What have you just BOUGHT?

Another macro lens.
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a mamiya RB 67 with 250 and 90 mm
and a bottle of french red wine to celebrate...

I'm jealous! Of the camera, not the wine, unless it says Romanee Conti on the label. The RB67 was the first camera to get away from me. I saw it in the store, went to get the money, and by the time I returned, it was sold. I still want one, but I have had several other medium format cameras since, so the need is not so great now.
 
I just bought a hundred dollar camera body - this Bessa-L. Recently I bought a 15mm Voigtlander - the first version that is not rangefinder coupled, and it is LTM. I also got an adapter, so I mounted it on my M4P - and it worked fine. But it always felt like the rangefinder of the camera was going to waste. So today I got a finderless, modern LTM body, in other words, the Bessa-L. Now the lens and body match pretty well:

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Blik rangefinder from Ukraine (9 EUR incl shipping). I plan to use it on my scale focusing cameras...

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A Zeiss Ikon Nettar 512 camera, manufactured from 1937 to about 1940. The bellows and body look fine, and the shuuter speeds sound OK.
The lens is a Novar f4.5/75 mm.
This wee machine takes 16 pictures (2 1/4" x 1 3/4") on a 120 roll; a nice horizontal format for landscape, and a sweet vertical for portraits.
I paid $60 Cdn., and it came with a beat-up original leather case & the print manual. I also bought 5 rolls of out of date Tmax 100 120 film.

So analogue medium format - I'm back!😀
 
Another Canon beauty.

Congratulations. The Canon F-1 are beautiful cameras in both original and new versions. And the one pictured is in pristine condition. If I thought I was going to shoot film again seriously I am pretty sure this is the camera I would buy.

I have just put a deposit on a Leica Summicron 90mm f2 - the Canada version in black from the 1970s. I love that version although it is one hefty lens. I made a couple of shots using my M8 - enough to convince me it was well calibrated to the camera but I also plan to use it on my Olympus OM D EM5. I have a soft spot for big lenses (not sure why - masochist?) and for lenses with a bit of character. This lens has both. I also have a Tele-Elmarit 90mm f2.8 of the same era which to be honest is more functional (being tiny) and makes good images bit somehow its not the same as shooting with the Summicron.

This is a generic photo from the web. I will pick mine up perhaps as early as next week. Happy days!

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