Look what came in the mail

Just got the round hood for my Zeiss 25 & 28. Kudos to popflash for getting it here so fast- and being so easy to deal with via phone when the website ordering was down the other day. Come to think of it all the sponsors here I've dealt with before have been fantastic- shouldn't be surprised at all.
 
LTM Summarit for the recently added IIIf. Surprisingly - NO HAZE! Just a couple bubbles inside and the expected cleaning marks. I'm on my first roll with it - Lucky 100.

- John
 
589794574_19e4efea1f_o.jpg

Needless to say, I cant wait to break in this little badboy.
 
3-5cm.jpg
A 1937 uncoated Leica 3.5cm Elmar (#400249), for "Eva". Clear optics, I can't see any surface scratches.
Can't wait for the weekend to finish the roll of APX100 on this lens. 😀
 
Today the postie came with a bulk loader a 28mm canon fd lens and this Mamiya 4b in extreamly good condition 😀 I can find very little signs of use.
 
Last edited:
After some hesitation I put her here (not in C&C) as it's late to ask for an other coffee...

nemjo
 

Attachments

  • R0010231.JPG
    R0010231.JPG
    80.9 KB · Views: 0
Postman rang twice today.

Postman rang twice today.

First item was a yellow push-on filter for my I-22 from Yuri at Fedke. Very nice.

The second was a FED 2 from evilbay said to be from an estate storage. The camera looks and sounds very good and I'll get some shots this weekend.
In the FED was an old roll of Kodak Kodacolor II film. I rushed down to wallyworld for processing but, alas, the film was blank. Someday, maybe, I'll get lucky and get an old camera from HCB's estate storage. Yeah, right.
 
Hubba hubba, my GA645 (one of my two 'back to film' purchases) showed up today! It was sold as 'never used' and it certainly seems that way. 🙂 Any idea how I can figure out the manufacturing date? As expected the supplied batteries were dead but I had suspected as much and had a set ready...

Also, since it is a virgin camera, I have to find the right moment for that first shot... maybe some wine, candle light, a little cheese and crackers...
 
Last edited:
cmedin said:
Hubba hubba, my GA645 (one of my two 'back to film' purchases) showed up today! It was sold as 'never used' and it certainly seems that way. 🙂...
Click to expand...

You're not going to use that collectors item are you?😱

(just kidding 😀 use it up!)
 
sepiareverb said:
You're not going to use that collectors item are you?😱

(just kidding 😀 use it up!)
Click to expand...

I'm sure I've already ruined the value by breaking the seal on the batteries to see if they were still ok... 😀

Since the GA645i came out in 1997, does this mean that I might be in possession of something over a decade old? Did production for the non-i model cease then?

Either way, it seems to function flawlessly... I near had a techno-gasm just fiddling with the film loading stuff; the thing is just so beautifully designed and everything seems so precise and solid.

Can't wait to take actual PICTURES with it.😛
 
I finally got my Olympus OM-1 that was described as having a broken self-timer. It turned out that the user just didn't know how to use it and the OM-1 turned out to be the MD-version. Smooth black with minor brassing, oh how lovely it is. There's a little prism rot on the lower side and I'm thinking about a CLA but don't know yet. Need to get a battery first but I think the speeds are right. And it's lovely quiet somehow compared to my OM-2. The camera's a bit stiff because it looks like it hasn't been used for a long time but I think that some exercise will smoothen it out. 🙂

The lenses that came with it are superb! Zuiko 28 3.5, 85 2.0 and 50 1.8. All are the later (supposedly multicoated ones) silver-nose types. They're so smooth and they all have had filters on them so they're very clean. (Oh! and I got a extension ring I suppose, it has the number 7 on it. Can someone help me on how to use it correctly?)
 
most of my film has arrived, all but the 10 rolls of the ilford sfx.

the fridge now holds my 50 rolls of apx 100 and 50 rolls of hp5.

my domke bag has only been mailed today, 8 days after i was told it had been mailed already!!

joe
 
Juhor: Beautiful! The extension tube provides 7mm of extension. If it is the Auto version, you will have wide open metering. If not, then you will use stop down metering. This will provide closer focus for any of the lenses you have, i.e. macro work, but not 1:1.

The silver nose lenses were the earlier versions of the lenses. Some are single coated, some are multi-coated. Many have their own special character, esp. the 50/1.8 and I would guess the 28/3.5 (mine is multicoated), so while some people say the later non-silver nose are "better", it's a matter of how you define better.

Other great silver nose lenses are the 35/2.8 and 100/2.8.
 
Joe- my recent ebay fiasco was shipped 40 days after I was told it was. Managed to wend it's way from Australia to Vermont in only 6 days or so.

Enjoy that fridge full of film!

And Keith- Yet another empty box??😀
 
Got my Bessa-L yesterday. Just waiting for the Skopar to arrive now and I'll be shooting--hopefully this weekend! The Bessa is a really pretty little lightweight beast, can't wait to start using it.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom