Your most recent RF purchase

enomooshiki · Mar 15, 2012

I made a thread, but here it is with a photo.
Picked up a Olympus XA2

Kav · Mar 17, 2012

amsp said:
There's not enough pictures of all the beauties in this thread. With a digital camera in every phone nowadays there's no excuse you lazy bastards.. hehe

Fair enough, here's the new to me Nikonos-V with a 28mm and 35mm lens:

Nikon Nikonos-V by Kav..., on Flickr

amsp · Mar 17, 2012

Kav said:
Fair enough, here's the new to me Nikonos-V with a 28mm and 35mm lens:

Nikon Nikonos-V by Kav..., on Flickr

I love the Nikonos series, are you planning on diving with it?

Peltigera · Mar 17, 2012

A Voigtlander Vitomatic II. I might even like it more than my Vito B!

Kav · Mar 17, 2012

amsp said:
I love the Nikonos series, are you planning on diving with it?

I hope to go diving with it soon. I may be diving in Thailand when I go there in a few months. And if work sends me to Africa again I will go diving there for sure. Otherwise it's my foul Weather camera.

amsp · Mar 17, 2012

Kav said:
I hope to go diving with it soon. I may be diving in Thailand when I go there in a few months. And if work sends me to Africa again I will go diving there for sure. Otherwise it's my foul Weather camera.

Cool, be sure to post the results after you dive with it.

Kav · Mar 17, 2012

amsp said:
Cool, be sure to post the results after you dive with it.

I sure will, I'm running a roll of film through it right now to check shutter speeds

Spicy · Mar 18, 2012

not really RF, but i picked up a rollei 35S and a semi-working olympus XA. the XA's lens is fungused to hell, so it remains to be seen as to whether or not it'll be worth using...

Terry Christian · Mar 18, 2012

pstake: The diopter adjustment is the little lever at the base of the rewind knob, at the far left of the top of the camera.

Fotophreek · Mar 20, 2012

I just procured a nice little Canonet 28 rangefinder. More like a point and shoot in that it only let's you control the aperture and sets the shutter for you. Nonetheless, a nice addition to the family.

Ralph Javins · Mar 22, 2012

Good morning;

Some eek-Bait surfing produced two (2) copies of the 1961 Bell and Howell/Canon Canonet 19 Rangefinder 35mm Camera that arrived here yesterday. One of them was dropped and there is a serious dent in the left end of the top, but that one has the mustly working shutter assembly in the lens; only the slow speeds (1/8th to 1 second) are not working. The second sample is in better cosmetic shape, but the shutter does not move at all. I guess it is time for a CLA.

It was interesting to note how quickly a lot of memories from the early 1960s came back when I flipped the lever on the film advance down, and began to swing the lever on the bottom of the camera with my left thumb to cock the shutter mechanism and move the film transport system.

Oh, yes, one of them still had a roll of Kodacolor-X in it. The case also has Customs inspection stickers from Bermuda and the United States on it. I am wondering if developing the roll in C-22 chemicals will produce photographs of someone's vacation back in the 1960s.

RalphLambrecht · Mar 28, 2012

mamiya 6,usedwith amazing optics.

revdocjim · Mar 29, 2012

RalphLambrecht said:
mamiya 6,usedwith amazing optics.

The newer six with exchangeable lenses or the old folder?

pen s · Mar 29, 2012

Couple of weeks ago I found a Canonet QL17-GIII in a second hand store. The camera is in fine condition and everything works, even the meter when I put a #675 zink air battery in it. When I went to the desk to pay for it they said on one had been able to make it work. No surprise there, they had it set on auto and without a battery the shutter won't fire. Price was $15 so I made out well. It will need the customary light sealing foam replacement so until I get around to that I can't run film through it.

Isa7bela · Mar 31, 2012

Pristine Contax G2 with 45mm. This is my second G2 body in addition to my old trusted G1. Thought for a long time about trying out the Leica M experience, but decided I value the speed of the Contax G system to capture that 'moment' as opposed using manual focus. Very happy Contax G user since I bought G1 brand new....just thought for a bit about the Leica experience...

Peltigera · Apr 4, 2012

Bought a Zeiss Ikon Contessa LKE this week. Paid £1.00 for it. Still on the first froll of film but so far I like it a lot.

Can control both aperture and shutter speed, built-in coupled light meter works well with no need for a battery. Rangefinder is spot on. And no foam light seals to go manky.

Steelman in Texas · Apr 6, 2012

RF Petri

Trying to find a Petri 7s to keep for myself and bought a "Good working 7s, meter and shutter are fine" ... well you know the rest. Still looking to repace the one I learned to shoot film and slides with in the 60's. Old story- Dad, Vietnam, PX... and My Dad still remembers it all.

pstake · Apr 7, 2012

Steelman in Texas said:
Trying to find a Petri 7s to keep for myself and bought a "Good working 7s, meter and shutter are fine" ... well you know the rest. Still looking to repace the one I learned to shoot film and slides with in the 60's. Old story- Dad, Vietnam, PX... and My Dad still remembers it all.

Steelman, take a look here at this Petri 7s. I've seen this ad up for several weeks.

http://omaha.craigslist.org/pho/2892541760.html

I might be able to help a fellow apug'r (and a fellow Texan, incidentally I grew up in Amarillo) and pick up and ship this to you if it's something you're interested in.

ambaker · Apr 7, 2012

I've got a Yashica Electro 35 GS, and a GTN, on the way.

maxwell1295 · Apr 10, 2012

I recently grabbed an Olympus XA from the big auction site. Loving it so far...

Peter de Groot · Apr 10, 2012

I recently discovered the yashica lynx 5000 in my closet. I decided to play around with it. Just need to find a battery for it. Until the I'll carry around a lightmeter. (I got a slide film in there otherwise I would wingball it with the sunny 16 rule...or the cloudy 8 rule)

filmamigo · Apr 10, 2012

A Fuji GS645S, that's on its way from KEH.

I recently sold off my GW690 --- though I loved it in many ways, I did not love that it was meterless. It was also SO large as to be almost cartoonish. I wasn't convinced on the lens either -- it was brutally sharp but the contrast was harsh. Having so few frames per roll of 120 was also tiresome in the field. It felt like I spent half of my time reloading the camera.

I'm hoping the GS645S is a better compromise. Slightly smaller and lighter, with a built in meter. Not sure how the lens will be -- it's still a Fujinon but maybe the 60mm has a different rendering than the 90mm did?

The other advantage is that the largest negative I can print is a 6x6, and I recently added a 645 holder for my enlarger. The 6x9 of the GW690 seemed wasted when I couldn't print it optically.

Ngothien · Apr 18, 2012

I just picked up the FED 3 from ebay and god I love it. I'm surprised I got a good copy

sangetsu · Apr 19, 2012

I got a Konica Hexar AF pretty cheap on the auction site. I found it while browsing aimlessly, so I bid on it. Surprisingly, no one else put it any bids. After I won, I found that the sale had been miscategorized, so I guess no one else saw it. Anyway, the camera arrived in good working shape with it's original case, lens cap, and instructions (in Japanese). I'll take it out this weekend and put some film through it. I also added another black Olympus SP to the herd.

Terry Christian · Apr 19, 2012

I certainly don't have the budget for a Leica, but last month I managed to score from here a FED-2 with two lenses, a Jupiter-8 and an Industar-23M. I'm absolutely loving it, though tracking down a pinhole light leak. In the meantime, I've bought two more lenses from the Bay: a FED 50/3.5 (the collapsible Elmar clone), and an Industar-61 L/D, both in great shape.

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