What have you just BOUGHT?

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Rodagon APO 150mm enlarging lens, 4 x1 gallon boxes Sprint fixer, 4x1 gallon boxes Sprint stop bath, 4 x1 gallon boxes of Sprint fixer remover ... and.. 3x50 sheet boxes of 20x24 inch Ilford Warm Tone Semi-matte
 
I've indulged my irrational fascination with 110 cameras. I got a Hanimex VEF Zoom and a Fisher-Price Camera by Kodak. Why? Even I don't know....


Scott
 
Last week: Leotax F camera :) My first bottom loader. I decided to keep it, although the slow shutter speeds are dragging.

This week: I didn't want to buy a camera again, but I saw a good deal for a Carl Zeiss 135mm 2.8 Sonnar lens on another photography forum... Then, the seller offered me also a Contax RTS for a really good price - sometimes you can't say no! :angel:
 
What I bought....

What I bought....

This week I picked up a Konica IIIA, will have to send it off for a cleaning and adjustment. I can wait a week or two more....
 
Last week an OM1. Seems it has a problem, shutter will not cock when advancing film---then the shutter will fire and everything resets. Anyway, it came with a 50 1.4 and a 28 3.5. I figured I came even out even. I already own a bunch of Olympus lenses, and didn't need these, but more can't hurt.
 
jwc57 said:
Didn't buy'em, but given to me by a co-worker. Leica Photography magazines from the early fifties. Leica and Rollei hardbound manuals from the fifties. A binder with Nikon F and Nikkormat newsletters from the late sixties. Bunch of other photography books from the 70s thru 90s.

They belonged to his late father inlaw. I haven't had much of a chance to do anything other than thumb through them, but what an inspiring set of books and magazines. I don't own a Leica, Rollei, or Nikon. I can see it in my future though.
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This same guy gave me a plastic tub with a bunch of "stuff" that his father inlaw (a dentist) had....seems the old guy loved photography. Inside the tub are old camera straps (70's mod), a Nikon 200mm F4, a Konica Motor with an 85mm lens attached, an old Poloraid sonar, a couple of bake-lite 120s from the fifties.....and at the bottom...Leicas.

I don't know exactly what they are...IIc? All but one are in really good shape. There are two collapsible 503.5s and a 90mm. There is one camera with a 5cm finder on the accessory shoe---and a 28mm viewfinder in a casse. The oddest camera is a black Leica with a rangefinder on top. The leatherette fell apart in my hands when I picked it up, though most of it was held together with electrical tape.

At any rate, I've become a Leica owner.


I tried today to convince him that I owed him something...anything, but his wife wanted him to take them to Goodwill and he thought someone who appreciated cameras would put them to use.

Also today, he says "somewhere in the house" is a metal box with Leica lenses in it. If he can find it, he'll give that to me.
 
In an unstoppable buying craze, I'm going to have another Zorki 4 commemorative of the 50th anniversary of the 1917 revolution (so made in 1967) but this one has a long inscribed dedication to someone in Russian. And then a couple of misterious LF folders, both sharing the gorgeously beautiful B&L Unicum shutter. One of them is clearly a Houghton Ensign rollfilm camera, the other one is a 9x12 plate folder of unknown origin. Maybe, just maybe it could be a Krügener or a Bülter
 
I bought an Ensign Selfix 16-20:

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It seems to be working properly and no fungus. I wasn't going to get another Ensign after my previous ones, but I decided I wanted a 6x4.5 and I thought I ought to have at least one Brit camera.
 
carbo73 said:
My first 4x5' large format, a Graflex Crown Graphic, the old style model with side Kalart rangefinder.
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I hope you enjoy it. I have a Crown too. Its my 2nd 4x5, but its my first "portable" 4x5 camera. I pretend its a bona-fide field camera ;)

You'll find that it's a rather capable camera. I hope you got a lens with that thing :eek:

I have a 135mm and a 150mm to use on mine. Both work great, but I don't use the RF (I know it has a cam). But what I really want is a wide-angle lens.... I hear that you can use a 90mm lens on the Crown with little-to-no problem. I hope so. There are some 90 lenses (older ones) that are compact enough to stay on the camera when you close it up. I think one is the Caltar, perhaps one or both of the Angulon/Super-Angulons. And I think I saw an older cute-as-a-button Fuji 90mm lens that would be perfect :).
 
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