What have you just BOUGHT?

I bought the Pentax Spotmeter V off auction site for a great price...Seller said it was from an estate sale and was selling it As Is...
Great price, I didn't really think twice and just bought it..
It works just fine...great readings so far...only thing missing was the case...I had to clean the battery holder so it would make decent contact and all is good.
Been wanting to try one for years...me happy...!!!
Serial number starts with a 79xxxx and I was trying to find a year it was made but haven't had any luck with that...



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I have the digital version of the Pentax spotmeter. A great little meter that has never let me down in the past 20+ years.
 
A very clean (and CLA'd) Rolleiflex F 75/3.5 Xenotar from Igor's Camera Exchange. Although I have purchased some small items from Igor in the past this is the first camera I bought. It was graded conservatively and works as a recently overhauled camera should. I would not hesitate to order from him again.
 
Igor is a good guy! Bought a 135mm Leica M lens from him that was very clean. Unloaded it 'cause its just not a RF length IMHO. But I'd deal with him any day of the week. Honest and fair. Jealous of the Rollei... pondered same mightily, but enjoying the 6008-Integral immensely. Every time I try to NOT love it, I fail. Afraid a Rolleiflex 28D Xenotar (which I'm "watching") would tempt me out of the SLR. Not sure it'd be small enough, so as a "travel" alternate for MF, chasing(?) a Voigtlander Perkeo II 'cause why not? And those Pentax spot meters are amazingly useful.
 
What have you just BOUGHT?

Nikkor 50/1.8 AI, the original so-called Japanese pancake version that was made with all metal barrel from 1980-82 and has MFD of 0.45cm. Just a wonderful gem for my FM3a. I also bought a FDn 100/2.8 yesterday from a Japanese eBay seller for a very good price. I want this to replace my FD 135/2.8 which I have found far too long for me for portrait use.
 
Just bought today a Soviet Zorki 4, "50 Years of Soviet Power" edition of 1967. Last year should had been the year to buy it but I didn't know of its existence. Now this camera should be 51 years old, half way to the 100 anniversary of the October 1917 revolution.
 
I just upgraded some darkroom gear:
Nikor tanks and reels to replace some very poor quality no-name stuff from the ‘80s
Two plastic Patterson reels
A couple of nice laboratory thermometers

I also replenished some chemicals and, of course, I bought more film!
 
Added some Lee Seven5 filters to fill some gaps in my existing kit (not available in Japan).

Reverse-Grad 0.6 ND
Reverse-Grad 0.9 ND
Soft Graduated 0.9 ND
Little Stopper 1.8 ND

... and ten rolls of Kodak Gold 200 (not available in Japan).

From B&H New York... DHL to Tokyo, great service...
Order placed 1:00 PM JST Thur 8-March
Pkg received 1:00 PM JST Mon 12-March
 
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