Do you ever suffer episodes of high GAS?

skm.sa100 wrote: Mestari, if I do go down that path, I'll have a clear conscience since I can surely blame you for egging me on! Bill, with that kind of username I'm sure you're pretty much incorrigible.

When in Charlotte late Summer of '22, I came away with a $5 Minolta XE-5 and a T-shirt from Biggs Camera. I love camera stores with lots of used equipment, Biggs definitely scratches that itch. Yeah, incorriblpe is pretty accurate...

Hezu wrote: Wētāpunga wrote: It does look like I got through all of August with no new purchases, and I should be good for October and November as well, by the expedient of being stuck in Nanjing China for work. I thought they are selling (and even producing some) camera gear also in China...

In post-Covid19 China most of stuff is sold online, where my search skills are sorely tested. And the work schedule doesn't really allow for looking.

Plus I'm not sure, I have anything I covet at the moment 🤷

Well, on 1 December I'll have gone 4 months without any new lenses purchased. We will await your report/confession and hope it won't be too long to wait

I did take advantage of Black Friday to purchase a discounted Lexar 320GB CFExpress Card. Sometimes for video or high speed bursts with the α1, having the data pipeline of a CFExpress Card is handy.

Edited by Wētāpunga - 27 November 2023 at 03:08

No major gear purchases in the recent times despite all the sales frenzy. The most obvious photography related item was a cheap 1 TB Pergear CFExpress type A card, although I am now little reserved if I did make the right move as apparently Pergear online store ships from China and the cheap price didn't include any taxes, so it might be that Finnish Customs will be asking to pay VAT on top of this. But at least with that card I can happily shoot as much as I want, especially as I already in summer I got 1 TB Angelfire card.
And with the sale prices I got a new external HDD (14 TB) and a new external SSD (4 TB), so I will have disk space for all those thousands photos (at least for a while) I'll take. HDD is for backups and SSD mainly for laptop usage.
And slightly less directly camera related purchase is two new pairs of liner gloves for my Heat Company Shell winter gloves. And the couple merino wool long johns I bought are even less directly related to photography, but I guess I will wear those also on outdoor photography sessions when it is cold.

I just picked up a rare Seagull DF-103 -- very early 35mm Chinese SLR. The seller said the shutter was dead, and that the leatherette was pealing off. So I got it for a song.

The leatherette was easy to fix with some PLIO-BOND, and the shutter works fine -- once I pressed the seft-timer release button, which apparently the seller didn't know about.

The luck of the Irish. It's TUMS for my GAS.



So, as a result, I splurged. I now have a compact Tamron 24-70mm AF zoom on the way -- in perfect shape for $20. That's NOT for my Seagull, but for my Sony.

The 24-70/2.8 GM II arrived and it seems to be an OK copy, better than my SAL 24-70/2.8 SSM. It will replace that latter, 15 year old lens. It was a really good one and will stay to be still paired with Dynax 7 and a900.

skm.sa100 wrote: mariuszlo wrote: My weakness in the last week: Minolta MD 85/2.0 Would love to see some portraits from that one.

There are some in this thread: https://www.dyxum.com/dforum/samples-minolta-md-rokkor-85mm-f2_topic108916_page1.html