What did Santa bring you?

[xayraa33]

A very good condition 34 year old Praktica MTL 5 graced my Christmas this year. 🙂


I got a roll of Agfa APX 100 loaded up to take her out for a spin.

 

[Larry H-L]

Three pairs of tennis socks, two historically-inspired pottery pieces made by my son, and one Wacom Intuos Pro retouching tablet (in a pear tree).

 

[gb hill]

A very good condition 34 year old Praktica MTL 5 graced my Christmas this year. 🙂


I got a roll of Agfa APX 100 loaded up to take her out for a spin.

Interesting camera. Weird shutter placement, but the lens How is the Pentacon? How does it compare to the Helios 44M. I was gifted a 44M to use on my Pentax. I've heard the Pentacon is a superb lens.

 

[xayraa33]

Interesting camera. Weird shutter placement, but the lens How is the Pentacon? How does it compare to the Helios 44M. I was gifted a 44M to use on my Pentax. I've heard the Pentacon is a superb lens.

I have several Pentacon 50mm lenses in M42, from different eras , some with the electrical contacts for the LLC and VLC

They are good lens and they can vary somewhat but not to the extent that FSU LTM lenses do.

The good ones are equal to the 50mm Zeiss Pancolar in every way and my brother owns a copy of the 50mm Pentacon lens that has a very 3D bokeh, very exceptional lens.

The Helios 44 and especially the common 44-2 version are very nice lenses for portrait work and are somewhat consistent in quality for FSU lenses.

They have good pedigree as they are based on the 58mm Zeiss Biotar lens.

Their CA in their lens design produces a very pleasing Petzval like background swirl in portraits and they are very reasonably priced for the results they produce at medium to full aperture opening, every one should own one.

 

[mcfingon]

Merry Christmas everyone.

Thanks David. My daughter has one of the top-loader Lolly-Leica tins too. I noted something strange: evidence of a lens-shrinking culture. The lens is chopped off and shrunk from a Blad.

 

[Dante_Stella]

The most interesting things were: fifteen rolls of TMY 120, two stingray watch straps, and a dodgy looking, intentionally "vintage" (though otherwise inert) prop with flashing lights and a Dymo tape suggesting it it is the "stabilizer" for an office tower. This will be fun at work...

 

[David Hughes]

Sounds like a fun toy. I have a Leitz oil immersion scope that I enjoy using but my degree is in microbiology and chemistry. but then not everyone hav interest in microscopy.

Alas, that's very true...

 

[David Hughes]

Thanks David. My daughter has one of the top-loader Lolly-Leica tins too. I noted something strange: evidence of a lens-shrinking culture. The lens is chopped off and shrunk from a Blad.

Hi,

I wondered what it was off and the number is wrong for an M3 but that was the first thing I worked out before I noticed the number. All good fun...

Regards, David

 

[sreed2006]

Santa didn't bring me nothin'. So I got myself a WiFi cable modem and signed up with a non-benevolent internet service provider. I had been using my phone to use the internet for about the last 8 months, and that worked fine, but the data cap was too low. Now I can spend even more time ogling cameras and pictures on RFF.

Hope you all are enjoying what Santa brought - or finding to a way to obtain what he forgot.

 

[Mr_Flibble]

Also Boxing Day yielded these two lovelies from an Antiques fair

 

[rybolt]

It wasn't so much what I GOT but what I decided to KEEP. I picked these bodies up just a few days ago and have them on Ebay. After much struggling with it I think they'll stay in the collection. I already had the lenses that work well on them.

 

[anselwannab]

A 400/4.5 FD mount for my F1 New. Gave my wife a pass because of upcoming Leica and Fuji announcements coming in January, though I'd probably wait for the monochrom version.

 

[pixelated]

Santa brought me a wonderful piece of German precision in black, silver and green....

 

[farlymac]

A Paillard Bolex B8L. While not a still camera (though you can do stop-action animation with it), it's just nice to have a Swiss engineered camera to show off to folks.

PF

 

[xia_ke]

Not sure how, but somehow I managed to get taken off the naughty list 🙄 Looking forward to using the darkroom logbook as I really need to keep better track of my work flow.

 

[kuuan]

a phone call with my 87 year old mother from several 1000 km away, she is fine!
the inspiration to check my CV 4/21 that had given me bad results lately, to find that it's not the cheap adapter that I had started to blame but that the len's rear elements had become loose. fixed now!
and a dinner party with friends

Untitled by andreas, on Flickr, Olympus OM f2.8/24mm, Sony A7, Saigon 25/12/2016

 

[underlord]

I was given a (much) cheaper version of an 'Ice Light', basically a portable LED light stick. Looking forward to trying it with my film cameras!

DSCF5055 by Philip McAllister, on Flickr


DSCF5043 by Philip McAllister, on Flickr

 

[marko.oja]

Anton Corbijn's "1-2-3-4", Fred Mortagne's "Attraper Au Vol" and Inge Morath's "On Style".

 

[Talus]

4 photography books, a brick of tri-x and underwear and socks. What more could a guy ask for.

 

[oftheherd]

Black Cat Exposure Guide and an 828 film slitter for 120 film. 828 film made from the film slitter is to be used in a 9x12 back with a 828 camera back mounted on it. The camera moves up and down. The camera holds the film and uses a red window to see numbers on the film (that's going to be interesting to measure out). Slide the camera up and there is a ground glass window.

I'm looking forward to using both as soon as I buy (or make from 620) a couple more 828 reels and re-spool.