What have you just BOUGHT?

[Dogman]

A reportedly Excellent+ one of these:

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Image stolen from B&H website. Should be here tomorrow. Maybe. It's, you know, FedEx. May be next week.


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Well, FedEx is to be commended. Lens delivered this morning. I sat down and opened the package, put the lens on an adapter and put it on my Z5. Christie had been watching the FedEx truck leave so I snapped a quick two frames at ƒ/2.8 with the new lens.

For my purposes, this'll do fine.











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[KoNickon]

That actually looks like a Nikkor 35/2 or maybe a 28/2 instead of a 50mm. Both lenses are quite good. As is the 50mm.


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No, that's the 50. The focus ring on the other two lenses are wider, with three and four rows respectively.

 

[p.giannakis]

That actually looks like a Nikkor 35/2 or maybe a 28/2 instead of a 50mm. Both lenses are quite good. As is the 50mm.


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I think it is the 50. The 35mm has the infinity sign after 5m. The 50 has infinity after 10m

 

[Leon C]

That actually looks like a Nikkor 35/2 or maybe a 28/2 instead of a 50mm. Both lenses are quite good. As is the 50mm.


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You had me drooling for a sec but I did go have a quick look on Roland's site but both the 35 & 28 have 3+ ridge focus rings!

Not sure if it's a reflection thing but you can't see the recessed front as on my current 50/2 so it'll be interesting when it lands.

 

[Dogman]

You're right guys, I'm sure. The filter made the lens look a bit longer than the 50mm to me. Sorry for getting your hopes up.

 

[WoodallP]

Yup, I meant more disappointed if it turned out to not being 35mm FOV. Will find out soon enough.

I suppose that’s down to the optical bit. I have never really checked if the 50mm and 6x9 were the same but logically the 50 should be a bit tighter as the typical 105mm on 6x9 equates to about a 43mm on 50mm.

 

[davidswiss]

Carry around case for Contax IIa, made by luigi cases, mostly for Leicas I think.

 

[santino]

Carry around case for Contax IIa, made by luigi cases, mostly for Leicas I think.
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Beautiful combination of colors

 

[yossi]

Just received 10 rolls of Kodak Plus-X 2402 in 120 format, from The Middle Kingdom🤗. Hopefully it is still good. At $4.50/roll, I certainly can take a chance.

 

[Talus]

Just received 10 rolls of Kodak Plus-X 2402 in 120 format, from The Middle Kingdom🤗. Hopefully it is still good. At $4.50/roll, I certainly can take a chance.
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Nice price! Curious to know how it works out.

 

[yossi]

I loaded a roll of Plus-X into a A16 magazine to shoot 645 with the Hasselblad 500C/M. Below are two random shots scanned with a Nikon Coolscan 9000:

Shot with my favorite Planar 80mm lens.

Shot with a Distagon 60mm lens.

I must say I am very pleased with the quality of this expired Plus-X film. It's exceeded my expectation.

 

[valdas]

OM1 - a black one, finally…

 

[Malcolm M]

Canon Powershot S5. Now, I don’t understand digital cameras. They seem to be covered by supernumerary knobs, dials and buttons covered in incomprehensible hieroglyphs, which, as far as I can make out do different things depending on whether there’s an R in the month, or what you had for breakfast. Each button leads to menus, sub-menus and sub-sub-menus allowing you to change parameters I never knew existed. And if you do find something potentially useful, you can never retrace your steps to find it again.

On the basis of the above, I’ve given it to a couple of seven year olds, who might make more sense of it than I can.

 

[Vince Lupo]

I didn’t think I’d be buying any more anything photographic but a lens popped up on eBay that I’ve been hoping to find someday. A 120mm f/4.5 Rodenstock Imagon lens in a Hasselblad 1600f/1000f mount with two ‘strainer’ discs. I have another Imagon that I had modified to fit my 907x but it wouldn’t work on my 1000fs. It’s coming from Thailand so I likely won’t see it for a month anyways. Huh guess I have to get to selling off more stuff to compensate for this purchase!

 

[boojum]

I put this in another thread about camera repair as I have a Contax II with Oleg. In a fit of stupid I started thinking the CZJ 5cm f/2.0 really would like a 1.5 stablemate and poked around eBay and found this lens, with a Contax III attached which works. For US$200. Talk about a deal. It is in the mail tomorrow. And the old '37 CZJ 1.5 is factory coated. I am so lucky. Here it is:

Pardon Our Interruption...

 

[Yokosuka Mike]

Just came today--a new used Voigtländer Nokton Classic 35/1.4 MC II lens. Love the size and handling and the first photos tell me I'll like my results. Shot here on a Nikon Z5.

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I went out with my Voigtländer 35mm f1.4 Nokton Classic VM lens on my Sony A7III a couple days ago and I have to say, it's magic! It's a lens that never disappoints me.

Even though I have quite a few M-mount lenses, and I enjoy using all of them... the 35mm f1.4 Classic is the only one I really need.

All the best,
MIke

 

[Leon C]

I'm a glutton for punishment, it could turn out a little gem.....Or not! 😉

Stuck open aperture and some lovely fungus on the front, it's not been opened before looking at the screws, whilst not rare, good Nikon ones in the UK are not £17!

 

[oldhaven]

Continuing my latest interest in Japanese rangefinders, over the past few months I have put together this collection of bits for an Aires Viscount. The camera works great and I was told it was serviced by Gass a few years ago. It came with the Kenji half case. The Viscount is designed to also use a 90mm tele lens so I looked for and found one. Best find was an Aires light meter and amplifier. I found these separately, sold as inoperative, with incident light attachments, and happily in the meter box were instructions. I was surprised to find that the meter and amplifier work fine, and are accurate against my cold shoe light meter. I have a roll of film in at the lab now, but don’t expect any problems. I haven’t tried the tele yet. The EV coupled shutter takes some getting used to, but working with an Iskra makes good training, and it gets intuitive after a while.



Here are the meter and amplifier mounted. A cell phone app it’s not

 

[shawn]

I have been on a hunt for the rumored 35mm FOV Voigtlander Kontur off and on for years. I just stumbled across this one. This is different from other Konturs I have or have seen. The metal frame looks thinner, the screws are centered, not on the outside edge of the frame. The frame lines also go to the outer edges on the sides and look like they take up much more of the vertical space too.

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Likely going to be disappointed again but fingers crossed.

The Kontur arrived. I didn’t jinx myself! It is most definitely 35mm fov and matches up very well with the viewfinder app.

Interestingly, the framelines are orange on this Kontur, not white. Eye position is pretty critical or the effect fails at bit on the sides.

 

[Bbsteinle]

Vitomatic IIa from shopgoodwill. Looked to be cosmetically immaculate from the photos, but when it arrived, found the finder is totally blurred out. Arrggh! Well, it’s too nice to not get it fixed….meter seems to work.

The prognosis came back on the Vitomatic: Unrepairable. Another crapshoot lost on shopgoodwill….but it was so beautiful….