what waS your last photography related purchase?

[eli griggs]

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[Helios 1984]

500ml of Ilford Rapid Fixer.

I found out I was out of fixer as I was preparing to process a roll : / Bummer

 

[mshchem]

I am a hoarder. No comment. GAS GAS GAS!!!

 

[FriedLouisStudio]

A minty Olympus Pen S half-frame in transit from Japan.



I LOVE shooting my Pen F SLR, and I got great results with a Pen EES-2 decades ago. The Pen S has the same 30mm/2.8 Zuiko lens as the EES-2... but no dead or soon-to-die metering system, just manual speeds and f-stops. (I've been estimating exposure pretty well for nearly 50 years, so that's no problem.) I'm looking forward to keeping it loaded with Double-X as a glovebox or knockaround backup camera.

 

[Sirius Glass]

I am a hoarder. No comment. GAS GAS GAS!!!

GAS is good. I never resist it, as if I could. It led me to MF and LF which would not happened without GAS.

 

[Kino]

Spot meter, focusing cloth, X-Ray film, condenser head for my Beseler 45MX, lens board for my Gunlach Korona Whole Plate camera, red safe light bulbs for developing film by inspection...

Going to make this happen or go bankrupt trying.

 

[Donald Qualls]

red safe light bulbs for developing film by inspection...

Unless you're developing ortho film, you'd be better off with a very dim yellow-green safelight for DBI. Not because the film is less sensitive to this color, but because your eye is more sensitive, so the light can be that much dimmer.

 

[Hassasin]

I guess the two Barracks needed a different companion, the M5. Sadly, does not look like the end of it Especially since got the Heliar 15mm for the then coming MDa, which it did not, and that lens needs a blind Leica.

 

[Kino]

Unless you're developing ortho film, you'd be better off with a very dim yellow-green safelight for DBI. Not because the film is less sensitive to this color, but because your eye is more sensitive, so the light can be that much dimmer.

The bulbs are for X-ray and ortho copy film, but thanks for the tip; I will try that if the red is too hard to use.

 

[lightswitch]

Very cheap 24 frame rolls of 35mm BW and C41 film. Time to practice at home development!

 

[Donald Qualls]

The bulbs are for X-ray and ortho copy film, but thanks for the tip; I will try that if the red is too hard to use.

Well, the rule I remember is that if you can actually see what's happening, your safelight is too bright. The one time I've done DBI was with orthochromatic Verichrome from the 1950s, and I got good results, but even with that it was largely a matter of finding the right mix of averted vision sensitivity and direct vision acuity to determine whether the film was "done" yet.

A correct yellow-green safelight is so dim you have to use averted vision -- the more sensitive cone cells that are few in the central part of your retina -- to see the film at all. Modern fast panchromatic films are just too sensitive to use any more light without risk of fogging.

 

[ant!]

Just received yesterday a Mamiya 6 with the 75mm and 150mm. The seller might have confused it with the 645 when searching from prices, since it was a price I simply couldn't say no to it. If one day I feel the need for the 50mm, I'll likely pay as much or more for it then for this kit. (But then I have already a full Pentax 645n kit if I want wide angle medium format. Not the same though, but let's see). The seller's other items were more realistically (but on the low side of realistic) priced, for a (misnamed 6x6) Pentax 6x7, a Rolleicord, and a bit too high priced KW Pilot Super...

I really have to sort out and sell some stuff... Definitely the Rondinax I thought would become useful, but I just use the Paterson. Maybe the Agfa Ambi Silette with 3 lenses and the Kodak Retina II (011), even though these probably don't sell for much? And a bunch of others I have to think about... And a couple of cameras which would need some fixing, but I don't have the time. Probably more a space thing...

 

[mshchem]

I have 3 Heliopan # 318 bay 60 to 67mm brass adapter rings coming. These are discontinued, which I just discovered. I found a seller in Germany who had some. These are expensive but wonderful, allows the use of multicoated filters on my Zeiss Hasselblad lenses.

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

hodge podge of 120 films...

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

Crap! I forgot that I ordered a brick of Pan F 120! Next photography related purchase will have to be another little freezer...

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

My wife is going to KILL me...
I just bought a Fujinon W 180 f/5.6 for the 8x10. Luckily, her birthday is tomorrow, and I bought her two gifts, and specially ordered a cake from her favourite Japanese pastry shop. That hopefully will soften the blow...

 

[murdockhendrix]

49mm Zomei infrared filter 720nm for the Holga 120Pan, Pentax MX and LX.

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

49mm Zomei infrared filter 720nm for the Holga 120Pan, Pentax MX and LX.

I've been using a 77mm Zomei 720 for my Holga, with a step-up ring (I think it's a 52mm). The ring fits snuggly over the Holga lens. The reason I use such a large filter on the Holga, is that 77mm fits my RB67 lenses and most of my LF lenses. There's a video on my youtube channel

 

[murdockhendrix]

I've been using a 77mm Zomei 720 for my Holga, with a step-up ring (I think it's a 52mm). The ring fits snuggly over the Holga lens. The reason I use such a large filter on the Holga, is that 77mm fits my RB67 lenses and most of my LF lenses. There's a video on my youtube channel

Hi Andrew,

I love your channel, watch everyday you post. Is your Holga the WPC (pinhole)? I have the Holga 120Pan. My lens flange had no threads for a filter but there is a lip just enough for a 46mm to 49mm step-up filter. I chose the 49mm since I have an few Pentax 49mm lenses so it can do double duty.

I see you fitted the 52mm over the lens on your 120Pan. I haven't tried IR film but have used Catlabs X Film 320 with an IR filter.

 

[Roger Thoms]

My wife is going to KILL me...
I just bought a Fujinon W 180 f/5.6 for the 8x10. Luckily, her birthday is tomorrow, and I bought her two gifts, and specially ordered a cake from her favourite Japanese pastry shop. That hopefully will soften the blow...

Hopefully the gifts and cake will work out for you, if not you’ll certainly be missed. Looking forward to a video on shooting with the 180.

Roger

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

Hi Andrew,

I love your channel, watch everyday you post. Is your Holga the WPC (pinhole)? I have the Holga 120Pan. My lens flange had no threads for a filter but there is a lip just enough for a 46mm to 49mm step-up filter. I chose the 49mm since I have an few Pentax 49mm lenses so it can do double duty.

I see you fitted the 52mm over the lens on your 120Pan. I haven't tried IR film but have used Catlabs X Film 320 with an IR filter.

Yes! The CatLABS 320 is IR film! I believe it's Aviphot. I forgot about that film. I have a few rolls in the freezer I really should use up... and I need to get out the the Holga 120 Pan!!

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

Hopefully the gifts and cake will work out for you, if not you’ll certainly be missed. Looking forward to a video on shooting with the 180.

Roger

HAHA hopefully I'll survive!
I will definitely make a video about the lens on 8x10!

 

[VinceInMT]

My wife is going to KILL me...
I just bought a Fujinon W 180 f/5.6 for the 8x10. Luckily, her birthday is tomorrow, and I bought her two gifts, and specially ordered a cake from her favourite Japanese pastry shop. That hopefully will soften the blow...

Wow, and I just bough an old bag of Dektol, some fixer, and an expired pack of paper for $5 and my wife didn’t care. Of course, a few weeks a go she brought home a 2024 Tesla Model Y so I guess I have some wiggle room.

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

Wow, and I just bough an old bag of Dektol, some fixer, and an expired pack of paper for $5 and my wife didn’t care. Of course, a few weeks a go she brought home a 2024 Tesla Model Y so I guess I have some wiggle room.

I would say that you've got years of wiggle room there!

 

[Sirius Glass]

I would say that you've got years of wiggle room there!

Especially after she adds in the cost and installation of the charging station.