What have you just BOUGHT?

Just bought a 16mm f3.5 Nikkor full frame Fisheye. It’s the first full frame fisheye that Nikon made. It turns out the one I bought is number 22 from the last Nikon made.
 
The birthday fairy brought me a Canon EF-M 22mm f/2 STM lens for my EOS M50. Super excited to get out and play with it!
 
A piece of plastic drainpipe!?

Sawn to length, glued to a second-hand 55mm filter (£1) with the glass removed, and it’s a lens hood for the f1.2 Canon, and all for about 1/100th the eBay price of the original equipment.
 

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Bought ---> Jena Contax w/ 50/2

Sold ---> R7, 35/28 R, 60/2.8 R, 90/2.8 R, pre-war Super Ikonta B, Contarex Special + 50/2.8, Contax II ('39), Contax III ('36). All the Zeiss stuff needed service.
 
Over the summer ...

Bought ---> Contax II + 50/2 (1935, Z SN), some IXMOO's, 35mm Summicron 8-element replica, 35mm Summicron M (type 3), 35mm Summicron R (type 2), bulk loads Fomapan and Orwo, Contax II ('37, from family original owner), Contax II ('39), Contax III ('36), Contarex Special + 50/2.8, CZJ 50/1.5 ('36, '39), CZJ 50/2 ('36), CZJ 85/2 ('36). Most of the Zeiss stuff needed service. Ye serviced an M2.

Sold --- > Leica R6.2, Leicaflex SL (black paint), Super Ikonta IV, Voigtlander 35/2 Ultron, Nikkor LTM 50/2, Topcor 50/2 ltm, Canon 50/1.5 ltm.

Ha, ha, lots of impulse purchases this summer. Wonder if the pandemic had anything to do with it. Some of it is already getting resold.
 
:eek: jsrockit buys a Sony?

I thought film usage topping digital was more likely :p

Haha. I've used a few Sonys through the years A7R, A7II, A7RII... but this seems more my style. I had too many Fujis, so I wanted something different. :) I'll sell some Fujis to pay for it. This particular Sony, coupled with these new Sigma lenses with aperture rings, seem to have corrected some Sony gripes of mine.

I also bought a 4x5" View Camera recently... ;)
 
I have made a couple of purchases I am quite happy with. The first is a 300mm f4.5 Konica AR lens. It is really sweet, mint condition and the price was only $120 AUD (under $100 USD). It had been sitting around for quite a time unsold so the seller discounted it quite deeply for me if I took it that day. Which I did :) I have made a few shots with it and found it is an interesting option for a range of subjects. I even used it for some street shots. (See below at the bottom of this post.)

The second purchase made tonight was by happenstance - something I stumbled on without really looking or expecting. I have been carrying my previous Billingham Hadley original (large) for over 20 years pretty much on a daily basis. To the point where the canvass has the beginnings of a hole where it rubs against my hip and most of the leather trim has degraded and cracked. I toyed with the idea of having it repaired though I knew that it would cost probably between one and two hundred to bring it back more or less to spec. This one came up at $250 AUD on eBay from a local seller and is in extremely clean, almost mint condition though he says there is some minor wear. I figured it is well worth it given what new Hadleys go for.

My only query is whether it is the small one (it does look like a slightly smaller version of the original Hadley). But too late now!

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Street photo made with Konica 300mm 4.5 I ever so slightly missed focus (the subject was moving fast towards me so it was a matter of relying on focus peaking and luck). Still I like it.

Sometimes the Street is the Catwalk by Life in Shadows, on Flickr
 
wow, I didn't knew that one. A year ago I saw a dream :rolleyes:Ermanox in a web... together with it's price from Hell! :eek:

Got a roll in it now - we'll see how we do!

BTW I have my eye on an Ernemann Miniature Klapp 6x4.5 -- sorta like the precursor to the Ermanox. Big difference of course is the lens - 75/4.5 only.
 
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Street photo made with Konica 300mm 4.5 I ever so slightly missed focus (the subject was moving fast towards me so it was a matter of relying on focus peaking and luck). Still I like it.
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I like it, too. The slight softness and glow around the woman is really nice. The bokeh is equally pleasant and non-distracting.

nikonos 35mm f2.5 lens. ...

You’ll find that lens to be surprisingly sharp. I don’t know what magic spell Nikon put on it, but it’s my favorite 35mm lens.
 
Leica R 28-70 f3.5-4.5 ROM zoom lens. For some reason the seller (in Japan) offered it at a ridiculous price (below market here in the US). Now, it's home, attached to my new (to me) R8. ;)
 
A 1958 button rewind Leica M2, purchased from the son of the original owner.


A Nikkor 105mm F2.5 to go on the Nikkormat that my parents bought me as a 21st birthday present 46 years ago.
 
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