The last new thing I bought was a panorama board for my 4x5 last year. Also last year, I traded a camera that I never used for a used Sinar F-1. I had to buy a new lens board for the Sinar, howver. I also purchased a used bag bellows for it.
I'm thinking of replacing my old Linhof 5x7 (too heavy) with a new Tachihara 5x7. I don't have a lot of disposable income to spend on photo gear.
Did my wife put you up to this? I'd prefer she didn't read this list.
New:
Nikkor 200 f/8 M (couldn't find a used one)
Gnass Gear lens case and film holder cases
Kelty Redwing backpack
Film (I don't get good results with used film)
Misc. filters and gagdets (gray card, cable releases, etc)
Used:
Caltar II-N 90 f/6.8
Sironar-N 135 f/5.6
Nikkor 300 f/9 M (just arrived as I was reading this thread)
Tachihara 4x5
Total spent: somewhere around $3200 to $3500, half of which was financed by selling other LF and MF photo gear
We're not counting money spent on drum scans and prints, are we?
I'm on an extremely tight budget, so practically everything I have is used. Sometimes well used.Aside from supplies (film, paper, chemistry):
New: <li>Cooler bag, converted to camera bag (Wal-Mart): $6.50 plus $4 for foam.
<li>Lee 100mm gel filter holder: $20
<li> 20" shutter cable release: $12
Used: <li>180mm Fuji CM-W (E-bay) $325
<li>240 Caltar II-N (E-bay) $350
<li>D2 cold light (E-bay) $60
<li>9 - 5x7 film holders: $40
<li>5x7 film back for B&J field: $25 + trade goods
Politically, aerodynamically, and fashionably incorrect.
"Did my wife put you up to this? I'd prefer she didn't read this list"
That must be part of my madness....I'm single!
Forgot to put the amount I spent in my post above. New lens board for Sinar, $90 (I about fell over on that one), $15 bucks for panorama board and I think about $125 for a used bag bellows for the Sinar.
From Really Right Stuff, an arca-style QR plate for my Canham DLC 45.
From Kirk Enterprises, an adaptor plate to allow my Bogen 410 geared head to take Arca-style QR plates.
A Black Jacket dark cloth.
From GnassGear, the dark cloth, short lens case, 8 pouch film-holder file
From Calumet & hunt Photo, 100 sheet box of HP5+ and ancillary chemistry and paper.
Total outlay, including everything, is (I think) between $700 and $800.
My major expense this year was an 11x14 Burke & James Camera and 22" f/4 Dallmeyer Patent 5A. Together these were $1500.
I spent another $500 or so on miscellaneous and useless eBay purchases; 8" f2.7 B&L lens, 5x7 Tailboard Camera, Thorton-Pickard 1/2 Plate Camera, two 19th Century Portrait lenses.
I spent about $400 on chemicals, film and other sundries.
Finally, I spent another $200 on custom built equipment for alternative processes.
J.P., on my father-in-law's 50th wedding anniversary, he told me:
"I never knew what true happiness was until I got married.
But then it was too late."
My wife does try to keep some of my spending within reason, but I think I'll keep her. The real question is, will she keep me?
In the last year I've bought.
New
Fuji 300 f9,
Fuji 450 f12,
bunch of holders for 8x10,
Canon D1 MKII,
17-40,
70-200 2.8,
300 2.8, (two of these actually after dropping one in the lake)
flashes for canon,
4 white lightning flashes,
Used
Wisner 8x10,
Wisner 4x5 back for 8x10,
Zone VI tripod,
Minolta Spot Meter,
Schneider 300 5.6,
Nikkor 135 for 4x5,
more holders for 8x10,
zone vi 4x5,
and about $1200 work of tmax 400 in 8x10
Don't tell my wife.
1 Arca Swiss Discovery New $1425
1 Rodenstock Lupe New $100
1 Fuji Quickload Holder New $100
1 Nikorr 90mm f4.5 lens Used $900
1 150mm Fuji W lens Used $210
5 (20 sht QL) packs Fuji Velvia 100F
3 (20 sht QL) packs of Fuji Astia 100F
1 82mm Hoya PL New
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