What have you just BOUGHT?

I bought a Petri Compact half-frame camera:

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Woohoo, this'll be the 10,001st reply to this thread! First off, I really like using a camera to scan negatives, so much so I have no idea of how much I've spent on different setups. Lately, my beloved Skier Copybox has developed the annoying habit of shutting itself off at random times. Part of me says, it's just a loose connection a bigger part of me says, I see where this road is going. About a year ago I decided to help out the Negative Supply guys and bought a Pro Riser MK2 copy stand with the upgrade to adjustable feet. When the Skier started showing problems, I ordered a Carrier MK1 in 35mm and the hood to prevent stray light from entering. I was looking at light sources, then made the mistake of watching a Negative Supply video. Their 5X7 box comes set up to accept the Pro Mount MK2 plate so some more money to Negative supply for a 5X7 Pro Light Source 95 and the Pro Mount plate. The carrier arrived today and I started fiddling around with it. After trying a few things, the most important was my Nikkor 55 Micro-Nikkor 2.8 Ai-S mounted to a Sony A7II is far too short a focal length to take advantage of all of the features of the Carrier MK1, like not really being able to use the borderless guides because my lens was almost on top of the negative at 1:1. Two choices, first was to buy a APS Sony and gain working distance that way or a DX Nikon for the same thing. Number two, the one I have been trying to avoid, get the Sony 90 2.8 Macro I should have gotten in the first place, gaining not only distance in a longer focal length but autofocus as well.. By the time everything arrives, it should be the scanning nirvana I have been seeking. Or like most equipment, another learning experience.
 
135mm f2 AIS Nikkor, to go with the other three manual focus AIS lenses I'm using on both a digital Df and film Nikon F2AS, 35mm f1.4, 18mm f3.5 and 85mm f1.4.
 
I finally scored a 16x20 easel (after a year of looking.)
Now I'm saving for big trays and paper, plus figuring out WTH to do with such big prints!
 
Have had two parcels arrive in two days, both cameras and both of a similar theme though made 40 years apart....... The first, a Nikonos 1V-a came from Japan via Ebay. Described as Mint but for the life of me I can't see any sign it has ever been used. Put a couple of LR44 batteries in and all is working perfectly. This was an irrational purchase because it will never be used for the purpose intended knowing my dislike of the water. In fact so much so I wouldn't even wash except it's deemed to be socially unacceptable not to. However I've always been intrigued by these cameras and being of an age where I can buy things not because I need them but because I want them, well why the heck not...... The second camera is an Olympus TG-6 also an underwater camera. This will be used on my multi day hiking trips. I gave up carrying film cameras when I drowned my Leica M6 on a river crossing went wrong whilst hiking in New Zealand a decade ago and have used little digital cameras since, a couple of Micro Four Thirds and a Fuji X10. But none of these are waterproof and I always panic around water. This should allow me to overcome those fears....Any way it's time to load up the Nikonos with some Tri X or FP4 and give it a trial run.
 
Hari said:
coogee: which 16x20 easel? Is it single
size or adjustable?
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Hi Hari. A 4-blade Saunders one. Not the V-Track (it might be 10 years if I waited for one of those!) but this one is good and just fits my Durst M70 baseboard.
 

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madNbad said:
Woohoo, this'll be the 10,001st reply to this thread! First off, I really like using a camera to scan negatives, so much so I have no idea of how much I've spent on different setups. ... About a year ago I decided to help out the Negative Supply guys and bought a Pro Riser MK2 copy stand with the upgrade to adjustable feet. When the Skier started showing problems, I ordered a Carrier MK1 in 35mm and the hood to prevent stray light from entering. I was looking at light sources, then made the mistake of watching a Negative Supply video. ...
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.. and on it goes. :D

I have the Negative Supply pro mount and 120 carrier: super quality but expensive. Couple of light sources I have work fine with them already, and I have Nikkor 55, Leitz 60 and 100mm macro lenses (and Leitz Focusing Bellows R) for capture to both Leica CL and Hasselblad 907x bodies. For 35mm negs and Polaroid prints the CL's 24 Mpixel is enough, but I like to use the Hassy for 645 and 6x6 negs. I use a Novoflex Magic copy stand. For 35mm film, the Essential Film Holder works fine and is much less expensive than the NS.

But as to what I just bought, I decided that I preferred the leather skins on my other Polaroid SX-70 variants more than the titanium skin on the SLR670x Ming camera so I've sent the SLR670x off to MiNT for re-skinning in genuine black leather. While it's mostly a cosmetically driven thing, the feel of the camera is much nicer with the leather and gives me a better grip on it, IMO.

The re-skin will include a camera check up to be sure it's all in perfect order. Might as well, I use that camera a lot. :)

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Hi coogee! Great easel, I had one in my color lab.
Now I've got the single size. Saunders made two
styles of single 16x20, one in which you slide the
paper in from the short size, and the one which I
got with a hinge at the 20 inch size and a clasp
on the other side. But I've also got the 12x16"
Leitz easel which just fits the Focomat.
 
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I just received my annual quota of film - 10 per year. With the lockdown and staying at home most of the time, my previous order of 10 films lasted for 2 years!

When I ordered them I realised that I hadn't ordered any film before Brexit - this time all film offers were up by £10-£15 compared to two years ago.

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analoged said:
Sorry Fransisco, this is that lens! Wouldn't thought I would ever owe this one, my first R zoom lens! Need to try it on the R7 with some film.
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Glad to make your acquaintance!! On the one hand I was a bit frustrated I didn't win the lens, but on the other it was a relief. And I ended up pulling the trigger anyway! :cool: :) :p
 
madNbad said:
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Ah, I see.

Umm do I get a prize for posting the 10,000 reply? :D
 
seany65 said:

Ah, I see.

Umm do I get a prize for posting the 10,000 reply? :D
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madNbad said:
Come back in 21 post and find out.:)
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But I've already done it? In your post after the one in which I posted a pic my Petri camera, you wrote:

"Woohoo, this'll be the 10,001st reply to this thread..."

Then I wrote:

"Huh? I don't get it, the post No. for your post is "9962"?"

You:

"The count next to the thread title on the homepage is the total count of submission without deletions. The running count within the thread will use posting numbers again after a post has been deleted."

So that means I must already have made the 10,000th post, but then you wrote the post I quoted first in this post.

Hmm, are you an agent of chaos and confusion sent by the aliens to mess with our heads?:confused::D
 
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