gabrielelopez
Established
In the last year I have mostly sold...sometimes the desire to buy something comes back, but I know now way too clearly that this pandemic trap makes me feel caged and a new toy makes me think that something is changing no more than for the first roll. Then the pictures reveal how foolish I've been.
I have a small kit now, FM2, FM and some lenses..perfect for my needs. I would buy a train ticket if touring around would not be a nightmare like it is now here.
I have a small kit now, FM2, FM and some lenses..perfect for my needs. I would buy a train ticket if touring around would not be a nightmare like it is now here.
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Congratulations Brooktaw! Nice find with that button rewind M2 ....& you can never go wrong with a 105/2.5!
Brooktaw
Established
Thanks Deardorff38
Here's the M2
You'll see there is a crack in the central Illumination screen but it is tight and you can't feel it with a fingernail. The camera had a CLA before it was put up for sale and the technician then said it was an irreplaceable part and causing no problem so I'm okay with leaving it.
Here is the Nikkor 105mm lense on the Nikkormat my parents gave me as a 21st birthday present 46 years ago!
I'm not much of a portrait photographer so still trying to work out how I might use this.
SolaresLarrave
My M5s need red dots!
I had to bring my work computer home to be in a zoom meeting because my mac wouldn't "share" a powerpoint presentation with zoom.
Set up the damn machine, decided to play around looking at used gear stores. Found a lens to replace (sad story) the Vario Elmar 28-70 recently acquired. The lens costs about $100 more, it's in CT, at the Classic Camera Connection store. Play a game of "what if I placed this in my shopping cart" followed by "what if I logged in Paypal Credit" and then "how much would they want me to pay per month?" and then the stupid computer reads my swiping as clicking and BOOOM! I become the owner of a mint Leica lens, in box, with papers, hood and everything.
Time to contact the fellows in Japan that they're getting back the lens I just purchased from them (which had some issues, by the way).
Set up the damn machine, decided to play around looking at used gear stores. Found a lens to replace (sad story) the Vario Elmar 28-70 recently acquired. The lens costs about $100 more, it's in CT, at the Classic Camera Connection store. Play a game of "what if I placed this in my shopping cart" followed by "what if I logged in Paypal Credit" and then "how much would they want me to pay per month?" and then the stupid computer reads my swiping as clicking and BOOOM! I become the owner of a mint Leica lens, in box, with papers, hood and everything.
Time to contact the fellows in Japan that they're getting back the lens I just purchased from them (which had some issues, by the way).
SolaresLarrave
My M5s need red dots!
Oh, and I also sent back the R8 mentioned above (electronics fried) only to turn around and purchase one from KEH. Camera comes next Tuesday (March 9) and lens on Wednesday (March 10).
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Brooktaw, that M2 looks very clean!
Phil_F_NM
Camera hacker
A goodwill lot that was described as "Lens adapter lot, various manufacturers".
What is really in the package are the following:
Schneider 420mm f/9.5 Apochromat (red dot) Artar
Osaka Commercial 150mm f/5.6
W-Nikkor 150mm f/5.6
Schneider Symmar-S (Unknown focal length)
Two 180mm f/4.7 Dyotar lenses
A couple Bower wide/tele lens diopters and some other bits.
I need to get a few shutters but that's peanuts in comparison to the hundreds of dollars in glass on the way.
One or more of these wide plasmats will be the optical part of my 6x18 I'm building on a torpedo camera film back.
Phil Forrest
What is really in the package are the following:
Schneider 420mm f/9.5 Apochromat (red dot) Artar
Osaka Commercial 150mm f/5.6
W-Nikkor 150mm f/5.6
Schneider Symmar-S (Unknown focal length)
Two 180mm f/4.7 Dyotar lenses
A couple Bower wide/tele lens diopters and some other bits.
I need to get a few shutters but that's peanuts in comparison to the hundreds of dollars in glass on the way.
One or more of these wide plasmats will be the optical part of my 6x18 I'm building on a torpedo camera film back.
Phil Forrest
zuiko85
Veteran
I’m 71 and just bought my third new lens. Almost every lens I’ve ever bought is used and usually in shall we say “cosmetically challenged” condition. That is where the bargains are.
However, for the price, just could not resist the TTArtisan 50mm f1.2 for my EM10.
A bit over a C note and change and my first impression is that it is usable. Seems solid enough, and nicely finished.
Wide open? About what you would expect with low contrast and gobs of false color. Maybe ok for B&W portraiture. Stop down to f2 and it cleans up quite a bit.
But what is it about Chinese manual focus lenses!? They just cannot get the printed focus and DoF scales anywhere near right. Even when you shim the mount to infinity the rest of the scale is way off. And the depth of field scale? The one on this lens would be right only if you were allowing about a 7th of a millimeter as a circle of confusion. Way off!
However, for the price, just could not resist the TTArtisan 50mm f1.2 for my EM10.
A bit over a C note and change and my first impression is that it is usable. Seems solid enough, and nicely finished.
Wide open? About what you would expect with low contrast and gobs of false color. Maybe ok for B&W portraiture. Stop down to f2 and it cleans up quite a bit.
But what is it about Chinese manual focus lenses!? They just cannot get the printed focus and DoF scales anywhere near right. Even when you shim the mount to infinity the rest of the scale is way off. And the depth of field scale? The one on this lens would be right only if you were allowing about a 7th of a millimeter as a circle of confusion. Way off!
carbo73
Well-known
A c.1964 Zeiss Ikon Contarex, a kind of swan song of this former German photograpy giant. The Nikon F1 killed it.
It weights a ton and feels more complex than the Apollo 11, even being older and not bringing you to the Moon. I've managed to take some pictures with it, but coupling film advance problems with being scared to broke this ultra-complex machinery makes it's use not quite pleasant. It's gorgeously spectacular in the shelf, anyway!
ContaREX by SBA73, en Flickr
Hubris fotogràfica / Photographic hubris by SBA73, en Flickr
35mm intercanviable / Interchangeable 35mm backs by SBA73, en Flickr
It weights a ton and feels more complex than the Apollo 11, even being older and not bringing you to the Moon. I've managed to take some pictures with it, but coupling film advance problems with being scared to broke this ultra-complex machinery makes it's use not quite pleasant. It's gorgeously spectacular in the shelf, anyway!
ContaREX by SBA73, en FlickrHubris fotogràfica / Photographic hubris by SBA73, en Flickr35mm intercanviable / Interchangeable 35mm backs by SBA73, en Flickr
Ambro51
Collector/Photographer
Think of the camera as an Elephant Gun. You can appreciate the beauty and power of the thing Without hunting needing to hunt Elephants..
valdas
Veteran
hap
Well-known
sounds like you are making progress lifting out of that funk. Keep it going.
Vince Lupo
Whatever
After 31 years of thinking about this camera, I thought the time was finally right....
Not Yet But Soon by Vince Lupo, on Flickr
It will probably be at least a month before it lands on my doorstep, and then it's straight off to be overhauled (including new shutter curtains). It's the early model with the 100/2 Ernostar - Holy Grail camera indeed.
Not Yet But Soon by Vince Lupo, on Flickr
It will probably be at least a month before it lands on my doorstep, and then it's straight off to be overhauled (including new shutter curtains). It's the early model with the 100/2 Ernostar - Holy Grail camera indeed.
Vince Lupo
Whatever
Kodak Vest Pocket by Vince Lupo, on Flickr
Kodak Vest Pocket Autographic, circa 1915-1917. Came with its leather case with a wonderful inscription. A bit of internet sleuthing and I discovered the following info:
Private Elof A. Ericson, Red Wing, Minnesota, Company L, 3rd Regt, stationed at Camp Cody, Deming, New Mexico, enlisted July 10, 1917, died of his wounds October 1918.
The shutter needed a good soaking in lighter fluid, and everything else needed a general cleanup. Works like a champ and ready for duty again.
Erik van Straten
Veteran
I bought this one (a leica 1a from 1928) two or three years ago, but how it works now!
Erik.
Vince Lupo
Whatever
A gentleman's camera kit indeed 
1909 Goerz Vest Pocket Tenax, arrived from England today. 4.5x6cm glass plate camera, owned by (I think!) Isaac Henry Storey, who was part of the well-known Storey family of Lancaster. They produced oilcloth and table baize, and became one of the largest employers in Lancaster by the end of the 19th century.
This kit came with 19 plate holders, one film pack holder (no longer useable due to the film packs no longer being available), and a beautiful roll film back that unfortunately is no longer useable (takes Kodak 102 film, which was discontinued in 1933). But the glass plate holders are still fully useable, so all is not lost! The kit also came with this lovely leather case by Finnegans of Manchester (a luxury goods supplier at the beginning of the 20th century). Finally, a Wynne's Infallible light meter rounds out this lovely camera set.
The camera works fine and the lens is in good shape. I do need to do some repair work on the leather case, but other than that (and ordering the glass plates and potentially donning my Tweeds) this kit is ready to go.
Goerz by Vince Lupo, on Flickr
1909 Goerz Vest Pocket Tenax, arrived from England today. 4.5x6cm glass plate camera, owned by (I think!) Isaac Henry Storey, who was part of the well-known Storey family of Lancaster. They produced oilcloth and table baize, and became one of the largest employers in Lancaster by the end of the 19th century.
This kit came with 19 plate holders, one film pack holder (no longer useable due to the film packs no longer being available), and a beautiful roll film back that unfortunately is no longer useable (takes Kodak 102 film, which was discontinued in 1933). But the glass plate holders are still fully useable, so all is not lost! The kit also came with this lovely leather case by Finnegans of Manchester (a luxury goods supplier at the beginning of the 20th century). Finally, a Wynne's Infallible light meter rounds out this lovely camera set.
The camera works fine and the lens is in good shape. I do need to do some repair work on the leather case, but other than that (and ordering the glass plates and potentially donning my Tweeds) this kit is ready to go.
Goerz by Vince Lupo, on Flickr
Vince Lupo
Whatever
The camera of cameras has arrived!
Ermanox1 by Vince Lupo, on Flickr
Ermanox2 by Vince Lupo, on Flickr
Ermanox3 by Vince Lupo, on Flickr
Ermanox4 by Vince Lupo, on Flickr
Ermanox5 by Vince Lupo, on Flickr
It's been a dream camera of mine for the last 31 years -- when I interviewed Alfred Eisenstaedt back in 1990 in his tiny office on the 28th floor of the Time Life Building in NYC, he and I discussed this camera (I mentioned to him that I had seen one at 28th Street Photo and he was excited to talk about it). I've thought about this camera ever since. This particular example is the early version with the 100/2 Ernostar, so about 1924.
It's heading off for repair/overhaul -- the shutter curtains need replacing and the whole camera needs to be gone through, but I intend to put this camera to good use!
Ermanox1 by Vince Lupo, on Flickr
Ermanox2 by Vince Lupo, on Flickr
Ermanox3 by Vince Lupo, on Flickr
Ermanox4 by Vince Lupo, on Flickr
Ermanox5 by Vince Lupo, on Flickr
It's been a dream camera of mine for the last 31 years -- when I interviewed Alfred Eisenstaedt back in 1990 in his tiny office on the 28th floor of the Time Life Building in NYC, he and I discussed this camera (I mentioned to him that I had seen one at 28th Street Photo and he was excited to talk about it). I've thought about this camera ever since. This particular example is the early version with the 100/2 Ernostar, so about 1924.
It's heading off for repair/overhaul -- the shutter curtains need replacing and the whole camera needs to be gone through, but I intend to put this camera to good use!
lxmike
M2 fan.
Nikkor 24mm f2.8 af to put on an old F801
Andrea Taurisano
il cimento
A poor man's Elmar for my Leicas: an Industar-22 50mm 3.5. Now the question is, how good a sample will I get on a scale from "absolutely terrible" to "surprisingly good? (my Easter egg surprise I guess..)
zuiko85
Veteran
A can of argon, we will see if it stops the deterioration of my paper developer concentrate.
Not very exciting, but may solve a vexing problem for those of us that don’t print very often.
Not very exciting, but may solve a vexing problem for those of us that don’t print very often.