What Did Santa Bring You This Year? ~ Christmas 2010

[mathomas]

I was bad, so Santa brought me an SLR:

I'll try to be better next year.

 

[hteasley]

I got a couple pair warm socks, and a IIIf.

One of those was me, a week or so ago.

 

[Roberto V.]

Hasselblad SWC/M with A24 back which will arrive on Jan. 10, and my Artisan & Artist leather strap arrived on Christmas eve. Suspiciously, 2 grand went missing from my paypal account around the same time 😕
It was funny because the strap arrived at my aunt's p.o. box in USA, so she wrapped it up and gave it to me, before she gave me her real gift (bottle of Burberry London) 😀. Also got clothes from the family.

 

[filmfan]

Ricoh GR-D III, 3 foot long light table, and an external hard drive for all those new digital files. I also bought my parents some photo books that I may be able to take a look at as well next time I visit them ;-)

 

[LKeithR]

WTF, you guys ask for permission to buy camera gear?????
don't you know it's easier to apologize later than to ask for permission?

You're obviously not married to our wives.

Actually didn't get much in the way of photo gear for Christmas--few trinkets, that's about it; but my significant other is pretty tolerant of habit throughout the entire year so I do OK. I picked up a very nice looking Yashica MG-1 two days before Christmas and grabbed a Minolta 7s a couple days before that. Real film rangefinders! Now I can be a legitimate visitor to this site...

 

[leica M2 fan]

I got just one thing, not too big a deal but oh so nice. For my Nikon FM3A I got a Nikon -2 diopter VF ring and oh what a revelation now. When I look thru the VF I see "everything". I don't know if it's my imagination but it actually seems to magnify the image! Not only on the Nikons but it fits perfectly on my Bessa R2A which is so fabulous. I am a truly happy camper and so grateful for the new look.

 

[ColinW]

My good lady got me a mint copy of the 'Olympus OM System Lens Handbook'. I'm very happy.

 

[mwooten]

socks, I got socks

 

[zupstermix]

I hope to get film within the week. Still crossing my fingers.

 

[JeffGreene]

Rollei Manual by Alec Pearlman
Primo Jr with 10 rolls of 127 film.

 

[tonyjuliano]

A wonderful, very lightly used Bronica RF645 with 65mm lens (my first MF!), and lots of 120 film. Also, a Metz 45 CL-4.

 

[Steve M.]

Santa (Mr. Visa) brought me a collapsible Leica 50 Summicron. That ended up going back to the seller because the front optics were cross threaded into the housing. I've been bad, apparently. Next year I plan to be even worse.

 

[drinkingeye]

a brand new Leica MP - still not delivered
+ 60 packs of Neopan 1600 🙂
+ some creativity to find out a good story to tell my wife ;-)

 

[jsrockit]

Santa didn't bring me **** ... but I just bought myself a Ricoh GXR w/ 28mm module.

 

[unohuu]

My first working detachable lens rangefinder, and I 61L and Elmar 9cm f/4

 

[unohuu]

I got a card from my dad with an M9 drawn on it and written "20% on me".
Not sure if I will actually take it 😉

that is thoughtful. i would certainly take him up on it.

 

[umcelinho]

that is thoughtful. i would certainly take him up on it.

it's just that I don't *NEED* one, and I'd probably worry too much about the camera. The R-D1 already suits my needs 🙂

 

[raid]

A 2011 Honda Pilot. My better half totalled her car, so we had to get a replacement quickly.

As for photography items, Santa passed me by. Not even reindeer poops.

 

[NickTrop]

Santa (me) bought himself an infrared converted (720nm) Nikon Coolpix L20 digicam (for about the cost a roll of Kodak HIE goes for these days...) Hey, the camera is even red - had to!

 

[LeicaFan]

My sister gave me a very nice hardcover book on the history of Leica. I love it!