GAS GAS: Please Share your Latest Acquisitions Big and Small

With my 15 year old Lowepro bag developing holes and my Ape Case having fallen victim to a melting Fox's Glacier Mint I decided it was time for a new bag.

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olli said:
With my 15 year old Lowepro bag developing holes and my Ape Case having fallen victim to a melting Fox's Glacier Mint I decided it was time for a new bag.

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I really love these bags, I've owned two, and always end up getting rid of them because I just don't use bags. But the canvas Domkes are the bags I really enjoy (if I ever get around to using a bag consistently). The straps with their rubberized bumps are great as well, they keep the strap exactly where I want it.
 
The last of the big spenders, that's me!
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JJC soft release. Does it work, I hear you say. Well, I can't say that I notice any difference, other than being able to easily find the shutter button on a dark night. It certainly is nowhere near the soft touch of the release on the X-H1. So, a waste of money really.
And my accessory shoe cover? That's not new, I bought it a while ago for my X-T1.
 
This is a bit of an different one:

I've always loved the squarehood design for the x100 series, they protect the front element well and have a great look!

I reworked some 3d print files I found online and (after a couple failed attempts) made this squarehood for the 43mm filter ring of Mitakon Zhongyi Speedmaster 25mm f/0.95.
After 3d printing it and making sure it all fits, I've sanded it down and added a steel paintcoat to it. It's not color matched with the Olympus E-pl8 or the lens, but it looks good enough in my opinion.

End result is a very low profile hood and takes up less room compared to the generic silver 43mm hood I had before. It adds a very slight vignette when wide open (which for portraits is welcomed), and no vignette appears when stopped down.

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agentlossing said:
The Pentax K-1 II was itself a dangerously expensive acquisition, but it has also brought its own brand of GAS along with it... but of the much less dangerous kind! In addition to my recent sub-$40 Pentax-M 50mm f1.7, I now have a sub-$40 M 28mm f2.8 as well! Both clean as a whistle.
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Nice! The Pentax-M 50/1.7 is a gem! I have four Pentax 50’s and it’s by far my favorite. Hmm maybe I need a K-1 II to go with mine, too.
 
mpeterson said:
Nice! The Pentax-M 50/1.7 is a gem! I have four Pentax 50’s and it’s by far my favorite. Hmm maybe I need a K-1 II to go with mine, too.
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It's incredibly sharp on the K-1, Pentax really created a technically superb lens there. I'm not going to tell you that you need the FF sensor to enjoy it, but... it doesn't hurt (anything but the pocketbook).
 
I sold my X-E2 and X-T2 six months ago and went round in circles trying to decide if I really needed an ILC or whether my RX100 could do everything I wanted. In the end the extra bit of low light performance and flexibility of interchangeable lenses won out, but I then spent months deciding whether to stick with Fuji or switch to something else in my pursuit of small and light. I was very taken by the EM5 and came close to buying it a couple of times. I also looked at the X-E4 and would probably have bought it if it had ever been available. Since it wasn't, I looked at other Fuji options I hadn't previously considered including the X-T30 and the X-S10. In the end I went with this nearly new X-S10. (Just the body; I already had the lens). While it doesn't have the classic Fuji control layout, it can be customized to suit my needs and it does have the magic word - IBIS. The only absence is some element of weather sealing but for under $1000 I can live with that.

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So now second attept at getting an A7, only have a couple of adapted lenses and a Samyang 24mm for it though, will get the FE 50mm for it in due course. I have sold a load of stuff and in due course will get rid of a load more as it was getting too cluttered and was strugling to find use for a lot of it.
 
Picked up a Nikon ES-2 - started working through some family slides. Dad shot a lot of Kodachrome & assorted other slide-stock. Definitely has a 60's/70's feel to the shots - mostly shot un-metered Pentax so he did pretty well to get the exposure right most of the time. Also a bunch of half-frames mounted on Canon Demi card-stock - don't think he used one but he did have a Pen S; frighteningly vibrant still. Will keep me occupied for a few weeks digitising these. Definitely speedier than a flat-bed or my Plustek slide-scanner - resolution/flatness may be questionable but workflow is so much easier with the ES-2. Would have bought a micro-four-thirds equivalent in a heartbeat but Oly/Panasonic don't seem to have one - the Nikon looks like $30 worth of precision plastic they charge almost $300NZD for - ah well, MFT's loss I guess.

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phigmov said:
Picked up a Nikon ES-2 - started working through some family slides. Dad shot a lot of Kodachrome & assorted other slide-stock. Definitely has a 60's/70's feel to the shots - mostly shot un-metered Pentax so he did pretty well to get the exposure right most of the time. Also a bunch of half-frames mounted on Canon Demi card-stock - don't think he used one but he did have a Pen S; frighteningly vibrant still. Will keep me occupied for a few weeks digitising these. Definitely speedier than a flat-bed or my Plustek slide-scanner - resolution/flatness may be questionable but workflow is so much easier with the ES-2. Would have bought a micro-four-thirds equivalent in a heartbeat but Oly/Panasonic don't seem to have one - the Nikon looks like $30 worth of precision plastic they charge almost $300NZD for - ah well, MFT's loss I guess.

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I have that ES-2 thing too and it worked great on a Panasonic GH2 with the Leica DG Macro-Elmarit 2.8/45, so its use is not limited to full-frame. I don't have any slides anymore, I literally threw them away after digitizing them, so I don't use the ES-2 anymore. I still have the formidable task of going through some 15.000 color negatives and digitize them; as soon as I'm mentally up for it, I'll start finding out how to do that.
 
Ad Dieleman said:
I have that ES-2 thing too and it worked great on a Panasonic GH2 with the Leica DG Macro-Elmarit 2.8/45, so its use is not limited to full-frame. I don't have any slides anymore, I literally threw them away after digitizing them, so I don't use the ES-2 anymore. I still have the formidable task of going through some 15.000 color negatives and digitize them; as soon as I'm mentally up for it, I'll start finding out how to do that.
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Maybe a decent flatbed that auto reverses them, and scans 36 at a time. Numbering system will be crucial so that you can find the worthwhile originals again to scan them properly using a really good film scanner.
 
phigmov said:
Would have bought a micro-four-thirds equivalent in a heartbeat but Oly/Panasonic don't seem to have one.
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I use that, paired with the Oly 60mm and a couple of distance- and a step-up ring off Ebay.

Dont remember the length of the distance pieces, but it looks like this, sorry for the hopeless cellphone pic:
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Looking at it, it may be with the ES-1 contraption in front, I got that one first but bought the ES-2 when that released.

*EDIT*: Having dug through my Ebay stuff, the distance rings are 52mm in diameter and 28mm long and it uses two of these rings.*Edit ends*
 
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I have a real interest in old(er) lenses but I lack the tools, knowledge or an acquaintance living close by to venture in buying these.
Had some bad luck in the past trying this. One that comes to mind was the canon 50mm f/1.5 M39. Developed haze after a short period. Sent it to a reputed photo technician in the next country. Came back all clean and sure enough, after some time, the haze was back.
So, when a contemporary copy of an old design comes along, that's always a something I'm interested in and I start to investigate.
I bought the New Jupiter 3+ for instance.
One that recently peaked my interest is the Light Lens Lab 35mm 8-element copy of the leica summicron 35mm 8 element.
Since Jo Geier was up to his last copy, I bought that one. ("last chance" is always something that makes my decisions that much easier :rolleyes:)
The lens arrived last week.
Nothing to share yet. Don't hold your breath :) most likely nothing before July - August. Precious little opportunity in this period of my live.
 
Bart J D said:
I have a real interest in old(er) lenses but I lack the tools, knowledge or an acquaintance living close by to venture in buying these.
Had some bad luck in the past trying this. One that comes to mind was the canon 50mm f/1.5 M39. Developed haze after a short period. Sent it to a reputed photo technician in the next country. Came back all clean and sure enough, after some time, the haze was back.
So, when a contemporary copy of an old design comes along, that's always a something I'm interested in and I start to investigate.
I bought the New Jupiter 3+ for instance.
One that recently peaked my interest is the Light Lens Lab 35mm 8-element copy of the leica summicron 35mm 8 element.
Since Jo Geier was up to his last copy, I bought that one. ("last chance" is always something that makes my decisions that much easier :rolleyes:)
The lens arrived last week.
Nothing to share yet. Don't hold your breath :) most likely nothing before July - August. Precious little opportunity in this period of my live.
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Not that one should necessarily buy a lens for its looks, but that looks absolutely wonderful on a rangefinder. Everyone who's bought one seems to be very happy with it performance-wise too. Look forward to the images.
 
JensM said:
I use that, paired with the Oly 60mm and a couple of distance- and a step-up ring off Ebay.

Dont remember the length of the distance pieces, but it looks like this, sorry for the hopeless cellphone pic:

Looking at it, it may be with the ES-1 contraption in front, I got that one first but bought the ES-2 when that released.

*EDIT*: Having dug through my Ebay stuff, the distance rings are 52mm in diameter and 28mm long and it uses two of these rings.*Edit ends*
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I'll have to try that - I've got several adapted macros that might do the trick with enough extension tubes stacked up. The ES-2 also comes with a step up ring - fits a 55mm Micro-Nikkor (needs tubes) thread or my bigger 60mm Micro-Nikkor (doesn't need tubes).
I was going to say, the ES-1 can be had much cheaper and it does essentially the same thing. Not sure if it comes with a film-strip or slide holder (the ES-2 does) tho'.
Also, I've tried getting my flash-timing right (tbf I need to experiment more) but outdoor diffuse light works really well - I can sit on the deck bench with a stack of slides, point at a patch of clear-sky with the D700 and away I go.
 
phigmov said:
I was going to say, the ES-1 can be had much cheaper and it does essentially the same thing. Not sure if it comes with a film-strip or slide holder (the ES-2 does) tho'.
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No strip or stuff with the ES-1, which is why I went for the ES-2.

The ES-1 works ok, but it is rather fiddly to set up with each and every framed slide and no means of doing filmstrips other than holding them down with the metal holders that keeps the slides in place.

Before I got the ES-2, my plan was to use the ES-1 for the slides and shooting the negatives off a lightboard, while mounted in a Lomography DigitaLIZA 135 negative holder. For those pictures that exists only as paper copies, the plan is to dig out the paper holder from the analog lightroom stuff I have in a couple of crates in the garage.
 

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