new' copies currently asking £75 on e-bay
A quick wipe over of the outside today, has gone a long way to clean up my bargain. I can now confirm there is no issue with fungus, but I think I'll still want to open it up & give it a proper clean.
The seller told me it was 50p, so I came away with a FED industar 10, that needs a little clean, but is otherwise fully functional.
This rangefinder 50mm f/3.5 lens is a russian clone of the Leica Elmar, With 'as new' copies currently asking £75 on e-bay
A quick wipe over of the outside today, has gone a long way to clean up my bargain. I can now confirm there is no issue with fungus, but I think I'll still want to open it up & give it a proper clean.
Ordered 10 films Fomapan 100, bottle of Fixer, 1 liter of PQ universal paper developer and 1 box of 50 papers 20x30cm Fomaspeed.
Two mugs for me and one for a friend:
I shoot people!
[insert photo of favorite camera here]
Sometimes I cut off people's heads!
[insert photo of favorite camera here]
Sometimes I cut off people's heads!
Asahi Tele-Takumar 200mm f5.6 lens. I know, I know, not a lens that people think of first when they dream of beautiful negatives and high quality prints. Likely they don't think of it at all. But in this case there is some history that indicates there is at least a chance.
Years and years ago when I bought my first Pentax (a K1000 of course) from a pawn shop in Reno Nevada, the camera came with an SMC M 50mm f2 lens (what else) and a Tele-Takumar 200mm f/5.6 telephoto complete with the prerequisite Pentax M42 adapter. Now I was very, very, very poor at the time so these were my only lenses for a very long time. The 50/2 was my go to lens and the Tele-Takumar was only used when I absolutely could not walk closer to what I wanted to photograph. Needless to say, because I needed to be planning to use it in order to have everything I needed (adaptor, tripod, shutter release) the lens did not get used very often. Because of that f5.6 wide open aperture it was also a tad hard to focus. Eventually I traded it off at another pawn shop for a Vivitar zoom that did not get a lot of use either, but was easier to focus and did not require you to pre-set the aperture.
You would think that would have been the end of it...but it wasn't. I eventually started enlarging and printing some of my negatives and I found the the negatives from that unloved Takumar telephoto were actually very, very good. Great color and very sharp. They were so good in fact that I printed just about all of the few negatives I had from that lens. Of course by the time I figured this out I had traded it off long ago. I have no doubt that the quality of those old negatives were certainly due to the fact that the tripod and shutter release cable came our every time I used the lens, and of course I spent a lot of extra time making sure I was happy with the setup before I ever pulled the trigger on that shutter.
Long story short, I recently ran across another 200mm Tele-Takumar on everyone's favorite auction site and I bought it. Now I hope that the negatives from this lens are equal to the negatives from the previous one from so many years ago. I still own that same K1000 and I still own that old Pentax M42 to K-mount adaptor.
I am hoping that the same magic repeats itself.
Years and years ago when I bought my first Pentax (a K1000 of course) from a pawn shop in Reno Nevada, the camera came with an SMC M 50mm f2 lens (what else) and a Tele-Takumar 200mm f/5.6 telephoto complete with the prerequisite Pentax M42 adapter. Now I was very, very, very poor at the time so these were my only lenses for a very long time. The 50/2 was my go to lens and the Tele-Takumar was only used when I absolutely could not walk closer to what I wanted to photograph. Needless to say, because I needed to be planning to use it in order to have everything I needed (adaptor, tripod, shutter release) the lens did not get used very often. Because of that f5.6 wide open aperture it was also a tad hard to focus. Eventually I traded it off at another pawn shop for a Vivitar zoom that did not get a lot of use either, but was easier to focus and did not require you to pre-set the aperture.
You would think that would have been the end of it...but it wasn't. I eventually started enlarging and printing some of my negatives and I found the the negatives from that unloved Takumar telephoto were actually very, very good. Great color and very sharp. They were so good in fact that I printed just about all of the few negatives I had from that lens. Of course by the time I figured this out I had traded it off long ago. I have no doubt that the quality of those old negatives were certainly due to the fact that the tripod and shutter release cable came our every time I used the lens, and of course I spent a lot of extra time making sure I was happy with the setup before I ever pulled the trigger on that shutter.
Long story short, I recently ran across another 200mm Tele-Takumar on everyone's favorite auction site and I bought it. Now I hope that the negatives from this lens are equal to the negatives from the previous one from so many years ago. I still own that same K1000 and I still own that old Pentax M42 to K-mount adaptor.
I am hoping that the same magic repeats itself.
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