OFFICIAL I HAVE A NEW (FILM RELATED) TOY THREAD!!

The GA645 delivers excellent results and is really compact/light for a medium format camera. The only reason I sold mine was because I found it a little too uninvolved as it's pretty much an aperture priority point and shoot. However, the lens is fantastic :0)
 
jojo90 said:
New toys since last posted...

Rolleiflex 3.5F Planar
Hasselblad Xpan + 45mm & 90mm
Contax G2 + 45mm
Olympus XA
Jobo CPE2 + bits
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Bl**dy hell..... did you win the lottery... :D

Andy
 
jojo90 said:
New toys since last posted...

Rolleiflex 3.5F Planar
Hasselblad Xpan + 45mm & 90mm
Contax G2 + 45mm
Olympus XA
Jobo CPE2 + bits
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That's proper full on GAS, looking forward to seeing some shots from your new toys.
 
Andysnap said:
Bl**dy hell..... did you win the lottery... :D

Andy
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Nope, but i got some great deals...

Rolleiflex : £375
Nr Mint Xpan + 45 : £850, 90mm : £200. These are usually 1400+
Contax : £650 (but its boxed and nr mint)
CPE2...... : £30 :)... usually £150-250
 
jojo90 said:
Nope, but i got some great deals...

Rolleiflex : £375
Nr Mint Xpan + 45 : £850, 90mm : £200. These are usually 1400+
Contax : £650 (but its boxed and nr mint)
CPE2...... : £30 :)... usually £150-250
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Good deals maybe but I think @Andysnap 's question stands.
 
RaglanSurf said:
Good deals maybe but I think @Andysnap 's question stands.
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lol, no I didn't win the lottery... but I'm not married, have no kids, and my girlfriend doesn't care what I spend cash on...

so in some ways maybe I have won the lottery ;).

I'm also going to be listing a lot of my digital gear for sale soon, will roughly cancel out what I've spent, film seems way more fun to shoot with!

RaglanSurf said:
That's proper full on GAS, looking forward to seeing some shots from your new toys.
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Sure...
Rolleiflex :

Moochin around Center Parcs by _Jo Gray, on Flickr


First Shots on MF by _Jo Gray, on Flickr

Xpan :

First shots on the Hasselblad XPAN I by _Jo Gray, on Flickr


First shots on the Hasselblad XPAN I by _Jo Gray, on Flickr

G2 :

Moochin around Center Parcs by _Jo Gray, on Flickr
 
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You know when sometime you feel unlucky with ebay...

I had a few bid on ebay a couple of weeks ago to buy lens for my Broniqa Sq system:
-I bid 67£ on a bronica 150mm f/4 but it went for 71£
-I bid 92£ on a bronica 50mm f/3.5 but it went for 94£

Then a week later I put a bid on an Olympus OM-4 with 50mm f/1.4 putting down 135£ put and it went for 141£
I was a bit gutted but to be honest these were only to fulfil a bit of GAS and I'm not specially ready to spend money at the moment.

So because I wasn't finished with ebay! I bought a hoya 200mm f/3.5 to go on my om1. By it know this time no waiting for the auction to finish. It costed me a huge 24£ delivered. I don't know anything about these lens and it might be really crap at that price, the Olympus model seems to be around 100£. But at least it will take me out of the house for trying it out! I hope it's coming before the weekend I have a family weekend and planning on taking the om with me! And a roll of superia 1600iso which should make me get some fast enough shutter speed.
 
If it makes you feel better, the way Ebay works is that it automatically bids up to your highest offer whenever other bids come in. In actual fact, the other buyers could have bid £1000 for each lens as soon as the auction started(although not likely!) and if you'd kept bidding you could have missed them for £999 so I wouldn't feel too bad for missing out on them :0)
 
stevelmx5 said:
If it makes you feel better, the way Ebay works is that it automatically bids up to your highest offer whenever other bids come in. In actual fact, the other buyers could have bid £1000 for each lens as soon as the auction started(although not likely!) and if you'd kept bidding you could have missed them for £999 so I wouldn't feel too bad for missing out on them :0)
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Yes I know. I also recently bid on a mixed bag of 5 rolls of 120 film. Instead of my intended 9.75£ +3£ delivery, I typed in 75£... Well... I got 5 rolls for 16.5£ including delivery which I wasn't ready to pay but it could have gone much worth :-/

For film item and impulse buy my method is to "put a small bid and never come back to it". So sometimes it go through and sometime it don't. That's the only way to make reel bargains...

If I really want/need I might be there on the screen till the last second...
 
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stevelmx5 said:
No problem, just thought you might not have realised and wanted to help with your disappointment :0)
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Thanks steve, I'm a bit of a ebay trawler from time to time. I don't like much shopping and living in Orkney there's no much specialised shop around so Ebay is my outside world connection ;-). Would love to find a cheap pentax 645n too some day!
 
You may not have any specialist shops but you do have ORKNEY.... jammy b*gger. :D
 
joxby said:
To let it settle ??

Anyway, so I ordered my stuff yesterday (Sat) from SilverPrint, so lets see what goes down with that.
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Silverprint tried to deliver today between 11 and 12 but........hurrr.......our lass snapped her key off in the front door lock while I was at work, couldn't get in so went to her mums, so there was nobody in...damit :/

rescheduled for tomorrow
 
joxby said:
Silverprint tried to deliver today between 11 and 12 but........hurrr.......our lass snapped her key off in the front door lock while I was at work, couldn't get in so went to her mums, so there was nobody in...damit :/

rescheduled for tomorrow
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How inconsiderate that they didnt divert to her mums :p

Anyway does your lass not recognise thé importance of these deliveries.....delays can cause a tog to go wappy......you need to have her trained in future to sit on thé doorstep regardless of weather / commitments or incidents.......running off to mums indeed :D :D:D
 
Inconsiderate ?....definitely, she should have told them she was gonna bust the door lock and made alternative arrangements, I don't feel having no clue a delivery was due is any kind of excuse, you're right she should have sat there from 9:30 till 2:00.........just in case !..........thoughtlessness, that's all it is.
aaaand there's the not so small matter of the busted door lock
 
joxby said:
there's the not so small matter of the busted door lock
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......which means tonight your sleeping ....








.....at mums!!!!!!:eek:::eek::D


I'd take my chances in thé garden shed tbh:D:D:D
 
Bought a Pentax LX from Mr Cad today... got it home and it's got a really sticky shutter. Full service my arse. Taking it back tomorrow...
 
mothdust said:
Bought a Pentax LX from Mr Cad today... got it home and it's got a really sticky shutter. Full service my arse. Taking it back tomorrow...
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Bummer!! .....not a pleasant surprise.:(
 
OK, been bad! I seem to now have a Leica CL with a 40mm Rokkor-M when my credit card accidentally fell out of my wallet while visiting Camerabase in Edinburgh; the man grabbed it and made me put my pin in! For once they weren't over-priced, and I got a 12-month warranty, so nothing to stop me doing my OC/OL/OF/OY now!

(PS I've already apologised to Shane already for not buying his; logistical reasons were part of the issue. SWMBO was in Glasgow today, so this one has so far flown under the radar...)
 
No worries on my part. :)

That camera setup will do you proud. Now get out and take some pictures, dag 'nam it!

(Me thinks my card will be used soon too - I was looking at M5s - hence selling my CL kit, but now choosing between two mint M6 Classics I've had a look at - one black , one panda...... damn decisions).

Cheers,
Shane :)
 
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ChrisR said:
... Camerabase in Edinburgh ... For once they weren't over-priced, and I got a 12-month warranty ...
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Oh dear, I hope they aren't ill. ;)

Congrats, Chris, looking forward to seeing how you get on with it. Have you chosen a film for your OCOL?
 
To be honest, I think I dodged a bullet - they didn't even object when I took it back. I had my best complaining hat on as well, was ready to argue, but no. I think I'm better off sticking with the ME Super for the time being anyway - the LX is quite a bit heavier, and I think it'd annoy me, carrying it round all day. Ah well!
 
I gave a visit to a friend to ask for him to use is changing bag, to get a broken film out of my camera. We did manage to get the film out safely and then he told me that since we developed a black and white film together almost a year ago he hadn't take one picture and he was selling all is expensive camera equipment. In another hand he handed me a Nikon camera, the changing bag and all his black and white developing kit! All of this for nothing, i even had some beer in my bag but because he is in the middle of a "no alcohol" month he refused them.

The camera is a Nikon L35 full auto (auto shutter speed, auto aperture (i think?), auto-focus, auto winding film mechanism). It has a 35mm f/2 lens which taken filter and the light meter is within the lens so the effect of the filter is taken into account when shooting. Here's a picture:

_MG_3483 by Lemaildetom on Talk Photography​

He also gave me all is developing kit, he thinks all the chemicals are still good to use, also come with all the accessories needed timer, pegs, thermometer... Here's a couple of picture


_MG_3484 by Lemaildetom on Talk Photography​


_MG_3485 by Lemaildetom on Talk Photography​

I really owe him a good one, all of this for free! I'll get him a nice bottle when is finish with his alcohol free month.
I cannot wait to give all of this a go!
 
Brilliant, that's a cracking bit of luck. Hope you enjoy using it and we see the results soon.(y)
 
Strappy said:
Oh dear, I hope they aren't ill. ;)

Congrats, Chris, looking forward to seeing how you get on with it. Have you chosen a film for your OCOL?
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Tri-X already loaded... and a partly exposed Tri-X in the Pentax MX, taken with the 35mm lens, that'll need to get finished, so I'm not really one camera, one lens yet!

I won't be able to experiment until the OH is visiting friends; this flat is too small to hide things!
 
My new CL doesn't have a strap. The camera is odd as the two strap lugs are on the side, so the camera hangs in portrait format (and the instructions about metering etc all say to return it to portrait first). I found a genuine strap (?) on the evil bay, but it's over £50. It looks like a continuous loop going through the two strap lugs.

I did wonder about a wrist strap. I have a nice Gordy strap on my X10, and they are not far apart in weight (and the CL is probably smaller from the back to the lens cap!). Is that a good idea? I can get one from the Tripman, or there's a very similar strap from Portugal on the Bay... [ETA: the CL is small enough to get easily into a coat pocket, which is why I was thinking of the wrist strap]
 
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