What have you just BOUGHT?

[Malcolm M]

Photiac polarizing filter. Same idea as Leica POOLN, but not as expensive. Clamp filter to lens, swing round 180 degrees, rotate filter as required using knurled ring, swing back into position for use.

Addendum- not exactly easy to use. Flipping the filter blocks either the viewfinder of rangefinder. Rotating it knocks the focus off, unless locked on infinity. (Not quite as bad now I’ve stripped and greased it). Readjusting the focus affects the angle of the filter, so everything goes round and round in circles. Noticeable amber cast to filter, and magenta tint to surfaces with supressed reflections (although not yet seen any ill effects on minimal number of exposures). Vignetting with 35mm lens.

 

[lukx]

This thread is the worst for GAS affected.

Shawn's M3 looks very clean, great find! I am keeping my eyes open but the clean late ones are very expensive at the moment.

And that Linhof Technorama is a rare beast of a camera.

 

[Yokosuka Mike]

My new toy - Fujifilm GFX 50R and Fujinon GF 63mm f2.8 R WR lens

Fujifilm X-Pro3 - Fujinon XF 50mm f2 R WR lens
Astia film simulation
Yokosuka, Japan - August 2020

All the best,
Mike

 

[Out to Lunch]

Congratulations! Can your computer handle the big files or do you need to upgrade?

 

[valdas]

I am going to try this one now:

 

[Godfrey]

Nice to see someone else trying out medium format digital. 🙂

I have so much stuff photographic-wise it's rare that I buy much other than instant film and the occasional fixture of late, but Hasselblad has announced the grip and optical viewfinder accessories for my 907x Special Edition now. I've put them on order ...

The Negative Supply 120 film carrier for scanning arrived recently also. It's a beefy, very well made device with a nicely worked out pressure frame to hold the film flat, a mechanism to advance the roll precisely, and masks for 6x9, 6x7, 6x6, and 6x4.5 formats. A bit pricey but the quality is there ... Should make getting captures of my 120 film captures easy and super high quality. I'll be giving it a first run this week.

G

 

[SimonSawSunlight]

I haven't bought much for a while, except loads of film and the 35mm f2 Ultron last year.
However, Tom's old Elmarit 28mm f2.8 vIII is on its way to me as a very generous wedding gift from the Abrahamssons. He bought it for a travel kit in 1981 and I intend to stay true to that purpose. I can't wait, both for the lens and the travelling. 😉

 

[beezerc15]

just got a mint baby rolleiflex and a roll of crossbird colour print film.

 

[carbo73]

A couple of boxes of Jason Lane dry plates: 10 in half plate format (2 ASA) and 10 in special format for a Gaumont Spido stereo camera (25 ASA).


Then also a bottle of Adox Rodinal film developer, another of Neutol Eco paper developer, another of Ilford Rapid Fixer, and a couple of Fomapan 100 & Kodak Ektar 100 120 format roll fims.

 

[Vince Lupo]

Blaming this on a post by ‘spatumba’ here a couple of weeks ago 🙂


Bronica S2 Kit #2 by Vince Lupo, on Flickr

Back in about 1990 when I was in my first to second year in the undergrad Still Photography program at Ryerson in Toronto, I wandered into a great, yet now sadly departed camera shop called The Studio Centre. I wouldn’t be surprised if many of my fellow Torontonian RFF’ers didn’t even know about The Studio Centre. It was located in what I thought was a very odd location - in suburban Don Mills, on a relatively short side street (Scarsdale Rd.) of industrial buildings nestled amongst the tony residential neighbourhoods that populate the area. It was a cavernous warehouse of a store, and really catered more to commercial photographers than lowly students like myself. So I was a bit of a fish out of water in that store, but no one ever bothered with me there so I was free to roam around and explore. One day while I was there, I noticed a small upright glass case with some used cameras. One camera kit caught my eye - a Bronica S2a with a 75mm lens as well as a 200mm lens. As I seem to recall, the whole kit was about $200-$400. I was enthralled with it, and on an impulse I bought it. It turned out to be quite a great camera - I loved the look of that 75mm lens squished against the body, and the chrome and black body seemed to be from another era - if the body had tailfins they would not have looked out of place. Plus that 200/4 Nikkor lens was a real beauty.

I don’t remember how I ended up parting ways with it, but for almost 30 years I had that camera in the back of my mind. Sure there were likely similar, more reliable cameras (hello Hasselblad!), but that soft spot for that Bronica tank never really left me. Fast-forward to a few weeks ago and a fellow RFF member spatumba posted that he just purchased a Bronica C2, and that got me thinking again. Long story short, I found this kit on eBay last week and it arrived yesterday. It’s an S2 and the body needs attention, but the 75 and 200 lenses are really clean and the Bronica L-bracket is a nice bonus. Time will tell if the current reality meets the wistful memory and ends up nudging my 500c aside 🙂

 

[spatumba]

Hi Vince, glad i helped cure your GAS.
I love my new C2, not so much its heavy weight (surprised), but I like the sound of its shutter.
Congratulations !!

 

[buzzlightyear]

Leica M4-P with Summicron 35mm and new leatherette to permanently remove the red logo.

 

[Yokosuka Mike]

Congratulations! Can your computer handle the big files or do you need to upgrade?

Sorry, Peter, I just noticed this. Don't worry, I'll be fine.

All the best,
Mike

 

[MrFujicaman]

A Vivitar DF-283 flash for my Nikon N8008s-$3 at the local thrift store. Anybody got a manual for these?

 

[Out to Lunch]

Anybody got a manual for these?

https://www.manualslib.com/manual/902978/Vivitar-283.html

 

[spatumba]

A nice and shiny Bronica c2 is on the way! 🙂

Bronica C2 just-arrived 😉

 

[Pál_K]

Bronica C2 just-arrived 😉
...

Congratulations - it's a nice looking camera.

 

[jszokoli]

Posted to wrong tread...
:bang:

 

[jwc57]

I love my S2a

 

[Vince Lupo]

Bronica C2 just-arrived 😉

Ya nice one! Works okay?

I like the idea of this one not having a removable back. As long as you don’t ever have the need to change film mid-roll, I like the clean look.