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Michael Graves
10-May-2010, 14:44
Show us something you made with a piece of equipment you got on the cheap. This one is from the sub-$100 210mm Astragon I recently got from Jim. It's on 5x7 HP5.

Robert Hughes
10-May-2010, 17:32
Sub $100 is a bargain? All my lenses are sub $100...

Michael Graves
10-May-2010, 18:00
Sub $100 is a bargain? All my lenses are sub $100...

Then you should have plenty of stuff to post! Where's the shot?

urs0polar
10-May-2010, 19:37
$80 18cm f/4.5 Zeiss Jena Tessar on Fuji instant fp100c45:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2685/4324170172_eb4cf0539b_o.jpg

Paul Metcalf
10-May-2010, 20:59
IIRC a payed around $30 for a "Universal Extra Rapid Aplanat 13x18." Shot wide open on 8x10 FP4+.

Harlan Chapman
10-May-2010, 21:02
Front element from a $45 projection Petzval (courtesy Jim Galli). The used Packard shutter cost more than the lens.
Arkansas Black apple blossom.
Rittreck View, 5x7 Efke 25, Pyrocat HD.

mrladewig
10-May-2010, 21:39
Well, I bought my first 4X5 (CC402) a few years ago with a Symmar-S 150/5.6, Super Angulon 65/8 and 12 film holders for $100.

The 150 has been a staple in my kit since
http://ladewigs.com/Gallery/d/2368-1/45_E1VS_20091112_002_sml.jpg

http://ladewigs.com/Gallery/d/2370-1/45_RVP5_20091112_001_b.jpg

The 65 and I haven't gotten on so well, but I was pretty happy with this image.
http://ladewigs.com/Gallery/d/794-2/GardenSnow01.jpg

Alan Davenport
10-May-2010, 22:24
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/95/252158854_ff4a1987b2.jpg

Elgeet f/4.5 254mm, in Alphax #4 shutter. $50 on flea bay, plus $5 for a lighter fluid CLA and $25 for SK Grimes to sell me a flange so I could mount it.

leighmarrin
11-May-2010, 01:51
$25.00 eB@y 7.25" Kollmorgen projection lens on 1999-expired TX; 4x5 Pacemaker. Nighttime thrift store window display.
http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/e68c4e935d.jpg (http://www.freeimagehosting.net/)

Scott --
11-May-2010, 08:10
Have posted this before, but it fits here:

http://i531.photobucket.com/albums/dd359/smpsweeps/wray-1.jpg

Shot when I was into 8x10 with a FREE 18" Wray Lustrar process lens with a big chip out of the front.

Jehu
11-May-2010, 09:02
I guess this is a bargain. It's the first time I opened a shutter on a Large Format camera. I wanted to get into LF and I was picking up bargains when I found them. After spending about $250 on a broken Calumet 4x5, a Rodenstock 210mm lens, a couple of holders, a Majestic tripod and a Yankee daylight tank, I tried it out in my driveway. My neighbor's mailbox looked kind of interesting to me. It's built out of an old stitching machine that closed burlap bags with bailing wire.

I scanned the negative on my cheapo flatbed that would only backlight wide enough for medium format:
http://gallery.photo.net/photo/7641451-lg.jpg
I was pretty impressed with the detail LF could do:
http://gallery.photo.net/photo/7641461-lg.jpg
I'd call this a bargain shoot example. It's also what got me hooked.

Robert Hughes
11-May-2010, 12:17
The Wollensak Raptar 135 that came with my Busch Pressman D, purchased for somewhere around $100 -
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4039/4503238840_582d341011.jpg
Fries were extra...

Jim Galli
11-May-2010, 12:19
http://tonopahpictures.0catch.com/Conley/1114WindowsLambertuccisRoma.jpg

I have many......

This one done with a 13" f6.8 Conley lens that of course is a Wollensak Series 1. I call it the poor man's Cooke. It's a 2-2 + 2-2 arrangement like the more famous Cooke, but much older and no coatings. This one is nasty looking, in an un-repairable Autex shutter, and with a big chip out of one of the rear groups. Covers 11X14 nicely.

Gordon Coale
11-May-2010, 12:51
Elgeet f/4.5 254mm, in Alphax #4 shutter. $50 on flea bay, plus $5 for a lighter fluid CLA and $25 for SK Grimes to sell me a flange so I could mount it.

Alan -- This is the first time I've seen any one else with a 10" Elgeet. I have one of these. I just mounted it on my 4x5. It came on a Burke & James 5x7 Commercial View I traded for $17 worth of film. How do you like it?

Steve M Hostetter
11-May-2010, 14:06
http://tonopahpictures.0catch.com/Conley/1114WindowsLambertuccisRoma.jpg

I have many......

This one done with a 13" f6.8 Conley lens that of course is a Wollensak Series 1. I call it the poor man's Cooke. It's a 2-2 + 2-2 arrangement like the more famous Cooke, but much older and no coatings. This one is nasty looking, in an un-repairable Autex shutter, and with a big chip out of one of the rear groups. Covers 11X14 nicely.

^dats what I'm talkin about^

eddie
11-May-2010, 14:49
i posted this before but it fits here so well.

more to come.

i got this lens for 10 euros in paris last year. a hermagis petzval lens that only has the cemented front group...so effectively a landscape lens.

Jim Galli
26-Jul-2010, 07:42
A fun thread because I enjoy a bargain. So here's a couple more of the Ford done with a wonderful old American Optical Goerz Dagor of 10 3/4" that I got a couple of weeks ago. $76 in a Wolly Studio Shutter.


http://tonopahpictures.0catch.com/1929_Phaeton/HomeMadeLens-Dagor/ModelAWeepeingWillows_5DagorS.jpg
model a, weeping willows v

http://tonopahpictures.0catch.com/1929_Phaeton/HomeMadeLens-Dagor/ModelAWeepeingWillows_4DagorS.jpg
model a, weeping willows iv

Pretty it ain't. The lens or the car. Oh, the car was NO bargain:D