What have you just BOUGHT?

This week, I bought a B+W 22.5mm ND2 filter for my Petri Compact, now if my meter says f16 + 1/500, I can just set 1/250 and whack this on. It only cost me "£argh"! Wouldn't have been so bad, but the postage was "£Are you kidding?" I've also got a sigma ND4. Now I just need a Green and a Yellow-Green to go with my 3 other colour filters and my UV.

Hmmm, I wonder if gas will make me also get a 22.5mm skylight filter, just to give me the option of a slightly warmer image than the UV will give?

And what about all the colour-conversion filters? I ruddy well hope not, lol.
 
ChrisPlatt said:
Simple - Just check felt with finger before reloading cassette.

If you are getting sand in your closed camera you've got bigger problems.

Chris
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Agree. Sand in the felt is hardly unique to reloaded cassettes. It can happen if you don't pay attention, but it's more the felt degradation to worry about.

Dante
 
Just received a new scanner, the Epson Perfection V600 Photo. I researched this scanner in a couple of forums and found some contributors were negative on it. The biggest problem seemed to be with the setup. I'm 78 and had it up and running on Apple OS in several hours. I tested it with a color photo and was surprised that, without any tweaking, very nice. Looking forward to scanning my 35 and 120 films.
 
An excellent condition Konica II with 50mm f/2.8 Hexanon. Cost about the same as two rolls of 36exp TriX.

I'm waiting on a pre-WWII Smith-Corona "Standard" 2C (speedline version).

Phil Forrest
 
Just bought a Viso I, bellows I, 135mm Hektor and case. No idea why or what I'm going to do with it, but it was so cool and the price was right that I couldn't resist. Also can't find any info on this kit. Nothing in my 1947 Leica Manual.
 
Gaumont Spido 9x12cm glass plate camera, circa 1897, just arrived and is (hopefully!) ready to go.

It needed a little bit of TLC that I hadn't planned on doing - the wood got damaged in transit (see that matte-black finished area on the left side of the front panel), so I glued and wood-filled it. I have to match the finish a bit better, but other than that everything appears to be okay. Fortunately I have some 9x12 glass plates and can load them out to test the camera out.

One of the things I like about this camera is who made it - Gaumont was the first film (as in motion picture) company, founded in 1895, and is still around in one form today (they've produced a number of Netflix productions, movies etc). Gustave Eiffel was the president of the company (yes that Eiffel!) and Leon Gaumont was the manager. The company was named after Gaumont because Eiffel was the subject of a 'national scandal' having to do with the Panama Canal. On another note, the first female director, Alice Guy-Blaché, worked for Gaumont and made her first film in 1896. So needless to say this is a camera from an historically-important organization!


Gaumont Spido2 by Vince Lupo, on Flickr
 
Thanks guys - actually the lens is in pretty nice shape, I don't think I need to clean it at all. I did add a couple of drops of oil into the pneumatic cylinder to help slow the shutter down, though I'll likely end up using it on 'bulb' most of the time. One thing I do need to do is to figure out what the aperture settings are -- the settings are 0.4, 0.5, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 and 32. I think there's an online Spido instruction manual in French and it does explain what those settings are.

EDIT -- I found the instruction manual (all 45 pages of it!) and the numbers above represent the following aperture settings: 6.3, 7, 8, 10, 14, 20, 28, 40 and 56. The lens is a 133mm f/6.3 Zeiss Protar made by E.Krauss.
 
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