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| Episode 78 • Join the Car Crash Set | 06 Sep 2024 | 01:08:15 | |
Hear the crushing steel, feel the steering wheel! Gabe lingers in NYC for more photographic and culinary adventures, while Jeff sees his reflection in the luminescent dash of his newly beloved Alpa 10s. But what will happen when he gently caresses its warm leatherette? Tune in and find out! presenting… our bad-review mug! however, you gotta listen to the episode to find out where to get it, ‘cause it’s not on our merch page Gabe recounts further New York exploits with Sissi Lu, Chris Chu and Chris Lowell Sissi gave each of the boys one of her super-cool DO NOT X-RAY film travel bags Gabe test-drove the Pentax 17 and had some criticisms - pictures came out great, though! Gabe’s palate was enslaved by Xi’an Famous Foods he visited the new Leica Store in the Meatpacking District - turns out they are still carrying used equipment his only dud of the entire trip: three rolls of film purchased from Willoughby’s turned out to be both expensive and expired erratum! apologia! mea culpa! we found Louis Mendes, namesake of our last episode (oops), and he’s a national treasure Jeff has been finding the Alpa 10s an utter joy to shoot with but beware of dry (ba-dum-bump-bump, ba-dum-bump) leatherette - Jeff did a quick fix with a replacement strip from cameraleather.com (and also procured a replacement sheet from Polar Bear Camera) Jeff bought a tiny Reveni light meter Mk. 1 on eBay and it is nice (“switched off”), makers of the charger to replace the PX625 with the rechargeable Varta V80H, make their own version of The Thingy and so much more - check ‘em out Mint’s new Rollei 35AF will cost $800, making the Pentax 17 seem like a bargain we urge you to learn the story of the Salmon of Knowledge so you will be spared Jeff’s Irish accent dusted off her old Nikon F5 and 85mm f1.8 Nikkor to shoot a newly engaged couple, burning through two rolls of FPP Color 125 in fifteen minutes exciting news! John-Michael Mendizza plans to lend Gabe his new Tele-Rolleiflex we take a shallow dive into our Prodigious Mailbag™ and finally, our art director Keith Greenstein wrote and illustrated a new children’s book - it’s called Why Don’t You Marry It? and you should buy it! | |||
| Episode 77 • Today My Name Is Lois Mendez | 23 Aug 2024 | 01:02:03 | |
It’s Talking Heads: 77 as the boys convene in New York City for a pilgrimage to B&H Photo, where they ambush veteran camera guru Michael Armato at the used counter for what proves to to be a truly phenomenal interview. Then it’s off to Fotografiska for the long-promised visit to the Vivian Maier and Bruce Gilden shows. Who will emerge victorious when Jeff confronts his photographic nemesis? Tune in and find out! | |||
| Episode 68 • Peres-Troika | 10 Mar 2024 | 01:14:28 | |
It’s an xlent xlerated xtralarge xtravaganza as Gabe and Jeff hack and slash their way to the bottom of the Prodigious Mailbag™, which features a slew of emails penned by celebrities under the pseudonym “Alan Peres.” Also discussed: cameras of ’55, cameras of ’24, Dune 2, SB2, SL3, FP4, HP5, Number Six and Zippora Seven! Tune in as we run the numbers! Cameras in Focus 1955: the Nikon SP was in development (which prompts a reprise of Jeff’s astonishing SP acquisition story) a 1955 survey of 35mm cameras by price range Jeff briefly acquired an Asahi Pentax SB2, rare variant of the H3/S3 sold only on Japanese military bases… but it was broken, so back it went Gabe launches the Under $40 Camera Challenge! The soon-come Pentax film compact camera will be a half-frame model with zone focusing For the third straight time, Leica reports record revenue, plus the new SL3 is out Gabe rhapsodizes about the monstrous Gowlandflex Dave Tada picked Gabe up a coveted Nikkor 28mm f2.8… …but he still yearns for an ugly black Nikon F Dune 2 was shot on a $50 Helios-44! Jeff watched the great Yu Tsai in action at the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue 60th anniversary shoot in Fort Lauderdale We go XL to empty out the Prodigious Mailbag™ Our IDOC Discord channel is hoppin’! Join us! | |||
| Episode 67 • Your Extra Time and Your Kiss | 19 Feb 2024 | 01:08:03 | |
“Pablo Larraín, the film’s Chilean director, felt [Jackie] Kennedy’s love of beauty was so integral to her character that he requested [Natalie] Portman utter ‘I love beauty’ at some point during the shooting of every scene.” This is absurd, but not as absurd as Episode № 67 of I Dream of Cameras, “Your Extra Time and Your Kiss,” in which we discuss cameras called Beauty and Kiss and Super. Tune in for all the mayhem! Jeff made yet another math error! 64 is 2 to the fifth Gabe presents… Cameras in Focus, 1956: Beauty 35 Super(“I love beauty”) Jeff snagged a Canon EOS New Kiss Panorama (a.k.a. Rebel G, a.k.a. Rebel 500N) for $14.50 and gave it to his brother Steven After much equivocation, and after handling the lens at B&H, he concluded he does not need the extravagantly-priced 30mm for the Hasselblad XPan Gabe did an all-film photo shoot with Claire Hinkley during the recent L.A. monsoon Also shot Kylie Silkman and her sister Danica with the stunning Helios-44 lens Jason Schneider's books on camera collecting are amazing Perplexity.ai is a useful tool for camera comparisons We will try to chat with y’all on Discord - check the #idoc-podcast channel under Sunny 16 Don Goldberg at DAG helped Gabe fix the broken strap guard on his Leica M6 TTL And finally, a deep dive into our Prodigious Mailbag™! | |||
| Episode 66 • To the Bathyscaphe! | 03 Feb 2024 | 01:04:10 | |
It’s a voyage to the bottom of the Prodigious Mailbag™ on our Smash Hit Podcast™, but before that there’s talk of the year in photography 1957, the revived Southern California camera show, Jeff’s trip to the Caribbean with a sexy Swede and also his girlfriend, eBay execs sending pig fetuses to their critics, and so much more! Jeff made yet another major math error! 64 is 2 cubed Sorry, but Parenting Hell is not a smash hit podcast Gabe presents The Year in Focus 1957: Concava Tessina watch camera TLR Leica M2 (for real) which when new went for $276, or $2,884.37 in today’s dollars Asahi came out with the original Pentax Gabe went to the new Huntington Park camera show (very exciting) and nearly bought a Contax T Jeff visited 5R Photo Lab in New York and met proprietor Alec A trip to St. Barth’s, French West Indies occasioned the return of the XPan, and a love affair was reignited Jeff shot with both Portra 400 and 160… and liked 160 better! Gabe visited Jeff and P in NYC, went to B&H Photo, bought nothing… …but then ordered an Exa 1B and a Helios-44 lens Mint unveiled their coming-soon Rollei 35AF — apparently anyone can license the name “Rollei” for a buck fifty — but who needs this thing? A bunch of eBay execs were creepy criminals Jeff got a cool Minox film slitter from camerhack.it Check out RitchieCam, a camera app for iPhone with an XPan emulation mode A dive so deep into our Prodigious Mailbag™ that it requires a bathyscaphe Gabe wants to hear about online photography websites you love - blogs, magazines, whatever | |||
| Episode 65 • Rebel Rebel | 08 Jan 2024 | 01:08:35 | |
You want more and you want it fast? Tune in to Episode № 65 of I Dream of Cameras, “Rebel Rebel,” in which Gabe and Jeff wax rhapsodic about the trash-table treasure Canon EOS Rebel 2000. How did this grubby chunk of plastic capture the hearts of two men devoted to the cult of Leica? Pluck this pod and find out! Also, we call out great cameras NOT from the big-name brands, recount recent shooting adventures, and take a shallow dip into the deep and prodigious mailbag! Jeff made a major math error! 64 is 2^8 Cameras of ’58: Mamiya Elca (and from ’59, the fascinating square-format Mamiya Sketch) And now, the long-promised Minority Report (great cameras not from the big-name brands) Alpa 11si (of course) Plaubel Makina 67 (Gabe’s gonna get one!) The trash-table Canon EOS Rebel 2000 is dirt cheap and packed with features — we both love ours! There’s also an even-cheaper EOS Kiss Panorama with a stupid panorama switch! The 40mm f2.8 pancake lens is delightful Check out Casual Photophile's impassioned defense of “Dorky AF” SLRs of the late ‘90s Gabe’s been shooting portraits (?!) with Leica’s 28mm Elmarit And finally, a dip into our Prodigious Mailbag™ | |||
| Episode 64 • By the Time I Get Some Phoenix | 20 Dec 2023 | 01:05:54 | |
The big news in Episode № 64 of I Dream of Cameras is the release of Harman Phoenix, a brand-new experimental color film from the company we insist on calling Ilford ‘cause they didn’t give us free stuff. Also covered: notable cameras of 1959; fun with Lomochrome Turquoise; Gabe’s recent five-camera all-film photo shoot; the growing cult of the Minolta P’s; last-minute holiday gift ideas; and tons of blowback in the Prodigious Mailbag! Cameras of 1959: debut of the Nikon F the original one-lug Olympus Pen (made not by Olympus, but Sanko Shoji) The Russian Mir (a simplified Zorki 4) Gabe went to The Darkroom for the exciting debut of Harman Phoenix, a brand-new film from a company we insist on calling Ilford ‘cause they didn’t give us free stuff Labs working with this film are running smack into The Scannenberg Uncertainty Principle Jeff had a blast shooting Lomochrome Turquoise with his rare and exotic Mamiya/Sekor 2000 DTL Meanwhile, Gabe’s been shooting with his cheap ’n’ cheerful Canon Rebel 2000 + 40mm f2.8 pancake lens — the results blew him away! He also recently did an all-film shoot with the Contax 645, Rolleiflex 2.8E2, Yashica T4, Leica M6… and Minolta P’s! P's Mania rolls on! Directing NBC’s new sitcom Extended Family, Jeff did some set photography with his beloved Olympus Pen EE-3. 78 shots on a roll! Holiday gift ideas! Jeff recently acquired some excellent photo books: Hasselblad - The Camera System 50 Years 1948-1998 Why not our new Alan Daly t-shirt, or something else from our burgeoning merch page? Or Rachel's Brewster-Wright’s Ultimate Film & Darkroom Workbook A dip into our Prodigious Mailbag™, featuring: More Vivian Maier blowback from our 50th episode - as revenge, Viv will be getting a one-woman show at Fotografiska New York in May 2024 An excellent photo club, The Slow Camera Exchange A wonderful 1942 article from The Atlantic, The Dream Camera | |||
| Episode 63 • Three Years of His Youth | 29 Nov 2023 | 01:10:07 | |
It’s our third anniversary episode, featuring celebrations galore and talk of cameras past, present and future. Plus the return of our Prodigious Mailbag™, featuring NO PRAISE! Tune in for all the merriment! Cameras of 1960: the original Canonflex Pentax Spotmatic shown at Photokina Gabe and Jeff got great birthday gifts! the original Kodak Instamatic Lego Rolleiflex A golden Minolta P’s Gabe’s been trawling eBay for early LIFE magazines Please tell Jeff he doesn’t need a Nicca IIIL He’s also fascinated by the ridiculous Contax Preview Gabe’s got some shoots coming up, and plans to use: and the super-cheap Canon Rebel 2000 with the 40mm pancake Jeff’s quasi-repaired Pentax ES II is cursed… never again! …but he’s loving his rare and delightful Mamiya/Sekor 2000 DTL …and will soon be shooting on set with his beloved Olympus Pen EE-3 A deep dive into our Prodigious Mailbag™ and finally: Gabe throws out the Under $95 Camera Challenge! | |||
| Episode 62 • Austin to Austria | 27 Oct 2023 | 00:53:10 | |
Gabe goes to a celebrity wedding; Jeff appears in Vogue Portugal. Gabe has a birthday; Jeff has a breakdown. And all the while, they scour the globe in search of the world’s finest vintage camera shops. Tune in for pulled pork and wienerschnitzel and much, much more! Cameras of ’61: A vintage Hasselblad 500c ad: What could possibly make a camera worth $550? Gabe had a birthday and received a photo-themed gift: Life Magazine and the Power of Photography, featuring his beloved Gordon Parks Our corporate retreat in Austin, Texas featured visits to The Camera Exchange and Austin Camera, followed by BBQ at Rollin’ Smoke, where you get a free beer with your tip Gabe’s verdict on the Nikon 28Ti: he agrees it’s boring and prefers the Yashica T4! Jeff’s Pentax ES II mega-saga: if your stuff gets damaged by UPS, submit a claim! As for Electro Spotmatics of all sorts, never again! The new I'm Back digital insert for 35mm cameras is larger than it appears - would you do it? We were gifted a complete set of Atlanta Film Co. films from Bill Manning Jeff returned to Vienna, which is vintage camera heaven! Notable stops included Camera 31, Westlicht, Jo Geier, United Camera and the astounding Photo Börse More security hassles in Frankfurt - next time, lie about your ISO! Gabe’s been shooting with his Rolleiflex and Leica M6 Jeff spent some time with Leica photographer Pat Domingo Also a shout-out to Branislav Simoncik, who shot P for Vogue Portugal Starting with Episode 17, the subtitles on the episode page at idreamofcameras.com became delightfully obscure references, yet nobody ever mentions them. Y’all paying attention? | |||
| Episode 61 • More of You, Less of Us | 14 Oct 2023 | 01:11:18 | |
A rare treat: IDOC № 61 is dedicated to you, our legions of devoted listeners. In this XL episode, we take a deep, deep dive into our Prodigious Mailbag™, which as of recording ran 46 emails deep. Tune in as Gabe and Jeff respond to inquiries, sympathies, clapbacks and condemnations. It’s sixty-wonderful! Cameras of ’62: Hasselblad 500C in space! Wally Schirra aboard Mercury 8 After we revealed our eBay watch lists, people did indeed skunk us! The mint Minolta P’s, the bulk roll of Panatomic-X, the rare Pentax SB2, the Alpa 10d half-frame and one of the two Nicca IIILs are all gone! and for the remainder of the episode, a deep dive into our Far Beyond Prodigious Mailbag! | |||
| Episode 60 • I Dream of Genie | 28 Sep 2023 | 01:04:52 | |
In Episode № 60 of I Dream of Cameras, Gabe and Jeff stun the photography world by boldly revealing the contents of their fiercely guarded eBay watch lists. That’s right — you could go on the ‘Bay right now and steal their Precious right out from under them! What are the white whales and black beauties they’ve been eyeing hungrily? And which would they choose if a magical djinn offered them just one? Cross your arms and blink to find out now! Cameras of 1963: the original Kodak Instamatic the original gothic Olympus Pen F Polaroid Polacolor film for Land cameras Gabe promised a purge! there was no purge Which cameras did Jeff bring to New York in anticipation of a month of travel? Jeff’s Pentax ES II misadventure Gabe shot with the Nikon 28Ti, verdict to come Gabe’s take on the new Polaroid I-2 Jeff and Gabe boldly reveal the contents of their eBay watch lists — feel free to skunk us! If a magical genie offered you one thing from your watch list, what would you pick? The Prodigious Mailbag™ will be the bulk of our next episode, so please write to us at eye dream of cam rahs at gee male dot calm Gabe recommends an excellent YouTube series: Wrong Side of the Lens Fred Coury’s beloved Amy Motta is a Canon film shooter now Don’t praise us in an email — leave us a review on iTunes! | |||
| Episode 59 • Friends Was a Fun Job | 26 Aug 2023 | 01:05:04 | |
“So no one told you life was gonna be this way / Your Nikon’s in the shop, your XPan’s D.O.A....” Join Jeff and Gabe in Noo Yawk Cit-tay for a very special episode, featuring a schmear and a Dr. Brown’s and the most underrated Canon SLR of the modern era. We’ll be there for you! Cameras of 1964: the O.G. Leicaflex the elusive Canon FX the wildly undervalued Pentax SV the freakish Nikkorex Auto 35 the large and unwieldy Koni-Omega Rapid Gabe’s NYC photo walk with the great Sissi Lu The team’s visit to B&H Photo (and Russ & Daughters) with Chris Chu Jeff bought a Canon F-1 Lake Placid Olympics edition, the only classic-era Canon SLR he’s never owned Comparing the XPan with the Minolta P’s: field of view and aspect ratio are quite similar! Another roll-the-dice segment! Adapting this lens for that camera, and the worst camera we’ve ever used — fight us! Plus a dip halfway down our prodigious mailbag! | |||
| Episode 76 • 10s, NE1? | 09 Aug 2024 | 01:11:22 | |
Hurricane Debby brings a downpour of camera gear! Gabe’s out with his Leica III and Mamiya C330, while Jeff samples some digital Leicas. Gabe chats with Toronto photographer Jessica Devic, and Jeff recounts his acquisition of a rare Alpa 10s from a seller in Alaska. Tune in for all the fish stories! It’s raining cameras! So much to report… Gabe figured out how to adjust his Leica III rangefinder and he’s acquired a Metz 45 CT-1 flash, the Bruce Gilden Special and he’s been shooting his Mamiya C330 with the chimney finder Jeff wanted to shoot portraits with a Leica M Typ 240, but the charger was missing… …so he tried a Leica V-Lux 4 and did not enjoy it meanwhile, his girlfriend’s Nikon F5 turned up under a pile of winter clothes and ski boots his “poor condition” Petri Color 35 Custom turned out to be perfect but most improbably, he found an insanely rare Alpa 10s on craigslist… with Schneider-Kreuznach lens and tons of accessories… from the original owner in Alaska… for only $400! However… it was missing the takeup spool — thank goodness for eBay and there’s a tricky battery problem, for which he MacGyvered together a neat solution speaking of batteries, there’s a new thingy in town! Could KaptainKugelkopf’s rechargeable Varta V80H + this inexpensive charger be the ideal replacement for the long-discontinued PX625 battery? Jeff ordered one to find out! Gabe’s bookstore recommendation: Untitled Books in Echo Park, Los Angeles is loving his Leica Q2 turns out Gabe does know who Vincent Peters is Gabe’s interview with Toronto photographer Jessica Devic Gabe’s friend is a descendant of (and dead ringer for) the mighty Ernst Leitz! finally, a dog-paddle around our Prodigious Mailbag™, including how Jeff’s Strong Opinions about Vivian Maier cost his brother Steven a chance at love | |||
| Episode 58 • Tumbling Dice | 12 Aug 2023 | 01:06:55 | |
There's fever in the funkhouse now for Episode № 58 of I Dream of Cameras, in which we introduce a startling new segment: we ROLL THE DICE to choose from a bumper crop of listener-suggested topics. Tune in ‘cause the deuce is still wild! Cameras of 1965: and something else that came out in 1965 Jeff saw the Terry O’Neill show at Fotografiska… …went to Overland Photo Supply in Overland Park, Kansas… …and bought a Pentax Spotmatic F for cheap! you K1000 devotees are crazy! Gabe did a nighttime photo shoot at Mel’s Diner on Sunset with his beloved Nikon D700, experimenting with flash Jeff got the first roll back from his Minolta P’s, and likes the results… though he misses having backlight compensation Recommended documentary: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, about photographer Nan Goldin, streaming on Kanopy (free with your public library card) It’s been a year — how’s Polaroid Music going? A new segment where we roll the dice and pull from our list of undiscussed topics! Celebs with film cameras Our oddest cameras: Scale-focus cameras - Gabe can’t stand them! the prodigious mailbag! and finally: Chloe Kissner has a photography business, and her mom is buying a film camera | |||
| Episode 57 • P’s and Q’s | 29 Jul 2023 | 01:08:17 | |
In Episode № 57 of I Dream of Cameras, we mind our P’s — Minolta’s little-known pocket XPan killer — and Q’s — diving into a particularly prodigious mailbag. Also, Gabe’s gone digicam kray-zee, and Jeff’s still obsessed with that Nikon Year of the Dog camera. Tune in for all the chitter-chatter! Cameras of 1966: The troublesome but alluring Rolleiflex SL66 The unreleased yet tantalizing Pentax 220 The well-named Petri Racer Gabe’s recent acquisitions — he’s a digicam hipster! Nikon Coolpix S1000pj with built-in projector Jeff’s thoroughly besotted with the delightful panoramic point-and-shoot Minolta P's — it leaves the tab out when rewinding! And it comes in four other colors, red, blue, green and black — does he need 'em? Olympus Stylus, mirrored chrome edition — are these special finishes worth the premium? Revisiting the Nikon FM2/T Year of the Dog camera — the price continues to plummet, but the dog looks like the dogecoin Shiba Inu, so does that ruin it? Gabe’s recent use of the Leica M6 on the WGA picket line reminded him how nice it is to use a lighter, less bulky camera eBay annoyances, suspicious sellers… and our super-prodigious mailbag! | |||
| Episode 56 • A Night at the Opera | 15 Jul 2023 | 01:03:31 | |
“On Wednesday evening, at the start of the opera in the St. Margarethen quarry, the unbelievable happened: Carmen survived.” And this is just the start of Episode № 56 of I Dream of Cameras, which features a harrowing escape from certain death, an enigmatic Central European supermodel, exotic cameras from East Germany and Czechoslovakia, and Jeff Bridges! Tune in for all the intrigue. On the final night of his Central European trip, Jeff was almost killed at an outdoor performance of Carmen Cameras of 1967: More on Jeff’s recent observation of fashion shoots, including two different professionals’ use of the Olympus Stylus Look for many behind-the-scenes XPan shots on Jeff’s Instagram Gabe finally found his long-lost Leica R6.2… he’d sold it to LA Film Camera! Our composer Fred Coury went to an LA Photography Club meetup and got hooked The Argus C3 is terrible — fight us on this! On Alan Peres's recommendation, Jeff visited FotoŠkoda in Prague and it was incredible Picked up a Zeiss Pentacon FM and a Carl Zeiss Jena 35mm f2.4 Flektogon lens In Český Krumlov, Jeff visited the fascinating Museum Fotoatelier Seidel… …and found a Czech-made Meopta Stereo-Mikroma at a local antique store Gabe got a black Olympus OM-2… …and a Nikon D700… …and is seeking a waist-level finder for his Contax 645 The challenges of shooting film abroad: do you wrestle with unsympathetic airport security personnel? Ship your film home and risk it getting x-rayed along the way? Process it locally? After equivocating for days, Jeff rolled the dice and took 18 rolls to the lab at FotoŠkoda… and it was a smashing success! Also: Portra 400 is totally worth it, and the XPan is a great travel camera Exciting news: a new Widelux is inbound from Jeff and Susan Bridges and the team at Silvergrain Classics While the Widelux has a 126° field of view, the XPan with 45mm lens covers 71° — is that panoramic? What do we think of the Minolta P’s and other “fake” panoramic 35mm cameras which merely mask the frame? Finally, a dip into our prodigious mailbag! | |||
| Episode 55 • Vienna Calling | 25 Jun 2023 | 01:03:59 | |
Hello, oh-oh, Vienna calling! Jeff’s in the City of Dreams for Episode № 55 of I Dream of Cameras, featuring talk of travel, model shoots and being trailed by paparazzi. Do they swoon for the XPan? Find out in this globe-spanning dispatch! Jeff’s in Vienna, Austria for this one! Cameras of 1968: Gabe’s been going to a lot of camera meetups ‘cause Jeff has abandoned him Jeff talks about the nature of his globetrotting adventure: Bratislava, Brno, Vienna, Prague, Karlovy Vary… Photographing picturesque cities, being trailed by paparazzi The cameras he brought: the Hasselblad XPan and the Olympus XA4 Macro The XPan opens doors! photographers notice it — it’s not a dilettante’s camera — and this has led to some fascinating conversations Gabe’s had a similar experience with Rollei TLRs The XPan is a surprisingly great travel camera — between behind-the-scenes stuff and exotic Central European cities, Jeff’s burning through two or three rolls of Kodak Portra 400 a day Kodak Ultramax 400 was cheaper but a bit disappointing also in the queue: Portra 160 and FPP Color 125 (a.k.a. Svema) Jeff’s getting an extraordinary insight into the collaboration between model and photographer on a fashion shoot yesterday’s photo shoot was with Leica Ambassador Pat Domingo, who used a Leica SL2 Reporter and a custom black chrome Hermes edition Leica M10-D with red leather and a 35mm Summicron that belonged to his father Gabe had some struggles to get back in sync with his black-paint Leica M4 Jeff’s pretty good at judging exposure — are you? Gabe’s also been out shooting with the Mamiya RZ67, the Hasselblad 501cm and the Rolleiflex 2.8E2 And he’s fascinated by the work of Saul Leiter And he’s still enjoying the black Canonflex RM and Pentacon Six TL Jeff’s favorite black-and-white film is Double-X 250, a GREAT stock which for some reason isn’t commercially available (except through Cinestill) — buy a 100-foot roll from Ultrafine Online and start bulk-loading! Jeff’s East Coast lab of choice: picturehouse + smalldarkroom in Chelsea, NYC and finally, a dip into Das Prodigious Mailbag! | |||
| Episode 54 • Imogen Cunningham Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle | 11 Jun 2023 | 01:00:30 | |
We’re Feckless in Seattle for Episode № 54 of I Dream of Cameras, which features a visit to an amazing local camera shop, Gabe’s adventures at Los Angeles photography meetups, a dip into our perpetually prodigious mailbag, talk of Mamiyas and Pentacons and Pentaxes, and more! Gabe reviews a few key cameras of 1969: Hasselblad 500 EL Apollo edition A dip into the prodigious mailbag Gabe’s visit to a recent Los Angeles Photography Club meetup Also, check out your local Beers and Cameras photowalk Gabe's preferred shooters these days: the black Canonflex RM and Pentacon Six TL Jeff's results from shooting the Heavenly concert in London: could pushed HP5 be better than Kodak or Ilford 3200? Jeff’s Mamiya 35mm SLR saga: the 2000 DTL improbably works perfectly, the 1000 DTL’s meter is dead, the 55mm f1.4 lens is radioactive A Lacquer-Stik (black or white) is a very useful tool for restoring camera logos Jeff's visit to the amazing Shot on Film Store in north Seattle, and what he bought there: a gorgeous black Pentax H3 Konica 40mm f1.8 pancake Olympus A16 flash for the Olympus XA series Preparations for upcoming Central European trip incl. fear of taking a loaded camera through airport security ‘cause they won’t hand-check it how does Jeff post swipeable panoramas to Instagram? the Swipestagram app Fred Coury got a Leica Q2! | |||
| Episode 53 • Can I Get a Witness | 26 May 2023 | 01:04:23 | |
New York, London, Paris, Munich… there’s nowhere I Dream of Cameras won’t go in pursuit of our elusive dream camera. In Episode № 53, Jeff is off to London and the Photographica ’23 photo fair, while Gabe treks to Ventura, California in search of one of the last great camera shops. Also, one of us actually handles the rare and nose-bleedingly expensive Ilford Witness! Tune in for all the Pop Muzik! A week after returning from Paris, Jeff impulsively jetted off to London for the reunion of his friend Cathy's band Heavenly Brought a small Peak Design bag, the Everyday Sling 5L, a birthday gift from Gabe Did some concert photography with the XPan, using both Ilford Delta 3200 and Kodak TMax P3200, plus HP5 pushed to 1600 Fortuitously this was the same weekend as Photographica 2023, an incredible camera show! Met Chroma Steve and Kosmo Stephen and Jimmy Hickford and Richard, saw an Alpa 9f, an XPan II... and an Ilford Witness! What'd Jeff buy? A really good gift: a Rollei 35 B plus some Kosmo Foto Agent Shadow 400. Listeners: what’s a good $100 camera for the 25-year-old son of a friend? Meanwhile, he failed to land his white whale, which nobody even bothered to guess at: an Alpa 10s More travel travails: Heathrow airport security refused to hand-check any film below ISO 400, and carped about the number of rolls Gabe ordered a new lens: the Canon 50mm f1.4 Leica screw-mount …and visited the mighty Dexter’s Camera in Ventura, California Jeff impulsively snagged two Mamiyas: the rare and desirable 2000 DTL and the plentiful and unloved 1000 DTL Gabe is fascinated by photographer Dominique Issermann Finally, a dip into our prodigious mailbag! | |||
| Episode 52 • Liberté, Égalité, Photographie | 12 May 2023 | 01:03:25 | |
Bonjour nos amis! Play The Marseillaise, play it, because your letter of transit is here: Episode № 52 of I Dream of Cameras, “Liberté, Égalité, Photographie.” Jeff’s back from Paris with tales of the XPan and exotic camera shops, plus his abrupt conversion to the cult of the camera bag, while back in the States, Gabe splurged on a sexy black Canonflex. Connectez-vous pour une conversation amusante! Gabe got a sexy new black Canonflex RM Jeff’s continuing XPan saga: The XPan II had problems, so back it went to the dealer… who put it right back on the site without fixing it! what Jeff learned from his brief time with the XPan II: the O.G. is better! however, even after repair it kept squeaking and locking up, prompting the impulsive purchase of a backup XPan at K&M Camera in NYC (love those guys!) Other Paris trip preparation: the backup camera: a Leitz Minolta CL with the 40mm Summicron A camera bag (Peak Design Everyday Sling 10L V2) from REI — now he’s a convert! Portra 400, which is pricey! at Paris airport security, they refused to hand-check the cameras, so Jeff had to force-rewind the XPan and waste half a roll Paris camera shops: Odéon Occasions Photo, where Jeff met Christopher Nisperos instead of toting eleven rolls of film back to LA, Jeff took it to a local lab, picturehouse + smalldarkroom, Sissi Lu’s favorite — no extra charge for pano! watch Jeff’s Instagram for the remarkable results! high-end compact autofocus camera prices are skyrocketing! A Mamiya MSX 500 at B&H Photo prompted memories of the 500DTL and 1000DTL | |||
| Episode 51 • Photo Walk, Photo Sit, Photo Play Dead | 18 Apr 2023 | 00:55:51 | |
It’s back to the coalface for Episode № 51 of I Dream of Cameras, featuring notable cameras of 1973 (uh, the early ’70s), amnesty for the prodigious mailbag, a recap of Gabe’s recent portrait shoot and a photowalk at the Getty Center, and the strange and terrible saga of Jeff’s XPan. Topics discussed include: A recap of our banner 50th episode and the chaotic events of past three months Gabe presents… the cameras of 1972, which bear a striking resemblance to the cameras of 1973: the Olympus OM-1, the Polaroid SX-70, the Nikon F2 and the Rollei A26 Despite the rapturous response to the 50th — all credit to Chris Chu — a lot was left on the cutting-room floor, including the prodigious mailbag, so… amnesty! Gabe did a portrait shoot at iHeartRadio for a couple of friends — how do you learn about lighting setups? Do you guys apply firmware updates to your digital cameras? Gabe loves his Canon EOS 3 and Hasselblad 501cm; Jeff’s EOS 5 experience soured him on autofocus cameras forever (and maybe Canon, too) Victoria of Tiny Camera Store fame turned Gabe on to the Chinon Auto 3001 Multifocus and the Voigtländer Bessa II with the Heliar lens The new Los Angeles Photography Club had a photo walk at the Getty Center — what makes a good photo walk? would you prefer a “photo sit”? — also, Jeff loathes both the Getty’s architecture and its architect However, we saw a great photography exhibit by Carrie Mae Weems and Dawoud Bey And now… a SAGA! Jeff’s beloved Hasselblad XPan froze up mere days before a trip to Paris, and even though it unfroze, his confidence is shattered. His deranged solution? Order the incrementally improved XPan II as a backup! A rundown of the differences between the XPan and XPan II (pro tip: they didn’t fix the bad paint) A discussion of the concept of the “backup camera” Other panoramic cameras are nice, but don’t kid yourselves, the XPan reigns supreme. Fight me on this! Any photographic advice for a first-time visitor to Paris? Email us, you know where! Gabe has begun processing his own film, and can’t load the reels in the changing bags without closing his eyes to make it “extra dark” The eBay “startTime” hack doesn’t work anymore, so what to do? Sort by Time: newly listed, and it’ll show the date the auction was posted Gabe vows to shoot with the Graflex Super D — send him your tips! | |||
| Episode 50 • And I Can Kick | 02 Apr 2023 | 00:36:56 | |
It’s here, folks — the long (and we do mean long) awaited Episode № 50 of I Dream of Cameras! And courtesy of the filmmaking talents of our friend Chris Chu, it’s our very first video show! Listen to it wherever you pluck your pods, or watch at https://tinyurl.com/IDOC50. Topics include: notable cameras of '73 when Jeff hit a bump on the LA River bike path, his XPan flew into the air... and the accursed strap saved his bacon the rare and exotic Alpa Surgical 81 - one shutter speed, no finder or meter, only 102 units made Gabe's Graflex and Exakta, and his doomed pursuit of the Olympus OM-4 Gabe's quest for the sharpest lens... as opposed to the lovely softness of the Rectaflex We regret to inform you that Polaroid is at it again: David Bowie i-Type film 50 episodes in, what have we learned? | |||
| Episode 49 • IDOC Unplugged | 02 Feb 2023 | 01:03:04 | |
Episode № 49 of I Dream of Cameras, “IDOC Unplugged,” is our first unedited, unsmoothed, unexpurgated episode — meaning we didn’t have time to do our usual polish before releasing it to the teeming millions. Will you notice the difference as we chat about Minox, our camera shelves, seller’s remorse, recent photographic adventures, and the contents of the moderate mailbag? Tune in and find out! Jeff has two new jobs, so this is our unplugged show - what does that mean? follow-ups to our acclaimed Minox episode: Jim Anderson makes Minox reels JP O'Connor says the 15mm lens for Minox = 48-49mm on a 35mm camera our Instagram pic of Jeff's camera shelf is our most-liked post ever - let’s see yours! pangs of regret after unloading lotsa cameras what we’re on the hunt for the allure of trading Gabe’s experiments with motion blur Gabe shot a friend’s wedding! our moderate mailbag a cool book: Album 1958-1988: The Portraits of Duane Michals | |||
| Episode 75 • We Finally Accept Some Praise | 23 Jul 2024 | 01:18:25 | |
One of the Best Photography Podcasts To Listen To In 2024 (per Amateur Photographer magazine) returns to bask in some praise for a change! In this blockbuster XL episode, we run down our travels in Europe and Canada, recap recent celebrity photo shoots, exult over exotic gear acquisitions, and dive to the bottom of our Prodigious and Informative Mailbag™! Tune in to see what the fuss is about! THE BIGGEST NEWS: our smash hit podcast earned global acclaim, as Amateur Photographer named us one of the best photography podcasts of 2024! Thanks, Jess Miller! you’d be wise to consult Lina Bessonova’s invaluable hand check guide before traveling Jeff once again experienced sudden XPan battery death after less than a month (= 30 rolls), so mock his spreadsheet at your peril a Czech photographer picked on Jeff for daring to do portraits with a pano camera - also, he failed to make the cut for Brooklyn Film Camera’s photo show - the shame! finding film in far-flung locations is HARD, so stock up Jeff recounts an extremely bad experience with a Rome photo lab not to be out-traveled, Gabe went to Canada with his Leica M10 and Noctilux - what’s more, he: …visited Leitz Road in Midland, Ontario so his lens could see its birthplace …hung out with Jessica Devic at Youthful Vengeance Coffee in Toronto - she’s a tremendous photographer, check her out …toured Memento Film Lab in Toronto …shot Claire Hinkley with the peerless Olympus 35 RC and monstrous Mamiya C330 …and had a Fred Coury rock ’n’ roll idyll at the Rainbow and Whisky a Go Go with Taime Downe of Faster Pussycat Jeff harpooned a long-sought white whale you’ve never heard of: the Petri Color 35 Custom Gabe bonded with a TSA agent at Toronto Airport who turned out to be a film shooter behold the B&H Lego set! check out the Half Frame List of half-cookie cameras in current production we’ll be at the Bruce Gilden and Vivian Maier shows at Fotografiska in August and finally, our Prodigious and Informative Mailbag™, featuring plenty of fierce clapback about the Pentax 17 | |||
| Episode 48 • Minox Idyll | 18 Jan 2023 | 01:02:24 | |
Half a cookie? Try one-twelfth of a cookie! After a deep dive into our bulging mailbag, we go big on one of the smallest cameras ever made: the mighty Minox! Tune in for all the fun! OK, we’re late and here’s why: Illness, torrential rain, power outages, travel…! We won the Sunny award for Best Sunny 16 Presents Podcast! Gabe went to B&H in New York and didn’t buy anything, not even a bag Meanwhile, Jeff did not go to Antarctica - those who have been, please tell us, is it worth it? Jeff unloaded some gear (including the 90mm Summicron) with the KEH guys and is completely delighted — it paid for the XPan! Gabe’s M6 is under a doctor's care Our beyond-prodigious mailbag, including discussion of the new Pentax "film camera project" And now… the Minox idyll! That is a great pun! The Riga Minox, designed by Walter Zapp the Minox developing tank, enlarger — it’s a whole system! Shooting with a Minox is different! renewing our IDOC photo assignment: shoot a portrait of a friend, shoot a portrait of a stranger — post on Instagram and tag us to be amplified! Jeff is performing February 12th at the Ruskin Theatre in Santa Monica — follow this link, click on See A Show, then choose Library Girl | |||
| Episode 47 • Beyond the Valley of Marie Nikondo | 16 Dec 2022 | 00:58:45 | |
Part Three of the trilogy! Marie Nikondo has lain waste to Jeff’s camera collection — now the question is, how to dispose of the booty? What’s the best way to divest yourself of camera equipment — sell online? Donate to salivating photography students? Give to a potential paramour? Find all the answers in this holiday classic. was the Shroud of Turin the first contact print? Jeff sold three lenses and one camera — thanks, listeners! with the proceeds, he bought a vintage boombox and a 28mm f2.8 LW-Nikkor, an above-water lens for the Nikonos posting panoramas to Instagram? check out the extremely useful (and free) Instagram Swipe Panorama iPhone shortcut pushing film: Gabe has, Jeff never has! our prodigious mailbag, including shots fired about the proper pronunciation of “Nikon”! and now the main event: how to divest! eBay, Craigslist, FaceBook Marketplace, and what to do when you fear people the KEH option — in person at their Atlanta HQ, with their buyers when they come to your neighborhood, or shipping them gear for a quote? (there are similar protocols at Adorama, B&H and other online retailers) local camera shops the local film community: Beers and Cameras, meetups, etc. ever had a bad experience as a seller? the reseller’s creed: if you’re not using and enjoying an item, its value to you is not what you paid for it, nor what it might fetch on the open market… it’s zero an alternate to selling: donating! The Film Photography Projects’s school donation program is great Gabe’s sudden brainwave: an I Dream of Cameras Garage Sale! are y’all in? another alternative: give a film camera to the new parents of a child or a puppy — or a gift for your date! your IDOC photo assignment: shoot a portrait of a friend, shoot a portrait of a stranger — post on Instagram and tag us to be amplified! ’tis the season of giving, so why not check out our dazzling merch? Chris Chu is hosting a photowalk in Venice, California on Sunday, December 18 Gabe got a $50 Mark O'Brien surprise package — which is another fun way to divest yourself of stuff! Still available from the Greenstein collection — email or DM if intrigued! Bell & Howell Dial 35 (with case) Bolex H16 Reflex 16mm movie camera (with case and accessories) Bolex 16mm lenses: 10mm f1.6 Kern-Paillard Switar 17.5mm-70mm f2.4 SOM Berthiot Pan-Cinor (with case, viewfinder and filters) 25mm f1.8 SOM Berthiot Lytar 75mm f2.8 Kern-Paillard Yvar Canon Color Demi (red) Canon Color Demi (blue; with cap and case) Canon Color Demi (white; with case) Canon Dial Rapid (nonfunctional) Canon 110 ED 20 (with case) Canon AE-1 with 55mm f1.2 FD Kodak Bantam Special Kodak No. 2 Folding Autographic Brownie Konica Acom-1 with 50mm f1.7 Hexanon AR Leica M3 (single-stroke) Leica M lenses: 50mm f1.1 7Artisans (chrome) 50mm f2 Dual Range Summicron (with goggles and two cases) 90mm f2 APO-Summicron-M (with box, case and caps) Minox B (with case and chain) Minox BL (metric scale; with case and chain) Nikon F with Photomic T Finder, Prism Finder and Action Finder and 50mm f1.4 Nikkor-S Auto and 55mm f3.5 Micro-Nikkor Nikon Speed Magny Nikonos III with 35mm f2.5 Nikkor Olympus MFT lenses 9mm f8.0 fisheye body cap lens 14-42mm f3.5-5.6 M.Zuiko EZ ED MSC (silver, with caps) Pentax Auto 110 Super with Pentax 110 flash Pentax 110 lenses: 18mm f2.8 Pan Focus 20-40mm f2.8 Zoom 24mm f2.8 50mm f2.8 70mm f2.8 Pentax Electro Spotmatic with 55mm f1.8 SMC Takumar Pentax 6×7 MLU (with TTL finder and wooden grip) Pentax 6x7 lenses: 45mm f4 SMC Pentax-6×7 (with caps) 105mm f2.4 Super-Multi-Coated Takumar/6x7 (with caps) Petri Color 35 (black; with cap and case) Polaroid Big Swinger 3000 Land Camera Polaroid i-Zone (blue) + three packs of film Polaroid Snap (black) + several packs of Zink paper Voigtländer Perkeo I (first version, Vaskar lens, Pronto shutter, with case) | |||
| Episode 46 • Battle for the Planet of Marie Nikondo | 02 Dec 2022 | 00:56:25 | |
Part Two! We made it halfway through Jeff's camera-cull in our last episode, so Gabe/Marie Nikondo has returned to help him through the second half — including a few shocking surprises! But first... our once again prodigious mailbag! Jeff sold his 40mm Nokton Classic to a listener in NoCal and everyone's happy! heartbreak: our composer Fred’s Leica Q was stolen, he needs a Christmas miracle If you’re gonna praise us, praise us on iTunes! and vote for us in the Sunnies! And now, the main event: once again Gabe takes on the role of Marie Nikondo, forcing Jeff to phenotype his phenomenal photographic phantasmagoria. Among the items discussed (and feel free to make an offer): Olympus Pen F lenses: 25mm f2.8 G. Zuiko Auto-W (with caps and case) and 40mm f1.4 G. Zuiko Auto-S (with caps and case) Olympus Micro Four Thirds lenses: 9mm f8.0 fisheye body cap lens and 14-42mm f3.5-5.6 M.Zuiko EZ ED MSC (silver, with caps) Pentax Auto 110 Marron Pentax Auto 110 Super Pentax Auto 110 lenses: 18mm f2.8, 18mm f2.8 Pan Focus, 20-40mm f2.8 Zoom, 24mm f2.8, 50mm f2.8, 70mm f2.8 Pentax 110 flash Pentax 110 belt clips (two of ‘em) Pentax Electro Spotmatic with 55mm f1.8 SMC Takumar Pentax 6×7 MLU (with TTL finder and wooden grip) Pentax 6×7 lenses: 45mm f4 SMC Pentax-6×7 (with caps) and 105mm f2.4 Super-Multi-Coated Takumar/6x7 (with caps) Petri Color 35 (black; with cap and case) Polaroid Automatic 250 Land Camera (with closeup and portrait kits) Polaroid Big Swinger 3000 Land Camera Polaroid i-Zone (blue, with three packs of film) Polaroid Snap (black, with several packs of photo paper) Rectaflex Standard 1300, series 25000 with 50mm f2 Schneider-Kreuznach Xenon Robot Royal 24 Model III with Schneider-Kreuznach Xenar 45mm f2.8 Voigtländer Perkeo I (first version, Vaskar lens, Pronto shutter, with case) Voigtländer Vitessa L (version 1) Voigtländer Vito IIa (with case and accessory rangefinder) | |||
| Episode 45 • The Revenge of Marie Nikondo | 18 Nov 2022 | 01:00:10 | |
She's back! Everyone's favorite collection-culler returns, and this time she's out for blood! Jeff is contemplating a major purge, but those pesky ol' emotions keeps holding him back. Can Gabe/Marie help him see the righteous path and release his gear to the limitless legions of camera-craving Tessas? Tune in and find out! But first... a manageable mailbag! John-Michael Mendizza was the one who gave us the Pentax 6x7 grips - thanks, J-M! Gabe had a mishap... his cherished M6 is in the shop with a failing meter :( And now the main event: Gabe assumes the role of Marie Nikondo, cruelly coercing Jeff to cull his colossal camera caboodle. Among the items discussed (and feel free to make an offer, gang): Bell & Howell / Canon Dial 35 (with case) Bolex H16 Reflex 16mm movie camera (with case and accessories) 10mm f1.6 Kern-Paillard Switar 17.5mm-70mm f2.4 SOM Berthiot Pan-Cinor (with case, viewfinder and filters) 25mm f1.8 SOM Berthiot Lytar 75mm f2.8 Kern-Paillard Yvar Canon Color Demi (red) Canon Color Demi (blue; with cap and case) Canon Color Demi (white; with case) Canon 110 ED 20 (with case) Canon AE-1 with 55mm f1.2 FD and 50mm f1.4 FD Canon Dial Rapid Kodak Bantam Special Kodak No. 2 Folding Autographic Brownie Konica Acom-1 with 50mm f1.7 Hexanon AR Leica M3 (single-stroke) 40mm f1.4 Voigtländer Nokton Classic (with shade) 50mm f1.1 7Artisans (chrome) 50mm f2 Dual Range Summicron (with goggles and two cases) 90mm f2 APO-Summicron-M (with box, case and caps) Minox B (with case and chain) Minox BL (metric scale; with case and chain) Nikon F (with Photomic T Finder, Prism Finder and Action Finder) 50mm f1.4 Nikkor-S Auto 55mm f3.5 Micro-Nikkor Nikon Speed Magny Nikonos III with 28mm f3.5 UW-Nikkor (with caps) and that’s just the beginning! more to come in our next episode! | |||
| Episode 44 • Eyerolls and Rolleis | 04 Nov 2022 | 01:02:03 | |
After a dive into our prodigious mailbag, bulging with talk of the newly reissued Leica M6, we essay a sweeping survey of the mighty marque known as Rollei. Gabe has nine Rolleiflex TLRs; Jeff has a Rollei 35 and a Rolleiflex SL350. Tune in — it's a gas, gas, gas! we skipped Episode № 43, deal with it quite a prodigious mailbag! featuring: much talk of the newly reissued 2022 Leica M6, which is NOT a limited edition - worth noting: there’s a center dot between the two LED arrows in the viewfinder (à la the M6 TTL); no plastic shields under the strap lugs (‘cause the paint is hardier); the red dot says "Leitz" not "Leica"; it doesn't come in chrome; the only available finder is the .72; and the cost is $5,700. Who is this for? how ‘bout those high-end metal cassettes for bulk loading (e.g. FILCA and IXMOO, Shirley-Wellard, etc.) - are they any good? Jim Melcher made a video about stainless-steel reels Gabe’s Leica assignment / adventure, courtesy of the Leica Store Los Angeles Our Rollei show! Gabe has a slew of Rollei TLRs: 1938 Rolleicord 2b with Zeiss 3.5 lens 1939 Rolleicord 2c with Zeiss Triotar lens 1945 Rolleiflex Automat Model 2 which used to belong to renowned photographer Phil Stern 1954 Rolleicord 5 with Schneider-Kreuznach Xenar 3.5 1958 Rolleiflex 3.5C Planar 1958 Rolleiflex 3.5F Planar (his favorite) 1959 Rolleiflex 2.8E2 with Zeiss Triotar lens (his other favorite) ... Jeff has a 1959 Rolleiflex 3.5E … and Gabe also has: 1959 Rolleiflex 3.5C 1960 Rolleiflex 2.8F …and they all have different personalities! - they handle differently, and the hand-ground lenses render differently how TLRs change your relationship to the subject when shooting portraits next! in non-TLR news, Jeff loves his little Rollei 35 SE worth checking out: Zeno Felkl's Rollei 35 Project book and the mighty (and mighty hard to find) Rolleiflex SL350 is one of Jeff's favorite SLRs - the 50mm Planar is sublime The other Jeff Greenstein stole a quarter billion in a tax fraud scheme, so we will henceforth refer to him as "tax fraud felon" | |||
| Episode 42½ • Cheap Camera Challenge (A Bonus Episode) | 27 Oct 2022 | 00:20:00 | |
Gabe has a cold, so we’re bringing you this unaired Sunny 16 segment from April 2021: Jeff and Gabe suggest excellent cameras you can find for under $30… in April 2021. Discussed: Minolta AL-F rangefinder Konica Autoreflex TC a.k.a. Acom-1 (which Jeff has actually purchased since this segment was recorded!) Mamiya/Sekor 500TL, 1000TL, 528TL Canon FT, TL, and the very strange EX EE Unsexy SLRs: Miranda Sensorex, Chinon, Ricoh Olympus Pen EE-3 - the ultimate half-a-cookie camera | |||
| Episode 42 • In a World | 14 Oct 2022 | 01:03:39 | |
Find the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything in I Dream of Cameras 42. New cameras, old cameras, new old cameras, old new cameras, and ways to hack eBay — it’s all here! best wishes to Graeme, who’s stepping away from Sunny 16 for a bit our prodigious mailbag Jeff’s 90mm Summicron ASPH is still available - message him and snap it up! The new CubePan from Chroma Camera looks intriguing Gabe’s trying to leave the house with only one camera… and a spare in the car the rumored Leica M6 reissue is for real… but only 500 pieces? Gabe wants to trade his chrome Leica M6TTL for a black M6 - hit him up! the late John Foster literally wrote the book on Olympus half-frame cameras, and on October 20 his personal collection is up for auction - stock up on those half-a-cookies! Film prices are too high, but now Kodak’s seeking more film technicians - will it help? What’s more interesting to you, a brand-new 2022 film camera or a good vintage one? and what does this bode for the future of new film cameras? Gabe recounts his visit in San Clemente with Trev and Phil from The Darkroom and Juan from Beers and Cameras… …which spurred a fixation with high-end compact point-and-shoots like the Minolta TC-1 - compare and contrast with the Yashica T4 Jeff’s recent developing mishaps with CineStill Df96 - it drops stone dead after 16 rolls also, his frustration with bulk loading has reached a fever pitch: even with cassettes salvaged from a one-hour-lab, the felt light traps can be leaky! rescue us, Ethan Moses! Differences between the Hasselblad XPan and the XPan II fantastic eBay tip! here’s how to find the start date of a Buy It Now auction, to assess how open the seller might be to an offer: tinyurl.com/auctionstarttime we encourage people to contribute to the Sunny 16 Presents channel - if we can do it, so can you! now go out with one camera and one roll of film and just shoot! or use a half-frame camera so you don’t censor yourself so much - allow yourself to play and experiment… and print your stuff! give prints as gifts! ’tis the season! | |||
| Episode 41 • Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fashion | 01 Oct 2022 | 01:04:05 | |
See? 41! The centerpiece of this episode is Gabe’s recap of his adventures at New York Fashion Week, but there’s also our newly engorged mailbag, Jeff’s latest impulse buy, new products from Leica and Polaroid, and an epic rant about the latter. We are the goon squad and we're coming to town, beep-beep! the newly engorged mailbag A blockbuster recap of Gabe’s New York Fashion Week adventures: shooting the Canon R5, the Leica Q and the Widelux F7 portrait sessions with Raven-Symoné and Kal Penn and many, many trips to B&H Jeff’s Atlanta recap: snagged a 35mm f2.8 PC-Nikkor tilt-shift lens at KEH rediscovered old negatives from childhood and found some old pamphlets from Kodak: Recovering Silver from Photographic Materials, how to make pinhole cameras Jeff’s impulse buy: the Canon Sure Shot Owl Date Looks like Leica is reissuing and maybe updating the original M6! we regret to inform you that Polaroid is at it again: Polaroid Music - in the An Impossible Project documentary, Florian Kaps asks, "what is the smell of Facebook?" - these are crazy people!! we are feeble on Twitter - do you care? new listeners: check out our dazzling array of merch, the best of any podcast on the planet shoot us a review on iTunes, babies - it helps people find us thank-yous and goodnights | |||
| Episode 40 • This Is 40 | 15 Sep 2022 | 01:01:02 | |
A signal show in which we finally step out of the shadow of Sunny 16 Presents and get our own podcast feed! Now you can search for I Dream of Cameras wherever you pluck your podcasts. In addition, we empty the mailbag at light speed, discuss Gabe’s preparations to shoot New York Fashion Week, talk of recent impulse buys, compare the Widelux and the XPan, carp at absurd public photography restrictions, muse upon the mystery of camera serial numbers, praise the babyish plastic developing reels, and reflect on what if anything we have learned after 40 episodes. thanks to the lords of Sunny 16, we now have our own podcast feed! a lightning round to empty our prodigious mailbag - limit one sentence per email! Gabe’s about to leave for New York Fashion Week - here's the final list of cameras he's bringing: Leica Q Canon R5 Leica M10 Widelux F7 Rolleiflex 2.8F Yashica T4 Gabe's kit for a portrait shoot with Kal Penn: the R5, the Q and the M10 to fund Gabe’s recent impulse buy of the Canon R5, he actually sold some stuff: a Contax T2 to Eoin Macken and a bunch of other gear (Hasselblad 503cx, Minolta Autocord, Leica R6.2) to our friends at LA Film Camera on the same trip, Jeff failed to unload a mint-in-box 90mm f2 Summicron ASPH with caps, case and original papers - any takers? Jeff’s about to make another trip to Atlanta and KEH — last time, he looked at a ton of cool stuff (thanks Sam) and came away with a 35mm Nikkor for his SP rangefinder this time he has his eye on a 35mm f2.8 PC-Nikkor tilt-shift lens to use with the XPan Jeff’s recent impulse buy: a Konica Acom-1 a.k.a. Autoreflex TC - what is “automatic” exposure, and why do we judge those who use it? the difference between shooting the Widelux (serendipitous) and the XPan (deliberate) no cameras allowed at the Malibu Chili Cookoff, and no cameras on tripods in LA's public parks! wtf? serial numbers - do you find them interesting? Jeff sure does! Jeff used the Paterson System 4 with its babyish plastic developing reels.. and he loved it! forty episodes in, what have we learned? | |||
| Episode 39 • Laverne & Shirley Go to Fashion Week | 31 Aug 2022 | 01:09:46 | |
A blockbuster XL episode in which our friends Chris Chu and Rafael Hernandez help Gabe decide which cameras to bring to New York Fashion Week. Also, yet another dive into our prodigious mailbag, and HUGE NEWS about the podcast — and we don’t just mean our signature yogurt flavor at Menchie’s! announcing the launch of our own podcast feed for Episode 40 the prodigious mailbag re-grew like a sliced planarian! topics include: the film shortage the photographer’s Proust Questionnaire If you had to cut your collection down to ten cameras…? dreams of I Dream of Cameras a great camera-bag story a new thriller featuring a film photographer: Exposure 36 the Nikonos in the Vietnam War do you insure your cameras? moving film from camera to camera Chris and Rafael give Gabe sage advice, then Jeff chimes in like a moron as you get psyched for our 40th episode, why not try our signature Menchie’s frozen yogurt flavor, I Dream of Cookies and Cream? | |||
| Episode 74 • Ubriaco A Roma | 01 Jul 2024 | 01:01:41 | |
Two glasses of white wine reduces Jeff to drunkenly raving about travel cameras, airport hand-check injustices and (predictably) his usual cast of bêtes noires. Meanwhile, stone-cold-sober Gabe offers sharp, reasoned takes on the new Pentax 17 and the cameras of 1955. Tune in to Episode № 74 (not 75) for all the mayhem! Jeff recorded this episode from Rome after imbibing two glasses of cheap white wine, which is why he keeps calling it Episode 75 Why the two cameras Jeff picked for his extended European trip — Olympus XA4 and Hasselblad XPan — have been ideal Lisbon Airport is the worst — they abjectly refused to hand-check Jeff’s film! Jeff had 18 rolls developed at Ars Imago in Rome, and here’s what he learned: Kodak Portra 160 needs tons of light Gabe unexpectedly presents: Cameras in Focus 1955! A $200,000 Leica accessory the Leica UW underwater housing Gabe visited our lovely friends at LA Film Camera and you should too The boys drop some Strong Opinions™ about the new Pentax 17 half-frame film camera Gabe considered trading his Rolleiflex 2.8F for a Plaubel Makina and finally opted not to… …but because he’s Gabe, he stumbled across a garage sale in Pacific Palisades and came away with all this for only $200: Topcon RE Super with three lenses Gabe revisits his chronic bouts of which-camera-to-bring anxiety We drop a small I Dream of Pizzas travel tip: the best pizza Jeff’s girlfriend has ever had was at Ai Marmi in Rome A dip into our paltry yet Prodigious Mailbag™ Gabe reacts to the NY Times article about film shooters trashing their negatives And Jeff offers one more shout for the RitchieCam, an iPhone app that can emulate the XPan | |||
| Episode 38 • A Prodigious…! | 13 Aug 2022 | 01:03:19 | |
We always encourage the teeming millions to converse with us via eye dream of cam rahs at gee male dot calm, and in this episode, we attempt to empty our long-ignored and prodigious… mailbag! Topics include: travel cameras backup cameras how many cameras do you have loaded simultaneously? (and how to keep track of same) budget alternatives to the gold-plated cameras we all covet exercising your cameras the Nikonos V the Olympus OM-1 and OM-2 series the sublime beauty of Kodak Panatomic-X and our delightful new “half a cookie” swag | |||
| Episode 37 • This Is the Day of the XPanding Man | 29 Jul 2022 | 00:57:49 | |
A VERY SPECIAL EPISODE recapping Jeff’s absurd acquisition of a Hasselblad XPan, and more importantly, his trip to England and Wales to meet all four hosts of the Sunny 16 Podcast! In our last episode, Chris Chu talked Jeff out of getting a Hasselblad XPan, so how did he end up impulsively buying one on his first day in London? A magical trip to Camera City, the very same place where Jeff found his sacred Alpa 11si ten years ago... and what should be on the shelf but an XPan? And now, the circuit of the Sunnies… Drinks with Ade at the Camera Museum in London A side trip to the Photographer’s Gallery and their incredible film wall Darkroom work with Rachel at her studio at Northern Lights in Liverpool Touring Anglesey and Portmeirion, Wales with Clare Browsing vintage cameras with Graeme at the Cameras London stall at Portobello Road An underdiscussed aspect of the XPan: the standard 45mm f/4 lens is incredible! In other news… where’s all the film? And why’s the film we have so expensive? Gabe has set up an on-deck circle of underused cameras… …and has been snapping up photography books Thought experiment: if the boys had to cut their collections down to only ten cameras, which would they choose? Next episode, we tackle the prodigious mailbag! | |||
| Episode 36 • Make It Wit Chu | 13 Jul 2022 | 01:03:00 | |
Jeff is on location! Gabe’s just back from the frozen north! And they still manage to find time for a rollicking conversation with photographer and YouTuber Chris Chu. Tune in for the fascinating result — we did indeed rollick! Gabe’s adventure at Downtown Camera in Toronto with Jessica Devic which camera(s!) Jeff decided to bring on his trip to Atlanta and the UK: Rollei 35 SE and Minox LX Polaroid’s new Green Duochrome is great! a moderate dip into our moldering mailbag, with more talk of travel cameras and bulk-loading Ektachrome Our rollicking interview with Chris Chu: his abrupt decision to abandon a computer science degree in San Francisco to pursue his crazy dream of a photography career in Los Angeles his journey into film photography, starting with the Canon P and then into medium format with the Pentax 645, the Mamiya RB67 Pro SD and the Mamiya RZ67 Chris tries to convince Jeff to get a Big Ugly Box medium-format camera his favorite film stocks Portra 160 and Ektar 100 shooting color when you're color-blind what fueled his growing camera-collecting addiction ...but why no 35mm SLRs? what he likes about the rangefinder shooting experience zone focusing: setting a hyperfocal distance and training yourself to use it camera bags — and how many cameras do you carry at once? half-frame cameras: the half-a-cookie debate is reignited! why own the same camera (Leica M6) in both chrome and black? he's flirting with the Leica M-A - Jeff tries to save him by pitching the M3, M2 and CL how do you refrain from getting that next camera? — he doesn’t! he just bought a Hasselblad 501CM! Gabe shows off his 500ELM, an impulse buy at B&H Photo — it’s the Leica M5 of the Hasselblad line Jeff implores Chris to talk him out of the Hasselblad XPan… and he does! whaddya need it for? you have the Widelux! if you have to give away all but one of your cameras, which would you keep? the RZ67! | |||
| Episode 35 • mm (feat. Talya Adams) | 28 Jun 2022 | 01:03:02 | |
The centerpiece of this episode is a delightful interview with motorcycle-ridin’ L.A. photographer Talya Adams. But first! Gabe’s bare-bones kit for his upcoming Canada trip: Leica M4 and M10 The Nikonos V is nice-konos! - let’s hear from Nikonos shooters! the mailbag, featuring: more talk of travel gear do you have cute names for your cameras? homebrew copystands the mysterious allure of the 40mm focal length (Summicron, Hexanon, Pentax, Zuiko, Ultron, etc.) Talya Adams interview: how she got into film photography her thrift-store Rollei 35 S and the Rollei B 35 that replaced it her LA shop of choice: Walter’s Camera Repairs learning her way around the exposure triangle learning to develop her own film her love for TMax 400 capturing personality in portraiture work her next camera: the Canon AE-1 Program how her admiration for Jane Bown led her to the Olympus OM-1 and then the OM-4 and the OM-10 what led her into medium-format? her experiences with the Mamiya RB67, Mamiya 645, Pentax 645… before getting her own Pentax 6x7 her first rangefinder cameras: the Olympus 35RC and Canon QL17 not much love for the Canon P - she prefers the 7s “buying the dip” on eBay how many cameras is excessive? her key shooters: Leica M3, Hasselblad 500C, Pentax 6x7 and Yashica A why should Jeff want a Big Ugly Box camera like the 500C? because it will make him a better person the philosophy which underlies her YouTube channel: develop your eye | |||
| Episode 34 • Call Mr. Lee | 14 Jun 2022 | 00:59:46 | |
The jewel of this episode is our interview with Trev Lee, an excellent photographer and the social media voice of The Darkroom lab in San Clemente. But first! Oskar Barnack’s 1923 0-series Leica sold at auction for $12 million Gabe sold two Bronicas at LA Film Camera in Studio City the return of The Thingy, a adapter which lets you replace the obsolete PX675 mercury battery with a cheap 675 zinc-air hearing-aid battery how many cameras do you have loaded simultaneously? an abbreviated mailbag! our interview with Trev Lee: trading his beloved Leica M5 for a Rolleiflex TLR from Gabe’s collection which of his 20 cameras does he bring on a shoot? the allure of the Nikon FM3a - how did he acquire one, how did it vault to the top of his list, and why is it so great? black vs. chrome cameras his favorite lens for the Nikon: the 40mm Voigtlander Ultron the rest of his Nikon lens arsenal are all by Voigtländer! the 28mm Skopar, the 58mm Nokton, and the 90mm APO-Lanthar are rising costs changing the hobby? the Canon Rebel and Elan as good affordable starter cameras are people printing more? what’s the value of a print? and furthermore, what’s the emotional component of photography for him? does working at a photography business siphon off some of the joy? how do you balance the demands of the job with your personal work? the culture of The Darkroom, their dedication to customer service and his role as their social media manager Trev’s website | |||
| Episode 33 • Valentine’s Day | 03 Jun 2022 | 01:03:20 | |
The mailbag features talk of travel cameras, copy stands, and the allure of the Nikonos system. But the jewel of this episode is an interview with France-born, Dublin-based street shooter Valentine de Villemeur. Tune in for insights into her favorite cameras, her shooting style, and her development as a photographer. John-Michael Mendizza’s copy stand solution: a koolehaoda rail Looking for an inexpensive way to shoot Nikon glass? Check out the oft-neglected Nikonos system — you can score a body and two lenses for under $150! Valentine de Villemeur interview — her website and Instagram Finally: what’s up with Portra 400? We can’t find it anywhere! | |||
| Episode 32 • We Gotcha Covid | 16 May 2022 | 01:02:06 | |
Happy birthday to our patient patron Graeme! Gabe’s COVID ordeal A magical mailbag! Gabe’s recent shooting adventures: a daylong shoot with actor Brenton Thwaites, and Retta’s pink party Jeff’s been a-travelin’, so let’s talk about the travel-camera conundrum. His favorite is the Olympus XA4 Macro — what's yours? Visits to two great camera shops: Unique Photo in Philadelphia and B&H in New York In a stunning development, Gabe got a half-frame camera, a Canon Sure Shot Multi Tele — how does half a cookie taste? copy stands are insanely expensive, so after much searching Jeff found a Durst F30 on Craigslist — it's the enlarger he learned on, and now the world’s cheapest copy stand We regret to inform you that Polaroid is at it again, with wildly overpriced Saint Laurent cameras and film — damn you!! Clare Marie Bailey gave Jeff a print of her exquisite photo “Memories of Summer” - print and hang your stuff, swap with other photographers, physical media is nice! Looking for an inexpensive way to shoot Nikon glass? Don’t sleep on the Nikonos! | |||
| Episode 31 • Sissi Lu Who | 22 Apr 2022 | 01:06:05 | |
Episode 31 • Sissi Lu Who The centerpiece of this episode is an extended interview with film photographer Sissi Lu, known to denizens of New York City as the Lady with the Hassy. She’s a street shooter and a portraitist and a TikTokker and a YouTuber, and her passion for photography is infectious. It’s one of our best conversations yet, so TOON IN! But first… A manageable mailbag! Marie Nikondo is RUTHLESS! Check out our Instagram for some cameras Gabe is offloading, and feel free to DM him and float a trade! and then, our conversation with Sissi Lu, featuring strategies for street photography the allure of the Hasselblad (and how it’s different than shooting a 35mm SLR like her Nikon F3) building a community of like-minded shooters forging a connection with your subjects the challenge of leaving the house with only two or three cameras designing the ideal camera bag using the self-timer (yes, she uses it) favorite film stocks (spoiler: she loves Lomo 800) and her second favorite New York film lab (picturehouse + thesmalldarkroom in Chelsea) Sissi Lu’s website, Instagram, TikTok, and her UNDER DVLP channel on YouTube | |||
| Episode 30 • Sidewalk Crouches at Her Feet (feat. Jessica Devic) | 07 Apr 2022 | 01:03:05 | |
an extravagant mailbag, featuring talk of Canons and bulk-loading 3D-printable leader-trimmers from Thingiverse: One for normal film: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4557581/files ABLON style, for Leica bottom-loaders: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1951048 Gabe went to the Morrison Hotel Gallery show and met legendary rock photographers Bob Gruen and Henry Diltz Jeff made a pilgrimage to the KEH brick-and-mortar store in Atlanta and came away with a Konica Auto S3 rangefinder and a 28mm Nikonos superwide lens which can only be used underwater he also got a lovely Canonflex R2000 on eBay, report to follow… however! the Canon Dial Rapid he bought from a guy in Portugal did not work, and the seller initially refused to pay for the return shipping. Remember, gang: eBay policy is, if a seller fails to provide means of returning the item, eBay can issue a refund without you returning the item first. finally, our interview with brilliant Toronto-based photographer Jessica Devic | |||
| Episode 29 • It’s Canon Now | 20 Mar 2022 | 01:17:12 | |
Our first XXL episode features a blockbuster mailbag, a recap of our latest photographic adventures, and a sweeping survey of the perennial Avis to Nikon’s Hertz, the esteemed marque known as Canon. A voluminous mailbag Gabe’s five-camera all-film shooting day strategies for shooting expired film Gabe found four bulk loaders in his garage! As for cassettes, ask for used ones at your local one-hour lab, 'cause all the other options are BAD And now… our Canon show! SLRs: T90 (and the infamous E E E error) Gabe's EOS SLR experiences EOS A2e a.k.a. EOS 5 (eye-controlled focus, lethal command dial) FD lenses, including the sublime 85mm f1.2L the fascinating Canonflex Rangefinders: Canon P and other early rangefinders Peter Kitchingman’s book Compacts, etc: Canon G-III QL17 - a nice compact RF, but tinny! Sure Shot Multi Tele - autofocus point-and-shoot that’s a stealth half-frame camera Sure Shot Classic 120 - point-and-shoot with classic RF styling Canon 110 ED 20 - a rangefinder camera with aperture priority! Canon Color Demi - pocket-sized half-frame in red, white & blue Canon Dial Rapid - on the way! Canon DSLRs | |||
| Episode 73 • I Have Your Review in Front of Me | 10 Jun 2024 | 01:17:22 | |
“I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review before me. In a moment it will be behind me.” — Max Reger, German composer (1873–1916), responding to a savage review Jeff’s in Lisbon at the start of a month-long European trip; Gabe’s in LA developing his own film for the first time in years. But what’s obsessing them the most? Their first rotten review! Tune in for all the merriment and NO PRAISE! Jeff’s choice of cameras and film for a month-long European trip: the Hasselblad XPan with both the 45mm and 90mm lenses the mighty Olympus XA4 macro 24 rolls of Kodak Portra 400 and Portra 160 Gabe’s eBay misadventure in pursuit of the Pentax 50mm 1.7: the “as-is” Pentax ME Super and S1 turned out to be nonfunctional, the lens was dented… …but he did get a Watson bulk loader! He lent his Canon EOS 3 to Martin Starr… so he had to buy a replacement: the EOS Elan 7NE. Which was perfect — even better than our beloved Rebel 2000! More eBaying: Gabe also got the Nikon 85mm f1.4D and he got his beloved Leica M3 repaired by our trusty dusty camera repair guy! whom he interviewed! and who may finally be unmasked in an upcoming episode! Jeff was on the cusp of buying an Olympus OM-3 when his cherished 12” Retina MacBook dropped dead… hence no OM-3 Gabe went shooting with the Elan and his Rolleiflex and processed the film himself — it’s a new era! In Lisbon, Jeff visited Vintage Dream Cameras and took a hard, hard look at a Snoopy 110 camera and a rare Leica IIIc with sharkskin leatherette We got a terrible review! Gabe compared Rolleiflex TLRs with Dave Tada, but it turns out there are lots of differences between the 2.8E and the 2.8E2! Also, Dave’s has an RZ67 finder! Our friend Oliver’s exotic Chinese Pearl River SLR Jeff experienced sudden XPan battery death We empty out our Prodigious Mailbag™ Some notes on our composer Fred Coury: his former band Cinderella’s Night Songs was released on this day in 1986; also, Fred just won his 6th Emmy! | |||
| Episode 28 • I’ll Be Quirky | 02 Mar 2022 | 01:01:14 | |
The barbarian hordes return fire with a fusillade of emails, and Jeff and Gabe recount their recent travel photography adventures. The prodigious 🎶 mailbag! Including: do you hand-check your film at airport security? lens hoods — do you use 'em? folding camera recommendations listeners' favorite instagram feeds the teeming masses demand pinhole coverage! a new source for The Thingy (a.k.a. the 675 hearing aid battery to PX625 adapter) — Polar Bear Camera. They also sell on Etsy! Gabe’s trip to Albuquerque, including a visit with the Bill Nye of analog photography, Cameradactyl’s Ethan Moses the state of vintage camera shopping in Albuquerque Jeff’s trip to Philadelphia, where it was so cold the SX-70 battery shut down — plus his favorite travel camera, the mighty Olympus XA4 Gabe’s photo shoot with the Contarex Bullseye Jeff’s continuing adventures with the Voigtländer Perkeo Bergger Pancro 400 does not get along with CineStill Df96 monobath! what criteria do you use in selecting which camera(s) to bring to a photowalk? in closing: 28 episodes in, what have we learned? | |||
| Episode 27 • Zeynep Bastik We Love You | 13 Feb 2022 | 00:58:35 | |
Mailbag — which is way too male! Thoughts on rising film prices HUGE news: the Leica wristwatches are out Gabe stumbles upon a concert by Turkish pop singer Zeynep Bastik at the end of his block and is pressed into service as event photographer — it’s the dream! Gabe goes spelunking for camera gear in the Laurel Canyon lair of legendary rock photographer Jimmy Steinfeldt… ...and emerges with a Minolta XG1 Jeff's newest acquisition: a Voigtländer Perkeo I — so cheap, so good Why don't we talk about folders? Gabe dusted off his Contarex Bullseye — gorgeous, with amazing lenses, yet expensive and time-consuming to fix Photographers’ Instagrams we like: Mike Gray, Mike Slack, Andre Josselin, Photographers Photographed | |||
| Episode 26 • Sexy MF | 25 Jan 2022 | 01:02:26 | |
What the heck is a Pentax MF? A Perkeo? An AE-1? Okay, the last one’s no mystery, but HOP ON your podspeeder for a freewheeling episode featuring plenty of clapbacks from listeners, a bona fide in-person visit from a Sunny 16er, and the disposition of several long-nourished camera dreams. A bumper crop of listener mail Dream Team sweatshirts are now available A recap of our visit with John-Michael Mendizza, including a trip to Cam Photo in Burbank… …where Jeff bought a long-coveted Canon AE-1 Our pilgrimage to Monte's Camera in Whittier, a veritable camera museum, where we learned about the mighty Voigtländer Perkeo The Electro Spotmatic is beyond repair, so bring on the strange and wonderful half-frame Pentax MF XPan fever has passed Panatomic-X auction — 20 rolls for $405! We're 20 years into the film-camera renaissance — is the supply of everything tightening? | |||
| Episode 25 • Where Have All the Cameras Gone? | 10 Jan 2022 | 00:56:54 | |
The mailbag! It's a New Year — once again, check your batteries and exercise your cameras! As of October 2021, Paul BG is no longer making The Thingy, so how do we replace the discontinued mercury 625 battery? The 675 hearing-aid battery plus either a #9 rubber O-ring or a #10 split lock washer Time for more controversy: do you use the self-timer? Jeff's Electro Spotmatic meter has failed, and when a camera isn’t working, he cannot have it in the house Our thrift-store odyssey: Where are all the film cameras? They’ve been camer-raptured! Where to sell stuff, other than eBay? OfferUp, Mercari, Facebook Marketplace, ShopGoodwill, Etsy... Jeff’s hunt for an XPan / Fujifilm TX Are digicams the new film? (see this Casual Photophile article) Books: Pentti Sammallahti’s Here, Far Away Finally: Gabe’s annual report from the IDOC corporate retreat | |||