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I've had a few lately:
Canon New FD 35mm f/2: love it! Great weight and size savings over the FD 35mm f/2 SSC (concave thorium), a lens I really enjoyed but was a bit too big and heavy to get much use. The New FD 35/2 is light enough that's starting to become my single lens kit, with the Sony FE 28/2 and Contax G 45/2 continuing to be my two lens kit.
Fujica G690BL w/ 100mm f/3.5 lens: Not a purchase, at least not at this point... but I've borrowed a Fujica G690BL from a friend. I had been toying with the idea of medium format, using a Moskva-5 or Yashica 124G as a cheap way to give it a whirl. I remembered that someone I knew was trying to sell a G690BL and asked if I could try it out.
It's insanely large! My first experience with a meterless camera. Just gave the roll of Fuji Pro 400H to my local photo shop, can't wait to see the negatives.
Certainly fun to shoot with, though the size and weight (~4 lbs) is nuts. I didn't realize how much I relied on seeing DOF when manually focusing, either on mirrorless or a film SLR. A lot to get used to.
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