GAS What was your best purchase of 2021?

[doobs]

No cameras, but Scarlett came home to live with us.

Here she is on the Blue Ridge Parkway last September:

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[Herman]

Nice car

 

[Bobby T]

50mm f1.0. Easily my favorite lens from Fuji. And that’s saying something as there are some Fuji lenses I absolutely love.

 

[Herman]

Wow, great f1 lens!

 

[John King]

No cameras, but Scarlett came home to live with us.

Here she is on the Blue Ridge Parkway last September:

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But nice, and photogenic ... .

 

[emorgan451]

A new to me Olympus 40-150 2.8 PRO was hands down my best photo purchase. It's been almost glued to my camera since. Unless I've needed wider or brighter for indoors I've found few reasons to use anything else. It has become the pry it from my cold dead hands lens.

 

[William Lewis]

No question, my Leica M 240...

Pretty sure I know what the answer for 2022 will be too now that I have that 7Artisans 50/1.1 in hand

 

[Ad Dieleman]

No question, my Leica M 240...

Pretty sure I know what the answer for 2022 will be too now that I have that 7Artisans 50/1.1 in hand

Wow, that Super Rokkor!

 

[AlwaysOnAuto]

Not as fancy as some of the cameras here, but this one means a lot to me. An old SR-T 101 I 'rescued' at the GW auction site. It was good therapy for me after my open heart surgery at the beginning of the year.

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[William Lewis]

It is a very sweet lens. I've ended up with a couple of really great lenses for it which really adds to the fun of using the camera.

 

[Ad Dieleman]

Not as fancy as some of the cameras here, but this one means a lot to me. An old SR-T 101 I 'rescued' at the GW auction site. It was good therapy for me after my open heart surgery at the beginning of the year.
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I still remember how I liked my SR-T303b at the time, bought when a shop sold off the last ones. As much as I struggled with the XD7's, my SR-T started giving great results right from the very first roll.

 

[John King]

Not as fancy as some of the cameras here, but this one means a lot to me. An old SR-T 101 I 'rescued' at the GW auction site. It was good therapy for me after my open heart surgery at the beginning of the year.
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Hope your heart surgery went well, and improved your quality of life.

to the 'zipper club'.

 

[boojum]

Replaced the Sony A7 II and 24 - 240 zoom with a A7 III and a new 24 - 240. Nice camera, high batting average on in focus and correctly exposed. If it doesn't work, oh, well, screwed up again. ;o)

 

[DM Larson]

This is a really hard one. I got several Z lenses last year and it is hard to choose. The first I got was the magnificent Z 14-24 which stuns me with the superb quality across the zoom range. But, in the long term it may be my 100-400. I got that on the 23rd of December and haven't used it much yet, but expect to use it a great deal in the future.

 

[kae1]

Topaz DeNoise improved the IQ of all of my lenses.

 

[CountingGx85Gx8G9s]

My 12 core 64 GB memory amd with AMD 12 gb gpu, new 27"/50" monitor/TV and 22 TB's of storage. Old computer died in November.

 

[marlof]

I didn’t buy anything photography related in 2021 and I’m mighty proud of that. To celebrate, I bought a GR IIIx in 2022…

 

[davidzvi]

I bought and sold a good amount this year, but then I tend to every couple years.

Bought:
Fuji X100v
Nikon Z5 / 24-70 f4
Olympus E-P7 / 8-25 / 100-400
Panasonic 12-32

Sold:
Fuji X100v
Nikon Z5 / 24-70 f4
Olympus Pen F / 100-400
PanLeica 8-18

Bought - Sold - Bought again
Olympus 17 / 12-45
Panasonic 20 (actually sold and bought back the same lens)


Best? By far the Olympus E-P7.

 

[John King]

My 12 core 64 GB memory amd with AMD 12 gb gpu, new 27"/50" monitor/TV and 22 TB's of storage. Old computer died in November.

And to the forum.

That looks like a very nice box. Should serve you well.

My main workstation needs replacing with something along those lines.

 

[CraigC]

M1 MacBook Air without a doubt.

Handles LR and all my files much better than my 2007 iMac did.