What have you just BOUGHT?

carbo73 said:
A shutter speed tester for my smartphone (up to 1/1000), several plastic trays and a safety lamp for dark room use, Kodak Hypo clearing agent, and a 4x5 contact printing frame.

Most of these are signs that I'm preparing to use & develop J. Lane Dry Plates. First three (9x12) loaded in their holders 😀😀😀
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"A shutter speed tester for my smartphone (up to 1/1000)"
Would that be an App??
and if so what one.
 
45govt said:
"A shutter speed tester for my smartphone (up to 1/1000)"
Would that be an App??
and if so what one.
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Yes, you need an app (mine is simply called Shutter Speed). But the app only with the smartphone uses exclusively its microphone, so you can try to check the speeds by the sound of the opening and closing of the shutter. Usable with leaf shutters at slow speeds, but much more difficult at increasingly faster speeds and with focal plane shutters. So this tester is a light meter plugged to the smartphone, converting the light impulse to sound. Much more easy to use. And it's cheap.
 
Something you don’t see everyday! A Mint++++ Ansco Automatic Reflex f 3.5. Really an amazing camera it feels and operates as new, this is a late production camera. I’d like to upgrade the ground glass to a pro hasselblad screen...
 
Got the currently trendy (Infinity) Olympus Stylus f3.5 -- first in the line. Seller had said the front cover was "very difficult to close." For $26 delivered, I figured it might be off track, or gritted up, or, something I could easily fix. ALL I had to do was put a battery in it. Apparently, the battery had been run down or removed with the cover open, thus lens slightly extended. I'll test it next week -- hoping the lens has not been messed up by errant attempts to close the cover.
 
Last week a Leica TL2body to upgrade my T (may sell that here shortly), and this week a Nikon FA with lens- bought it on a lark from a member here in the classifieds. I love the Nikon FA, I will now have 3 of them. The FA and the F4 are the only Nikon bodies that I have multiples of.
 
A load of 16GB SD cards, I would have preferred 8GB but they were over twice the price. Given how cheap cards are now I am using them as a write once download and then keep as a back up. At £4 each not that different from the price of a roll of film.
 
An autographed copy of a close-up/macro photography book by Mike Moats:

Tiny Landscapes
Printed in USA, America's Finest Printing Company
2008
 
Well it's official, I'm now a Nikon fan: after getting two 35s (35/2.5 and 35/1.8 both in LTM) in the last few months, I've just added the 8.5cm / f2 (black) in LTM as well. Pretty soon I'll be habituated to the Nikon aperture direction and will have forgotten the Leica-Way. Now I just have to find the right Nikon 50 to make the turn to the Dark Side complete.
 
I bought a new laptop...my old one is too old...it still does what I want to do but it's old and falling apart...a hinge is broken and the battery doen't hold a charge, DVD player doesn't read discs...
I'm just not thrilled with having to learn a new system, but I'm happy I bought it...
 
A Nice Old FOCA

A Nice Old FOCA

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FWIW, this was the dirtiest camera I have ever bought. Now I need to find someone to sort out the shutter and someone to tackle the ERC...


Regards, David
 
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