What have you just BOUGHT?

Gotta say that Contax G2 is simply gorgeous.

Okay, my recent purchases have actually included a couple of rangefinders.

Bought a Nikon PB-4 bellows with PS-4 slide copy attachment, and the owner, who was clearing out his stuff in preparation for leaving the country, decided to toss in a Nikon F2S with MD-2/MB-1 and DS-1 with charger at no extra charge. :eek: Pick me up off the floor!

Bought a fellow's Olympus outfit: OM-1, OM-1n, 50/1.8, 135/3.5, 24/2.8 Vivitar in OM mount, Vivitar 283 flash and a black Olympus Trip 35. I'm gonna keep the Vivitar 283 flash and the Trip 35 and sell everything else.

Got on a black Canon FTb kick lately. Bought two off eBay, one FTb, and one FTbn. The FTb is in decent condition and came with a chrome-nose 50/1.4. The "n" has been dunked in water at some time in the past, came with a 50/1.8 and is in generally marginal to poor shape. Oh well. So, I tried again, won another "n" model, and this one arrived this week. Nice shape! So now I've got a black FTb and FTbn. Woot!

About the same time I bought the first two FTbs, I bid on and won a Canon QL-17 GIII with Canolite D flash. Everything's in very nice shape. The meter works and is accurate. And so are the shutter speeds.

More recently, I bid on and won a Nikon F with the early non-TTL Photomic finder -- the one with the round window on the front and the semaphore that turns it on and off. Everything works great. Cool old camera.

And I bought a DP-1 Photomic finder for my F2, which has been meterless for 20 years. Nice to have a metered head for it at last.

Incidentally, I've tested both the Oly Trip 35 and the Canon QL17. Ran rolls of B&W through them, and they rendered excellent images. Hard to say which one I like better. They're both loaded with Ektar now, maybe that will make it a bit easier to decide.
 
Voigtlander Bessa II with Color Heliar.

Shutter ok but a bit stiff at 1/400, aperture ok, rangefinder ok, bellows ok, lens perfectly clear. I'll let it have a CLA anyway.
 
A nice used Zeiss Ikon Biogon 35 f2 M-mount lens in silver, that was for sale in the classifieds here in RFF. I just got notice it was shipped (thanks, Dan!!), so I think I can expect a Monday delivery... if not sooner. :)
 
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Waiting for my first roll to come back from Walmart. Will post them when they arrive.


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Three (3) Minolta Maxxum 7000 35mm SLR's. One (1) Minolta Maxxum 50mm lens. One (1) Minolta Maxxum 28-85mm lens. One (1) Minolta Maxxum 35-80mm.
 
Just today a Nikkor 20/2.8 AFD lens rated EXC + and it does look as advertised. Did notice that at 2.8,& f4 it has distinct vignetting on the left side but it is gone by 5.6 and smaller.I still think it's a keeper but my Olympus 21/3.5 is better but it may be too soon to tell.
 
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Voigtlander Bessa-R w/ Jupiter 8 lens.
I love it so much, I'm selling ALL my rangefinders (except my yashica electro 35 gsn, because it was my first) and only shooting with this one.

Here's some photos I took with it from my test roll. [Fuji Reala]

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leppaludi said:
Leica IIIc and matching Summitar...

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Woahh - that looks like new! You lucky …

I just bought a collapsible 5cm Summicron - can't wait, to find out, if it collapses on Leica digital ;-)

Before I twisted myself just enough, to get a M9 after 2 years of s l o w decision making ;-)
 
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