what waS your last photography related purchase?

[Mal Paso]

It's a sustainable hardwood, very similar to Mahogany in all its characteristics. Mahogany like Ivory is on the CITES prohibited list for International trade. A friend sold some British book-form plate holders to someone in the US on eBay last year, because of the Mahogany description they were seized by US customs, despite being pre-WW2, and long before any ban.

I buy what is called Mahogany, but other suppliers say "Mahogany/Sapele". I have genuine Mahogany from a friend's timber yard, but as Fred Gadolfi says in a video there are various grades, he was on a double-decker London bus to the wood yard. Low grade Mahogany is similar to cheap box wood, and this is what Graflex and other manufacturers used when wood work was covered by leather or imitation leather.

What really matters is I can match what's sold as Sapele/Mahogany to Victorian/Edwardian cameras, in terms of colour and wood grain, I do a lot of restoration work. I experiment when making my own lens boards.
The funky one at the front is actually plywood, ebonised with Iron Acetate, and some help with Tannin from billing up old tea bags and applying to the wood surface.


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Many years ago a friend worked in a boatyard carefully disassembling new Mahogany bookcases for the lumber to repair boats. Exporting countries would only allow finished products to leave the country so, special bookcases.

Nice job and description.

Wood is sustainable with a little care. One cool thing about large format is making cameras and parts. Nice to see your project.

 

[F4U]

Nobody ever did fix that waS in all these years.

 

[Sanug]

I bought some Wolfen NP100. Could not resist because of the summer sale discount.

I developed the first roll with excellent results (Adox XT-3, 1+2, 12 Min.). The low side: There are no frame numbers.

 

[dcy]

I bought some Wolfen NP100. Could not resist because of the summer sale discount.

How much did it cost? Here in the states official-branded Wolfen NP 100 is not cheap and it's out of stock, but you can buy the rebrand "AristaPan 100" for $4/roll.

 

[cjbecker]

Does paying after an estimate on a shutter repair / Cla till gwo (Good working order) on a Nikon f5 count?

Had to learn what gwo stood for today.

No one really wanted anything to do with a F5, talked to camera service co in Atlanta and they said no problem. We will see.

 

[GregY]

A very sweet absolutely clean chrome Leitz SLOOZ 28mm viewfinder for my new lllg.

 

[Sirius Glass]

You lose stuff when you need it, then find said lost stuff when you dont

When one looses things, they will find it in the last place that they look.

 

[JensH]

When one looses things, they will find it in the last place that they look.

True, just true.

 

[BMbikerider]

A replacement head for my LPL7700 enlarger, the old one had just given up the struggle for life. £90 was quite a good price for a used but boxed unmarked piece of equipment. Loads cheaper than a complete enlarger.

 

[Kino]

5 lbs. of Sodium Sulfite from Artcraft Chemicals.

 

[ivan35mm]

Picked up a Industar-55U 140mm f4.5 (appears to be a Tessar design, originally used in a 9x12 "Bielorus-2" enlarger).

Good condition, better price. Hoping to use it with my 6x9 view camera. We'll see

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

Potassium Hydroxide...

 

[Tel]

5 boxes of 4x5 Portra 160: my good deed for the day.

 

[MCB18]

250g hydroquinone
50g Phenidone A
1 lb sodium carbonate

Making some H&W control.

I need to find a place to get 100 mL bottles though…

 

[MattKing]

250g hydroquinone
50g Phenidone A
1 lb sodium carbonate

Making some H&W control.

I need to find a place to get 100 mL bottles though…

Check with your local pharmacist.

 

[MCB18]

Check with your local pharmacist.

I also just realized that I need a 0.01g scale…

 

[Don_ih]

I also just realized that I need a 0.01g scale…

If you have glycol, make a stock solution of 1% or 2% phenidone. Calculate your 0.01g from that. A dropper is good. From what I can tell, you can have too little phenidone but going over a bit doesn't hurt.

 

[Donald Qualls]

I also just realized that I need a 0.01g scale…

I have two kitchen scales that read in 0.1g (up to 500 g, then 1 g up to a couple kg); they run on 9V battery with good life and cost about $20 on Amazon. I bought the first for making coffee; after using it a few times, I bought the second for my darkroom.

 

[MCB18]

I have two kitchen scales that read in 0.1g (up to 500 g, then 1 g up to a couple kg); they run on 9V battery with good life and cost about $20 on Amazon. I bought the first for making coffee; after using it a few times, I bought the second for my darkroom.

Unfortunately not precise enough for me. I have one on the way that should hopefully work.

 

[illawarraflametree]

Walked into a film shop and saw that they were selling portra cheaper than gold. I think you could make a pretty educated guess as to what I bought when I was there

 

[Donald Qualls]

Unfortunately not precise enough for me. I have one on the way that should hopefully work.

It's been fine for me. I almost never need to weigh more than 500g of chemical at once, and 0.1g is plenty precise. The only time I'd want more precision is for phenidone, and I'm not afraid to make a 2% stock solution for that.

 

[What About Bob]

Litmus paper from A2Z Science and Learning Store in town.

 

[Rayt]

A 500ml bottle of Adox Rodinal from Freestyle. They offered free shipping with orders over $100 so I threw in a bunch of Arista film.

 

[AnselMortensen]

3 bottles of Rodinal,
3 bottles of TF-5
3 bottles of Arista Hypo Wash Aid
From Freestyle...
I'm set for a while.

 

[ivan35mm]

hugo meyer doppel plasmat 15cm f4 lens