What have you just BOUGHT?

Could not resist a good looking F3 on the Goodwill site. Though it was marked "shutter does not fire, for parts or repair only", I felt like it would be worth a $60 gamble...and it was!

I received it today. The self-timer switch was on, and the power switch was off (and stiff). Self timer turned off, power switch turned on and new batteries installed - "click" All it needs now is a Jon Goodman foam kit, and we're off and snapping! There's some brassing around the eyepiece, but it looks only slightly used and very well taken care of.
 
I hit the motherlode:

Zone VI Tachihara 4x5 camera body with manual
Schneider-Kreuznach Symmar 150mm-5.6/265mm-12 convertible lens in Synchro-Compur shutter on Zone VI lensboard
Calumet Caltar-S II 210mm-5.6 lens in Copal No. 1 shutter on Zone VI lensboard
Zone VI modified Soligor Spot Sensor II light meter with leather holster with manual
Gossen Super Pilot handheld light meter
Zone VI B&W viewing filter on cord
Tiffen circular rubber lens hood
Mamiya RB67 square rubber lens hood
Prontor plastic cable release
pocket fold-out magnifying glass
Kopil self-timer cable release attachment
Kodak Master Photoguide
Zone VI Field Data Guide with spare guidesheet pack
Model release sheet pack
Kodak Wratten gelatin filter, No. 47B
Kodak Wratten gelatin filter, No. 38A
Kodak Wratten gelatin filter, No. 25
Kodak Wratten gelatin filter, No. 8
Kodak Wratten gelatin filter, No. 61
Kodak Wratten gelatin filter, No. 96 ND 0.30
Soligor 77mm glass circular polarizing filter
Prinz 77mm glass G filter
Prinz 62mm glass circular polarizing filter
Hoya 62mm glass Y(K2) filter
Ambico The Shade+ filter holder
Ambico The Shade+ 58mm adapter ring
Ambico The Shade+ 49mm adapter ring
Polaroid 4x5 instant film back
2 2¼x3¼” sheet film holders
15 4x5” sheet film holders
Zone VI white imitation leather padded case
10¼x14¼x5” aluminum hard case
lens brush
bubble level
homemade darkcloth
lens spanner
cardboard mask for rollfilm back

All for $600! My credit card is still reeling, but I was shown this at my local camera store and had to jump on that deal while I could get it! The camera is in rather immaculate condition, too.
 
Voigtlander Bessa R with case and a Voigtlander 50mm Color Skopar 2.5 for $350 shipped. Will keep the lens and sell the camera.
 
Well, I just finished a trade with another RFF member...his mint Zeiss Sonnar for my Mint last series Elmarit 90.... it worked out to be a win-win for both of us. So far any time I have done a trade with a RFF member it has been a great experience. This is now my third trade. Sonnar now goes on my M5.
 
A 46mm screw-in cylindrical hood for my 25mm f/1.4 DG-Summilux. Lovely lens but the stock hood is huge, scares small children, and has a nasty habit of blocking the focus-assist light on my Olympus E-PM1.
 
90mm Summarit. Used, but unnoticeably so. I'll never get the APO 90mm Summicron, I'm resigned to that.

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Here it is, the M4 MOT in ugly condition. I have wanted an original black-paint M4 for some time, I was lucky enough to find this one cheap. The paint is crap, but there are no dents, it operates as smooth as silk, and the L seal is still intact. I am debating restoring it or leaving it as is. It's wearing a Nokton 50/1.5 lens, one of my favorite performers.

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Pentax Q with the standard lens + VF and the shorter zoom. I have no real need for it but the idea of shooting the moon with a 300mm attached to the Q just seems like something worth trying.

On the RF end, a 50mm collapsible for my Canon II-F.
 
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