What have you just BOUGHT?

[james.liam]

Finally bought one of my dream cameras! It's a Hasselblad XPan w/45mm and in amazing shape. Only has 600 total shutter actuations, including the supposed 200 that are shot at the factory. It's been a long time since I've been truly excited by a camera, but I couldn't be happier and more inspired by this particular one.

Still looking for a 90mm, but all in good time. Already shot some rolls and having them developed currently. Can't wait to really put this cam through it's paces.


Hasselblad XPan - My new favorite cam

by Jordan Dickinson, on Flickr

Ditto! Picked one up months back. The 90 is less useful unless shooting landscapes at distance. They're ~$600 from the more reliable Japanese sources on fleaBay. Got one in the plastic case. From the looks of it, it had NEVER been mounted on a camera before. Also does not need the center ND filter.

 

[ruby.monkey]

My first Nikon F with Photomic FTn finder, 50 1.4 lens and a Never Ready Case. It can't arrive soon enough.

I would strongly suggest adding the AR-1 softrelease. The F has its shutter release button near the back of the top plate, like the earlier rangefinders, which can be awkward to reach when you're shooting.

 

[Huss]

You've got to explain that one.

$1600 + kidney

 

[Huss]

A Lomo LCA s on its way thanks to fellow forum member (Kuvvy), cheers Paul and happy new year

Funny I just bought this Cosina CX2 (Lomo copied the CX1) with rare Cosina diving shell today at a flea market. It comes with the motor drive. The camera is in almost new condition and I took a gamble as I couldn't test it. No batteries but the battery compartment was clean and the camera looked barely used.
Got it home, put batteries in it, works perfectly!

 

[james.liam]

Originally Posted by Huss View Post
Near perfect condition FM with the best zoom lens Nikon ever made - the 43-86.
Actually this is the second, improved version (you can tell because the text is on the outside of the lens ring) which is meant to be decent.

Said tongue-in-cheek, I hope

 

[Deleted member 65559]

"Black Paint Leica" book by Douglas So

 

[Huss]

Said tongue-in-cheek, I hope

Why, did you hear something?

 

[Deleted member 65559]

Why, did you hear something?

I remember when that lens came out...... for a user of 35mm f2 / 105 2.5 ....it sat perfectly in unusable range.... but it was small. Performance nowhere near the primes of the day. IMO

 

[CharlesDAMorgan]

Lots and lots of Leica cameras....

On a 100 years of Leica jigsaw.

 

[Dralowid]

Funny I just bought this Cosina CX2 (Lomo copied the CX1) with rare Cosina diving shell today at a flea market. It comes with the motor drive. The camera is in almost new condition and I took a gamble as I couldn't test it. No batteries but the battery compartment was clean and the camera looked barely used.
Got it home, put batteries in it, works perfectly!

Don't keep it long term in its airtight case, it can do nasty things to the covering which goes all sort of sticky...

 

[seany65]

Two 49mm spacer-rings. Now I can use a metal lens hood on my Tamron adaptall 2 70-150mm (20A) and completely bypass the built-in flimsy mini-skirt lens hood. (Though if I didn't already have a sky 1b filter on the lens, I'd need three spacer-rings not two).There is the added benefit of making the standard metal lens hood a bit deeper, it's now about half-way between a lenshood for a standard lens and one for a telephoto lens. Yay!

 

[Hogarth Ferguson]

Leica CL body, now that 40mm 1.2 I have will go onto something. Meter is funky, though. I really wish it worked properly.

 

[filmtwit]

For some reason, another Epson P600.

 

[Pál_K]

I remember when that lens came out...... for a user of 35mm f2 / 105 2.5 ....it sat perfectly in unusable range.... but it was small. Performance nowhere near the primes of the day. IMO

When the Nikkor 43-86 first came out, it was terrible. Not sharp. Distortion. That first version had the lens info on the inner side of the front bezel (or whatever that's called). Second version of the lens was much improved and can be identified by the writing being placed on the outside of the bezel - which also won't contribute to flare.

I've tried both versions, but my 28-85 Nikkor provides a much more useful range to me. Alas, the 28-85 has a ring-zoom, which I fumble with (too close to the aperture ring). The 43-86 is a nice push-pull zoom

 

[Chris101]

I've given up on my attempt to make an older 43-86 into an AI lens, so I just bought a nice looking 43-86mm f/3.5 AI lens. It's the one with the lettering on the outside of the barrel. I also bought an MD-E, a 2+ frame per second electric winder. Now my FG makes that sound associated with 60s-80s press photography: Click-whirr.

 

[shawn]

49mm Kolari IR Chrome filter and a aki-asahi red lizard emboss kit for a x100. Figure the camera should look the part.

Shawn

 

[p.giannakis]

Nothing photographic related. But I did buy a car.

 

[eli griggs]

A five pound bag of sodium thiosulfate, for mixing simple fixer, or in case the neighbor takes the decision for cyanide.

You can never be too prepared when you're the photographer who points his camera in the wrong direction. ;-)

IMO.

 

[Brian Atherton]

Traded in my four year-old X-Pro2 for the X-Pro3.

 

[seany65]

A Prinzflex 500 camera and a Hanimex f2.8 135mm lens.

I say bought, but I haven't actually paid for them yet, they were sitting in a glass cabinet at a charity shop I volunteer at and I couldn't help take them home to give them a go for a couple of weeks. I should be paying for them tomorrow.

I have a sneaky suspicion that I'll end up buying a Helios 44-2 lens that's sitting in a shop which is quite close to me and which has a life-size gold Dalek on sale for £1500.

And maybe a wide-angle lens.😱

And various filters, caps and hoods.😱

And possibly a cheap gadget bag.😱

And then I'll take them to a charity shop after a few weeks.

I really, really, should NOT be allowed anywhere near any money I get.🙄