What have you just BOUGHT?

[Godfrey]

Are you referring to those screens with the markings on them for the CFV II 50C? I think the part # is 3042264? If you can find one (they’re discontinued for some odd reason) I think they’re crazy-priced. Like $400-$500 crazy-priced. Who knows though - maybe a bargain-priced one might pop up on KEH someday.

Hmm. I bought two of them in 2020, one for each of my 500CM bodies, and I think I paid about $120 each. They were actually part of the original CFV 50c kit, didn't come with the 907x/CFV II 50c kit. That kit came with a mask instead, which I have never liked.

G

 

[Vince Lupo]

Hmm. I bought two of them in 2020, one for each of my 500CM bodies, and I think I paid about $120 each. They were actually part of the original CFV 50c kit, didn't come with the 907x/CFV II 50c kit. That kit came with a mask instead, which I have never liked.

G

If we’re talking about the same screen, then yeah that seems to be the going rate for them now, as I say if you can find one:

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1218198-REG/hasselblad_3042264_focusing_screen_for_cfv_50c.html

I’d gladly pay what you originally paid for yours - I guess for now I’ll have to be content with the mask I made. I suppose the one saving grace is that the one I made will work equally in my 1000f’s, 1600f, 500C and 500C/M.

 

[largedrink]

I repaired the rangefinder on the Fujica G690 I bought last week. Bit of a mission but got there in the end. The piece that slides across a couple of steel rails to move the rangefinder image had seized at infinity and took some encouragement to slide freely once more. Once that was done I cleaned the glass surfaces and now it's working beautifully. Here's how the apparatus looks, from underneath.

 

[Retro-Grouch]

I repaired the rangefinder on the Fujica G690 I bought last week. Bit of a mission but got there in the end. The piece that slides across a couple of steel rails to move the rangefinder image had seized at infinity and took some encouragement to slide freely once more. Once that was done I cleaned the glass surfaces and now it's working beautifully. Here's how the apparatus looks, from underneath.

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Congratulations on a successful repair! I suspect the Fuji rangefinders might all have problems with sticky rangefinders. My GS645S has had to be opened up and lubed twice since I've had it. It's a simple job; there a metal shaft, in a housing, under spring tension that pulls the mechanism back to its resting position. The spring is not strong enough to overcome the resistance that occurs if the lube on the shaft gums up or gets dirty, the kind of poor engineering that is self-evident the moment you look at it. Still a great little camera, though.

 

[Pál_K]

A Pentax S1a. Works great. Focusing screen isn't the best; the H3v has a nicer one and my SP500 is best of all.

 

[zane0777]

A lightly used Nikon D300. I stumbled into a couple of decent Nikkors and I'm impressed with the lot.

 

[Pál_K]

What I should've said in my post above is that with the Pentax S1a's particular screen, focusing is not easy if the lens' maximum aperture is f/3.5 or smaller.

 

[Peter_S]

Another Contax T after I dropped mine. On the upside, the new one has a working film counter. Always need a working Contax in the house.

 

[joe bosak]

A film back for my Mamiya AFDII.

 

[wlewisiii]

Spent a wee bit of money on Ebay this payday for my Nikon S-2 kit.

First got a better hand held meter coming, a used Sekonic L-308S:


The later in the day found a clean Nikkor-Q 135/3.5 for S mount with caps, hood & finder for only 38.99. You betcha I bought it too 🤣

 

[wayben]

A Nikon 3.5cm - 13.5cm Verifocal finder. Needed it to use a 85mm lens on my S3.
Wayne

 

[yanchep_mike]

A Nikon F-601 with 35-70mm 3.3-4.5
Looks good have the first film loaded.

 

[seany65]

This week I received a 30mm push-on lens hood that was dirt cheap for my Voigtlander Brillant f4.5 to experiment with bending the tabs inwards to see if doing that would allow decent fit onto the lens even though it's supposed to take 29mm filters. No chance, still miles too big. I also bought a 28.5mm push-on close up filter to see if that could be made to fit the Brillant. I had to perform surgery on the filter to open it up enough but it was still too tight. I bought a 29mm push-on lens hood that after a tiny bit of bending of the tabs allows proper fit onto the Brillant.

I think there's a life-lesson in there somewhere.

 

[Richard G]

Leica large ball head for the table top tripod. Have had the small one for 46 years. The large one is not just larger. The steel ball has deep horizontal grooves. This means that the locking lever grips quickly and completely with a slight turn. Found it on Roberts Camera eBay site second hand for a quarter of the new price in Melbourne. While second hand it was basically brand new in the box. Feels like it was never used.

it takes this camera easily. Frame, lock the lever. No creep at all.

 

[Richard G]

And this…

 

[shawn]

Great meter, I have one but it doesn't have the zone system numbering on the dial like yours.

 

[Richard G]

Interesting. I think this might be for US market specifically.

 

[wrs1145]

Minolta IIIM, got to get a CLA done and then ready to shoot!

 

[someonenameddavid]

Just spent way too much for a rare full set of Horseman rangefinder cams for my 985. Now I can use all of my lenses (65, 75, 90, 105, and 150) fully coupled for hand-held rangefinder shooting. I've never been any good at guesstimating distance; up 'til now, all but the 105 were restricted to ground glass focusing and viewing, so I felt I was wasting so much of this wonderful camera's potential.

Thanks to an itchy bidding finger I'm the proud owner of a Horseman 980, minus a 75 cam. Where do you buy cams

 

[NLSparks]

A Lumix 20mm 1.7 V-II.
Want to glue it on my EM5-III and see if this works for me as a small and light setup.