G.A.S. and quarantine...

[jsrockit]

For those of you stuck in quarantine, what gear are you GASing over? I find I’m looking at gear a bit more these days since I can’t get out (Chile - Mandatory Quarantine). I can only photograph so much in and around my apartment. The Fujifilm GFX-50R with 50mm 3.5 is the object of my desire. How about you?

P.S. If this thread offends you, please move on and do not post.

 

[shawn]

For those of you stuck in quarantine, what gear are you GASing over? I find I’m looking at gear a bit more these days since I can’t get out (Chile - Mandatory Quarantine). I can only photograph so much in and around my apartment. The Fujifilm GFX-50R with 50mm 3.5 is the object of my desire. How about you?

P.S. If this thread offends you, please move on and do not post.

A month or two ago that combo was $4k at B&H. The body is currently on special but the lens is not. Would love one of them someday.

The GAS that got me was a M3.

Shawn

 

[p.giannakis]

I have been eyeing an Leica RE which is s quite cheap but no lens attached so I am wondering whether i should or not. Then I started looking at an F3. Now I am just trying to stay away from GAS related threads. 🙂

 

[CharlesDAMorgan]

Despite being able to get out and about I continue to De-gas (which means keeping up with prices and availability), but keep looking for accessories like hoods and filters for the stuff I want to keep like my Leica Ms. So, a hood for my soon to arrive 8 element replica etc.

That, and stuff for my Exakta - if the supplying dealer gets it fixed.

 

[David Hughes]

IT's also entertaining to look and work out the dearest outfit and the cheapest on ebay (sold and unsold). Well, um, it keeps me amused.


Regards, David

 

[aizan]

Until two two days ago, the Light Lens Lab replica!

That leaves me waiting for a couple things. One, the Panasonic GX10 to see if it’s good for vlogging. Two, the rumored Canon RF 50/1.8 and the new EOS R5.

My non-GAS plans are to get several cameras repaired, an MR-9 battery adapter, and a Really Right Stuff TQB-64 tripod bag for my new Tiltall.

 

[Ko.Fe.]

My wife and I are in essential service. But I have no interest to wonder on the streets for photography until C is over.
Been most of the time at home (we are only allowed one week per month on site during this situation) I realized how good auto focusing focusing is still important. So, as soon as my last to try Cron was sold and delivered, I ordered Canon RP. Trying to get Canon EF to R 99USD, 129CAD adapter now. Looks like they are sold out.

 

[Mark C]

Circumstances are really driving that for me. I'm mostly shooting Rollei and Pentacon 6 but trying to find something to shoot square for social media on the much cheaper 35mm film. Square format 35mm cameras are out the, but I sure haven't worked it out yet. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know - just crop, but I seem incapable of not filling the frame. I never got magazine covers because of that "bad" habit.

Sure I've got digi cameras that do that, but that is just way too easy.

So anyway something to GAS about to pass the time.

 

[shawn]

Circumstances are really driving that for me. I'm mostly shooting Rollei and Pentacon 6 but trying to find something to shoot square for social media on the much cheaper 35mm film. Square format 35mm cameras are out the, but I sure haven't worked it out yet. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know - just crop, but I seem incapable of not filling the frame. I never got magazine covers because of that "bad" habit.

Sure I've got digi cameras that do that, but that is just way too easy.

So anyway something to GAS about to pass the time.

Zeiss Tenax II, square format (50 shots per roll), RF and life size viewfinder.

These are with the 40mm sonnar...

Lens needs to be cleaned but I haven't tried taking it apart yet.

Shawn

 

[Prest_400]

Fujifilm GFX-50R with 50mm 3.5 is the object of my desire. How about you?

One of those would go along well with the Fuji GW690 "Texas Leica" that I have. I saw a post today praising the GFX High ISO.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CDDHUDRHiqh/
I take a look at the price tag and say, no! (at least for now)


I luckily live in a country that has been taking the pandemic measures quite loosely and never issued any lockdown or severe quarantine requirements. So I can actually go out, shoot, into the camera club darkroom and process, etc.

I have bought quite a bit of film last month 😀 Which I haven't really shot much, if I'm not shooting that much, how do I justify getting new toys?

That doesn't preclude trying to engage in smaller GAS. I think a 50mm f1.7 would be useful for my Pentax MX in the dark of winter. For digital, a faster m43 prime, 20mm, PL 15mm 1.7 or PL 25mm 1.4
And perhaps a phone with good to great photo capabilities. I have an iPhone 6 which at 5 and a half years old, is seen as ancient. I hope it still can go along for a while. Jokes aside, the phone is the camera that gets used the most.

Winter is slowly approaching, and at 59 degrees north latitude, that will mean quarantine-like life. Ugh

 

[Range-rover]

Yes John, I been fighting back and at this time I'm looking for lenses, I have my
eye's on a Voigtlander 50mm f2.5 the one that looks like a 35mm f2 Summicron
Version 1 and a few other things alway's pop up. :bang:

 

[jsrockit]

A month or two ago that combo was $4k at B&H. The body is currently on special but the lens is not. Would love one of them someday.

Yeah, I know... but it’s still $4000 plus tax. Also, I live in Chile now so I have to buy when I’m traveling to the US. That’s not happening anytime soon due to Covid. If I was in nyc still... I’d have bought it long ago. I’ll survive without it. It’ll only get cheaper. 🙂

 

[jsrockit]

One of those would go along well with the Fuji GW690 "Texas Leica" that I have. I saw a post today praising the GFX High ISO.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CDDHUDRHiqh/
I take a look at the price tag and say, no! (at least for now)

Ah, I follow that guy... I was curious as to what he used. Thanks.

 

[Mark C]

Zeiss Tenax II, square format (50 shots per roll), RF and life size viewfinder.

...
Lens needs to be cleaned but I haven't tried taking it apart yet.

Shawn

Very nice. I'd heard of those, but never seen one. Standard cassettes?

I've also been looking at later Robot cameras, but there just don't seem to be all that many in the US.

 

[shawn]

Yeah, I know... but it’s still $4000 plus tax. Also, I live in Chile now so I have to buy when I’m traveling to the US. That’s not happening anytime soon due to Covid. If I was in nyc still... I’d have bought it long ago. I’ll survive without it. It’ll only get cheaper. 🙂

Very true, esp. if a newer model comes out.

Shawn

 

[shawn]

Very nice. I'd heard of those, but never seen one. Standard cassettes?


I've also been looking at later Robot cameras, but there just don't seem to be all that many in the US.

Yes, standard cassettes in the Zeiss. They also had another called the Taxona that is square format.

I think there are a few other companies that made square format 35mm but maybe used agfa cassettes?

Shawn

 

[AlwaysOnAuto]

Much to my wife's chagrin, I surf the Goodwill site daily in the morning over my cereal. I've taken to starting an email to myself where I'll copy the url of interesting camera's and lenses, or other 'stuff' I find. Once I go thru all the categories I'm interested in, I email the list.
Lately it's been a lot of Nikon's, both camera's and lenses. For some reason I've this insane desire for a really nice F2 or FM2, even though I don't shoot film. I have bought camera's just to get the lens on them, so that plays into it too. Just yesterday they had a really nice M3 w/Summilux 50 V1 on it. Nearly the twin of mine. It went for less than I would have bid, if I'd been bidding.
Ahh, what could have been...

 

[Mark C]

Yes, standard cassettes in the Zeiss. They also had another called the Taxona that is square format.

I think there are a few other companies that made square format 35mm but maybe used agfa cassettes?

Shawn

Thanks. I'm finding that "rapid" is often the key word. Apparently, the shorter pull of square format was originally largely to make advance faster. Then Agfa Rapid became a competitor for 126 Instamatic film. I haven't figured out what manual cameras are available for that, but the loading sounds like a pia anyway. I'm still not clear on the Robot cassettes either.

Still a lot to learn, but a lot of time to learn it🙂

 

[xavyr]

Much to my wife's chagrin, I surf the Goodwill site daily in the morning over my cereal.

you, too? ah, Goodwill 😉

 

[Phil_F_NM]

For sure. I've been scouring goodwill multiple times a day, every day for months. Lately, I've been buying typewriters for pennies. I fix them up and I've sold a few, with a few more already spoken for. I've also gotten a few little photographic bits and pieces here and there but most of the stuff off note on goodwill sells for more than on ebay or even retail through a shop. It's insane what some cameras have sold for on there, sight unseen, not tested and not guaranteed to work. Once in a while there are some good deals on photo stuff but these daays I'm sticking to typewriters and old transistor radios.
Phil Forrest