About this episode
Gabe spills the tea — about the cameras he’s hunting for as he rapidly rebuilds his collection — while Jeff spills the coffee. That’s it. He spills it. Then recounts a whirlwind European trip featuring a phantasmagoria of phenomenal photographica. New York, London, Paris, dry-dock — everybody talk about pop IDOC! Jeff bought a camera bag! okay, he found a used Ona Union Street at B&H , but whaaaaat???? … then he went to London … got an odd little book at The Photographer's Gallery on Analog Photography visited Camera City , said hi to Pany , did not buy a Bronica RF645 visited Aperture Photographic , gaped at the amazing inventory, talked with Simon about photography with a Pentax Stereo Adapter , did not buy an absurd Contax Preview visited Mr Cad , kibitzed with the legendary Alex Falk , did not buy a rare and tantalizing Wrayflex , once again got the book instead … then on to Paris … visited Photo-Vincent , met the man himself, drooled over a black Alpa 6c and the 30mm lens for the XPan there was zero hand-check madness on this trip! we credit the Sissi Lu DO NOT X-RAY bag the sainted John-Michael Mendizza sent Gabe a Rolleiflex 2.8c and Jeff a Zeiss Taxona how’s Gabe getting on with his half-a-cookie Olympus Pen FT ? he’s on frame 56… the viewfinder’s a bit dim, so Jeff unfortunately altered him to the existence of the Pen FV Gabe’s up to twenty cameras of his planned thirty-camera collection, and here are the items on his hit list: Mamiya RZ67 Kiev 60 with Volna-3 lens Mamiya C330 black Leicaflex SL Pentax MX (he’s already got the 40mm pancake !) a brassed black Nikon F and the 35mm Sigma art lens for the Canon EOS 3 Gabe got a Yashicamat LM and a Minolta SRT-101 from Maria Elena Rodriguez opened the time capsule camera bag, went back to the Palisades house with Brandon , and unearthed more cameras Jeff has a final book recommendation: Tight Heads by Candy Clark we finally voyage to the very bottom of our Prodigious Mailbag™ and end with a challenge: write lyrics for our theme song! you could win fabulous prizes!