What have you just BOUGHT?

[dtcls100]

Two knockoff twist open lens caps for my two Olympus Tg-5 waterproof cameras. You twist the lens caps and the center of the cap retracts to allow pics, eliminating need to remove (and lose) the caps. Olympus sells the originals for a ridiculous $50 apiece. The knockoffs were about $15 apiece. Don’t know why more of these aren’t being sold for other cameras.

 

[Huss]

A couple of complements for my KMZ Zenit EM: a macro bellows PZF and a VOMZ Jupiter-21M f4 / 200mm (I already owned the camera and the Helios lens).

Do you do any actual macro shooting with that set up? Or is it to collect?

Can't remember the last time I saw any current macro film work.

 

[Huss]

Adox CMS 20 II Pro film from RFF classifieds.

I'll shoot it at ISO 6 and develop it in Cinestill DF96 Monobath and see what happens...
(at least one roll in case it's a disaster!)

 

[carbo73]

Do you do any actual macro shooting with that set up? Or is it to collect?

Can't remember the last time I saw any current macro film work.

Yes, I tried it with that camera, and it worked, but I've discovered that for macro shooting is more convenient with a M42/Nikon adapter and my digital D750. I hope to use it mostly with my collection of World's banknotes & coins.

Just an example (here using a Zeiss Tessar f2.8/50mm in M42 mount):

 

[telenous]

I bought locally a nice, black Nikkormat FT2. I'll match it with one of the nicest lenses I have tried for film Nikons, the Nippon Kogaku 50/2 H.

 

[Speedy]

bought a minox 35 ml, 35 gt, nikon l35af, konica c35ef3 black, takumar 35mm and 135mm , lenses need cleaning, i will try cleaning myself

 

[Speedy]

a schneider kreuznach 75mm f 4 enlarger lens, hopefully can find a adapter and helicoid...dont know yet

 

[Speedy]

also some hahnemuhle and van gogh watercolor paper, but they have some dust and fingerprints on them, so i will order hahnemuhle sample pack i think...

 

[al1966]

Felt like getting a DSLR having been mirror free for a good few years, so I picked up an MZ 50/60 with 28-200 Pentax and a Tokina 100-300 for a song and later this week am picking up an M-X I think its the 12mp AA bateries one. We also bought a house and moved to just North of the Yorkshire Moors. So a lot of months moving stuff and doing up the place, now trying to figure out Landscape photography, not something I have done really.

 

[Huss]

bought a minox 35 ml, 35 gt, nikon l35af, konica c35ef3 black, takumar 35mm and 135mm , lenses need cleaning, i will try cleaning myself

Post pics taken by the Konica C35ef3!

(I won't ask for pics from the Minoxs because that may cause them to break).

 

[Huss]

Arguably the greatest Nikon 35mm manual focus with built in motordrive, beepy thing you can switch off, that takes 4 AAA batteries, SLR film camera ever made.

 

[russelljtdyer]

Island of Sakhalin

Island of Sakhalin

Thanks, yes, that's what I figured, more or less. What I can't understand the meaning is the "may" in the last line. Maybe it was presented in May 1st.

My wife, who's Russian, agrees with Pál_K's interpretation, but says there's a bit more at the end:

"Presented to Lt. Col. Sadovnikov from fellow officers on the island of Sakhalin, May."

She thinks it's as you say, a May Day present. She also says her father was in the army on that island at that time. She's going to ask him if he knew this colonel. I'll update this post after she talks to him. Wouldn't that be funny if her father was one of those fellow officers. Even better, if he had a photo of the colonel with the camera when they gave it to him. That would be a neat bit of historical background for you.

 

[Vince Lupo]

Jeanneret Monobloc 6x13 stereo/panorama camera, about 1920. Needs a little bit of mechanical attention, but overall it's excellent.


Jeanneret Monobloc by Vince Lupo, on Flickr

 

[ChrisPlatt]

Ten rolls of Eastman 5222 "Double X" film

There's one seller on eBay who offers 24 exposure rolls, which I prefer.
I have a bulk loader but I don't shoot enough to make 100' worthwhile.

Chris

 

[Godfrey]

Three Hasselblad 32E extension tubes ... I had two extension tubes already but that only gets me to 1:2.5 with the Makro-Planar 120mm lens; I've added a few more so I can get closer to 1:1 magnification.

I considered hunting up a bellows unit, but the three extension tubes were less expensive and are less prone to collecting dust.

G

 

[Speedy]

Post pics taken by the Konica C35ef3!

(I won't ask for pics from the Minoxs because that may cause them to break).

hopefully soon....

love minox..kinda elastic lets say😀

 

[Huss]

Ten rolls of Eastman 5222 "Double X" film

There's one seller on eBay who offers 24 exposure rolls, which I prefer.
I have a bulk loader but I don't shoot enough to make 100' worthwhile.

Chris

Who was the seller?

I bought 5 rolls of Super Hypan II 25 from a seller on RFF that also sells on ebay.
They were meant to be 24 exp, but averaged between 18-20 shots per roll....

 

[Huss]

Jeanneret Monobloc 6x13 stereo/panorama camera, about 1920. Needs a little bit of mechanical attention, but overall it's excellent.


Jeanneret Monobloc by Vince Lupo, on Flickr

Monobloc? Looks more like lunchbox.


😀😉

 

[telenous]

I bought locally a nice, black Nikkormat FT2. I'll match it with one of the nicest lenses I have tried for film Nikons, the Nippon Kogaku 50/2 H.

Made a photo of this baby.

(Photograph under camera by Pamela Browne.)

Nikkormat FT2 with Nippon Kogaku 50/2 H by Strangefinder, on Flickr

 

[carbo73]

My largest camera, a huge Soviet GOMZ FK 18x24, made in Leningrad in 1960. An an even less usual one equiped with a giant leaf shutter of unknown cyrillic name. The shutter seems to be much more "modern", made in 1986. It has the name KOEZ in it, and I found an obscure Kaluga Optical Experimental Factory with that name. Anyway it works, and I even did a couple of large film sheets with it. To try the concept, keep the costs low and even to have some context to it, I found really cheap Soviet sheet film in that size, made by Smeva and expired in the 80's. It worked, although with quite a lot of fog.

Oh, and the lens is the one that went with the camera, a KOMZ Industar I-37 f4.5 / 300mm, made in Kazan in the same year than the camera.

I hope to use it more, and I'm planning to use it one day with collodion wet plates.