About this episode
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! Miranda T Canon IIs2 A $200,000 Leica accessory the Leica UW underwater housing Olympus Wide 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: Olympus 35RC Topcon RE Super with three lenses Leica V-Lux 3 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