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The Photography Purchase Confessional Thread (GAS)

John Barry said:
The Ford plant constructed between 1917 & 1927 at Rouge in Dearborn, Michigan became an icon of American industrial achievement. Employing over 100,000 workers it had its own docks to bring in iron ore, smelted in their furnaces with enough electricity generation to supply a city of a million people. Over the 1990s Michael Kenna made a number of visits to the site documented in this book:

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It a good book and one already in the 'Perceptive' Library!
 
My recent book and zine buying has continued at a pace, recent photo related acquistions (last 3 months) include:-

Books

Drained - Paul Hart https://www.paulhartphotography.com/drained-series
Sheffield Photographs 1988-1992 - Berris Conolly https://www.dewilewis.com/products/sheffield-photographs-1988-1992
Tube Station Anthology - Joshua Abbott/Philip Butler https://www.artdecomagpie.com/produ...-1924-1961-by-joshua-abbott-and-philip-butler
M62: Transpenine Motorwat - Kevin Crooks https://the-modernist.org/products/m62-the-trans-pennine-motorway
295 Kilometers - Martin Friedrich https://anotherplacepress.bigcartel.com/product/295-kilometers-martin-friedrich
Brutal Yorkshire - Martin Dust https://www.martindust.photography/store/p/brutalyorkshire

Architecture but might as well be photobooks! all s/h

James Strling - Buildings and Projects - Colin Rowe 1984
New Directions in British Architecture - Foster/Rogers/Stirling - Deyan Sudjic 1986
Zaha Hadid - Complete Buildings and Projects 1998
Modern - The Modern Movement In Britain - Alan Powers 2005

Zines

A Fortunate Man's Place - Steve Starr - contact author directly through Twitter
Concrete Sheffied - Mick Jones https://www.martindust.photography/store/p/something-somewhere-magazine-concrete-sheffield-02
The Last Day Of Our Youth - Paul Baker https://www.artdecomagpie.com/produ...outh-by-paul-b-baker-collated-observations-22
Seen By The Sea - Julie Cumming - contact author directly through Twitter
Broken Ground - Ana Catarina Pinho https://anotherplacepress.bigcartel.com/product/broken-ground-ana-catarina-pinho
In Common - Claudia Leisenger https://anotherplacepress.bigcartel.com/product/in-common-claudia-leisinger
Tracing The Faults - Ste Murray https://anotherplacepress.bigcartel.com/product/tracing-the-faults-ste-murray
Along - Erik Gould https://anotherplacepress.bigcartel.com/product/along-erik-gould
Salt and Light - Aster Reem David https://anotherplacepress.bigcartel.com/product/salt-and-light-aster-reem-david
Neighbourhood - Morten Erikson https://anotherplacepress.bigcartel.com/product/neighbourhood-morten-eriksen
Fountain - Jon Pountney https://www.artdecomagpie.com/produ...leys-by-jon-pountney-collated-observations-23
 
Since I started this thread, I suppose I'll have to confess, having used a friends GF100-200mm for a couple of hours and then going to Oulton Park and having no long native lenses, yesterday I splashed out and bought my own GF100-200mm, traded in my EF 100mm Macro to soften the blow and added to the fact that the lens is on a £530 discount at the moment, it seemed rude not to :)

So if you see anyone weilding a Watney's Party Seven sized lens on the end of a GFX, that will be me :D
 
I’m suffering a huge wave of photo GAS right now. Even though it’s entirely irrational and difficult to justify, I am veering dangerously close to buying a Leica Q of some sort. Scary expensive for a P&S but tell that to my heart…. I think the Q-P might be the sweet spot if I can find a good ‘un for a Q-ish price….
 
JTC said:
I’m suffering a huge wave of photo GAS right now. Even though it’s entirely irrational and difficult to justify, I am veering dangerously close to buying a Leica Q of some sort. Scary expensive for a P&S but tell that to my heart…. I think the Q-P might be the sweet spot if I can find a good ‘un for a Q-ish price….
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Qs are very nice indeed, if you want a fixed lens compact. Alternatively, if size is not an issue, you could get a SL(601) with a Sigma L lens for similar money.
 
topoxforddoc said:
Qs are very nice indeed, if you want a fixed lens compact. Alternatively, if size is not an issue, you could get a SL(601) with a Sigma L lens for similar money.
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Size isn’t a big deal - one of my all-time favourite cameras was the Mamiya 7-ii - but I quite like the simplicity and constraint that a single lens system offers. I always agonise over which lenses to take with my Fuji XT2….
 
JTC said:
Size isn’t a big deal - one of my all-time favourite cameras was the Mamiya 7-ii - but I quite like the simplicity and constraint that a single lens system offers. I always agonise over which lenses to take with my Fuji XT2….
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Nothing to stop you being a one lens shooter with an interchangeable lens. 90% of my shots are taken on my M10 with an old 1980s 35 pre=asph 35 Summilux. I just get anxious about digital all in ones. In the digital era, the camera is essentially a disposable item. If the sensor or circuit board fails in 10-15 years, I suspect no-one would be able to fix it (quite unlike many film cameras); there would be no spares. The investment in photography is pretty much always in the glass, as you can use that almost forever.
 
Meet the new body, same (almost) as the old body... Yesterday I picked up a s/h EOS 5D4 in excellent as new condition as an upgrade to my 5D2. 50% more Mpx! It seems to be substantially the same in use but there are a lot more options to get my head round especially in auto-focus, however as I rarely shoot anything that moves I don't need to go into it too deeply :)
The 5D2 will retire to a drawer, it's showing the marks of 11 years of bouncing up and down mountains and fells in all weathers but has never missed a beat. The proverbial tank.
I consider the 5D4 to be a bargain as I had been looking at the R5 at about £3000 more or the R6 at about £1000 more, and unobtanium at the moment anyway. Plus I would have needed to faff about with an adaptor for my EF lenses. Is that enough justification? :rolleyes:
 
A Wacom Cintiq 16 graphics tablet

I had a small A5 Wacom eons ago. This is something else - just loving it for post processing.

PS my main screen isn't actually that pink - it's just the lighting when I took the pic.

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I actually have GAS for a non-existent lens: the Sigma Art 50/1.4 DG DN. I can't begin to imagine why it doesn't exist - you'd think it'd've been among their very first mirrorless offerings - but there it is. If they made a 28/1.4 DG DN I'd probably snap it up as well, but that's unlikely. The market has for some reason settled on 24mm, which I'm not so keen on.

So yeah, I'm hankering for a non-existent product. Saves a fortune!
 
I prefer 35 mm on a full frame camera so I have the Sigma 35mm f1.4 Art.
24mm on a crop sensor so the 24mm Art would be ideal.

Pete
 
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