What have you just BOUGHT?

[f.hayek]

Purchased on early April, received two days ago, the R9.

Leica R9 28-70 by Francisco Solares-Larrave, on Flickr

R9 with marmalade.

I have a BlackRapid strap for mine so the camera, lens and winder sit inverted and more comfortably on my hip. Highly recommended.

 

[Wouter2]

Black Nikon F with meterless finder. Haven't received it yet, but I know it'll need service. One of those must-have classic cameras. Now looking for a period correct 2.8/35mm.

 

[agentlossing]

I dreamed (!) I got a black Leica M7, with a Summicron (yes, I named it in my dream, but no promises as to the accuracy as the M7 was a bit unrealistic), but it was actually accidentally stolen! I was in a shop, the salesman said to take the camera for a spin and I left with it, and totally forgot about it. Realized it the next day and was worried the police would show up to take me into custody for stealing the expensive camera. And then, as the saying goes, I woke up.

 

[Mudman]

Picked up the Canon EOS 1v. Haven't gotten any new M bodies since the M2 last year, which I've been enjoying a lot. I also got a Canonet GII QL17 in the original box, which I sent out for new light seals and to have haze removed from the viewfinder.

 

[zenza]

On Monday I casually checked Epson R-D1 prices on and was a bit sad to see how much they are.

On Wednesday a friend linked me to one for sale without knowing I had been looking at them a few days earlier. The seller offered it to me for a fantastic deal.

I should be receiving it in the mail today. Super excited. Going to try it out with my LTM Canon 50/1.5 this evening after work hopefully.

 

[Pál_K]

I dreamed (!) I got a black Leica M7, with a Summicron (yes, I named it in my dream, but no promises as to the accuracy as the M7 was a bit unrealistic), but it was actually accidentally stolen! I was in a shop, the salesman said to take the camera for a spin and I left with it, and totally forgot about it. Realized it the next day and was worried the police would show up to take me into custody for stealing the expensive camera. And then, as the saying goes, I woke up.

Ah, yes. I miss the good old days when the sales staff would let you take the camera out for a spin. Haha! Camera dreams are good dreams.

 

[cary]

Just won a black Nikon FTN on eBay. This brings me up to eight Nikon F’s, three in black.

 

[agentlossing]

Ah, yes. I miss the good old days when the sales staff would let you take the camera out for a spin. Haha! Camera dreams are good dreams.

A good dream - except for my panic at the end when I assumed police would knock on my door at any moment! 😀

 

[jarski]

Philips 4k curved monitor. will be interesting to see how old 8 and 10mp files look on it.

 

[Mr_Flibble]

A 1959 Leica IIIg, viewfinder prism is supposedly cloudy.

 

[Vince Lupo]

After much searching and hoping, I finally found one:


Rollex-Patent 127 by Vince Lupo, on Flickr

127 roll film back that should (hopefully!) fit the Ermanox.

 

[madNbad]

A Zeiss Loxia 21 2.8. I have a 21,35,50 kit for the M4 and want to do the same for the Sony.

 

[f.hayek]

A Yashica 35 CC rangefinder and I've loving it! Saved me from buying something much more expensive!

You’ll probably end up buying that too.

 

[Pál_K]

Philips 4k curved monitor. will be interesting to see how old 8 and 10mp files look on it.

Please follow up and share what you think. I’m assuming you will be viewing the monitor at the same distance as the monitor you have now.

All I have is a laptop from ~2016 and its ~14” monitor. When I first started looking at scanned images on my monitor (relatively recently, since 95% of what I do are prints), I first thought all my images were extremely soft. Foolishly, I didn’t realize the photo viewer was scaling my image to fit it onto the screen. By expanding that “fit” image by 14-16% (so it no longer completely fits), suddenly all the expected detail appeared. Maybe this is obvious to everyone, but it made me feel foolish.

I’ve never seen my work on any screen larger than that of my dinky laptop, but I don’t know if a 4K high def screen would rekindle my latent pixel peeping bad habits if I started looking at my medium format scans on it. I’m actually happy with how my Minolta 8MP and Pentax 10MP images look on the small screen.

 

[Yokosuka Mike]

Two things:

1) Fujifilm RR-100 Remote Release for my GFX 50R.

2) Kenko 58mm ND64 filter for use on my Fujinon GF 30mm f3.5 R WR lens.

All the best,
Mike

 

[David Hughes]

Please follow up and share what you think. I’m assuming you will be viewing the monitor at the same distance as the monitor you have now.

All I have is a laptop from ~2016 and its ~14” monitor. When I first started looking at scanned images on my monitor (relatively recently, since 95% of what I do are prints), I first thought all my images were extremely soft. Foolishly, I didn’t realize the photo viewer was scaling my image to fit it onto the screen. By expanding that “fit” image by 14-16% (so it no longer completely fits), suddenly all the expected detail appeared. Maybe this is obvious to everyone, but it made me feel foolish.

I’ve never seen my work on any screen larger than that of my dinky laptop, but I don’t know if a 4K high def screen would rekindle my latent pixel peeping bad habits if I started looking at my medium format scans on it. I’m actually happy with how my Minolta 8MP and Pentax 10MP images look on the small screen.

Don't feel a fool, it's not your doing. I think the problem is that we see monitors as 14" (for example) and not as (say) a 1 megapixel screen. And I expect a lot of people think 14" is the width but it isn't.

I often wonder what they look at those 151 mp files on; probably a laptop and use the * and / keys to check...

Regards, David

 

[das]

A Revueflex AC1 (Chinon CE-3). This camera is way nicer than expected. https://www.instagram.com/p/CPCDDR4jpBg

 

[agentlossing]

Normal people (like my wife) think it's pretty weird when I shop for these expensive optical viewfinders, but as a Bessa-T user I have to. Samy's camera had the Pentax 47mm viewfinder for $79, which should get me pretty close to a 50mm (which I've been thinking about getting, which one I'm not yet decided - the 50/2.5 Skopar would be nice but it costs even more than the 50/3.5 Heliar these days).

I think it works to cure minor GAS surges by limiting myself to only purchasing lenses for which I have viewfinders closely approximate to!

 

[agentlossing]

Normal people (like my wife) think it's pretty weird when I shop for these expensive optical viewfinders, but as a Bessa-T user I have to. Samy's camera had the Pentax 47mm viewfinder for $79, which should get me pretty close to a 50mm (which I've been thinking about getting, which one I'm not yet decided - the 50/2.5 Skopar would be nice but it costs even more than the 50/3.5 Heliar these days).

I think it works to cure minor GAS surges by limiting myself to only purchasing lenses for which I have viewfinders closely approximate to!

Dammit... they emailed me they were out of stock. Take it off your website then!

 

[JeffS7444]

Lately it's been more about selling than buying.

2020: 10 sold, 3 purchased
2021 to date: 5 sold or selling, 2 purchased.

Jenaflex AM-1 seems to be a Praktica B200 in CZJ commemorative guise. I did not attempt to disguise the mended crack in the top cover and haven't decided whether to leave to leave the seam as-is or cover in gold leaf or powder.