What have you just BOUGHT?

[oldhaven]

Very late serial # Pentax K-5 IIs with 4510 shutter clicks. Also like new Pentax DA21 limited lens to go with it, and a Pentax K to M42 adapter to allow me to use some of my vintage Mamiya and Soviet lenses. While I will still be using the vintage cameras and lenses I own, it will be nice to experiment a bit with digital and immediate results.
This should be a fun year and this will allow me to ignore the news a bit.

 

[mrtoml]

A Lee wide angle 82mm filter ring for the Lee 100 system so I can use my filters with my Fuji GF 20-35mm lens. I am hoping there will be no vignetting...

 

[herr_zett]

Leica Super-Angulon-R 4/21mm for my R8.

 

[girdwoodINC]

Magnum Chronicles (postcard one, the one with the print was too rich for this time of the month in January)

 

[Mongo Park]

Leitz Elmar-C 90mm f4 and a Contax RTS II both at a camera fair in Hertfordshire, UK.

 

[Darinwc]

I bought an as-is parts body Canon 7 for peanuts. I was able to bring it back to life. Everything seems to work now even the meter. I've had one before but my esoteric inclinations lead me elsewhere.
This is a beautiful and well engineered camera. It does not get nearly the praise it should.

 

[rhl-oregon]

Contax RTS & 45 2.8 pancake
Yashica 44 (sentimental purchase: it was my first camera, bought in London 1973).

 

[herr_zett]

Oh, and a Kodak Retina IB.

 

[davidswiss]

Two Jupiter -11 135mm f4. Should be picking them up next week.

 

[Vince Lupo]

Contax RTS & 45 2.8 pancake
Yashica 44 (sentimental purchase: it was my first camera, bought in London 1973).

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You can run 35mm film through that Yashica. I have yet to do it in mine but have made the adaptations. Hopefully soon!

 

[caila77]

 

[rhl-oregon]

You can run 35mm film through that Yashica. I have yet to do it in mine but have made the adaptations. Hopefully soon!

Keep us posted on your adaptation. I’ll check out YouTube too. I’ve also checked B&H, Freestyle, and Blue Moon for 127 emulsions. Rera 400 BW is $14, comparable to buying 35mm Kodak Ultra at my handy Walgreens; add $10 to scan at Nice Film Club, and that’s affordable for a camera I last used regularly in the 1970s.

 

[Godfrey]

Book: "Just Walking" by Steven Speidel ... 🙂

 

[Leon C]

Keep us posted on your adaptation. I’ll check out YouTube too. I’ve also checked B&H, Freestyle, and Blue Moon for 127 emulsions. Rera 400 BW is $14, comparable to buying 35mm Kodak Ultra at my handy Walgreens; add $10 to scan at Nice Film Club, and that’s affordable for a camera I last used regularly in the 1970s.

Not sure if you've seen these but maybe an option if you are going to use it a lot, there are DIY ones around but this is nicely done.

Made: FCK127: make your own 127 film

DIY: 120-to-127 Film Slitter by rodsmith

 

[KoNickon]

Keep us posted on your adaptation. I’ll check out YouTube too. I’ve also checked B&H, Freestyle, and Blue Moon for 127 emulsions. Rera 400 BW is $14, comparable to buying 35mm Kodak Ultra at my handy Walgreens; add $10 to scan at Nice Film Club, and that’s affordable for a camera I last used regularly in the 1970s.

Amazon has the Shanghai GP3 in 127 for less than $60 for five rolls, in case you don't mind giving them money. 🙂

 

[herr_zett]

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Here‘s my new IB mentioned in an earlier post.

 

[herr_zett]

This time a few sheets of Ilford MGFB.

 

[Godfrey]

Here‘s my new IB mentioned in an earlier post.
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Very pretty!
Interesting how the Retina RF naming goes. That "IB" looks like it has the features of the "IIIc" but with the f/2.8 version of the lens instead of the f/2, and the larger viewfinder optics of the capital letter series.

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[herr_zett]

Thanks. Don‘t know about the nomenclatura, but the IB is essentially a iiic/C without the rangefinder. Its finder only shows the frame for the 50mm lens.

 

[Godfrey]

Yes, the IB is scale focus rather than RF.
Somewhere there must exist a good book on the Kodak Retina RF series cameras...

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