About this episode
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: Nikon SP Ilford Sportsman Hasselblad 500C Kodak Retina Reflex Concava Tessina watch camera TLR Leica M2 (for real) which when new went for $276, or $2,884.37 in today’s dollars Arsenal Salyut Asahi came out with the original Pentax Olympus Wide E 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