About this episode
Leicaflex, Contarex, Rolleiflex, Magicflex, Omegaflex! Olivia Dean and Debbie Gibson! Seth Rogen’s gone pano and the Swiss Army’s gone XXL! It’s IDOC’s jam-packiest episode yet, ’cause unless Debbie sings our theme song, it could be the Olympus Pen-ultimate! Tune in for all the mayhem! Birthday madness! Gabe got Jeff a Leicaflex SL at B&H Photo , whatta guy! The SL’s PX625 battery presents some challenges Chad GPT misled Jeff regarding the 50mm Summicron-R - turns out it takes a Series VI filter with a retaining ring the new camera prompted the customary orgy of book-ordering; however, only Jeff wants a Leicaflex book signed by author Theo Kisselbach please note: chromogenic Ilford XP2 Super scans much better than HP5 or Tri-X! Gabe visited with Sissi Lu , who has a new podcast and showed off her Kodak Charmera also, her googly-eyed lens cloth charm is back in stock at sissilu.com Gabe went on a sudden mad hunt for a Contarex Bullseye and a 50mm lens …and got a lens board for his Beseler 67C enlarger, thanks to Steve Pinter from pintercreative.com - honorable mention to Gabriel Butensky check out the “ 24 things from the Leica archive ” reels on Leica’s Instagram Gabe met up with our pal Chris Smirnoff , who deluged him with photo books: Yul Brynner , Comedians , Salgado , a Sears photo catalog… the two also chatted up Instagram shooters Connie and Stewart in search of brighter focusing screens for his Rolleiflex TLRs , Gabe got some from Magicflex Camera and they’re incredible Michael Herring ( colorblindfish on IG) sent Gabe a gorgeous camera strap from Couch Guitar Straps hey, the LA Camera Expo is bigger than ever! Gabe took a hard look at an Omegaflex and backed away Jeff attended the Olivia Dean Soho Session and this time did NOT interact with Danny Clinch P is on the cover of Numero Magazine , one of Gabe’s favorites Seth Rogen is a Widelux and XPan aficionado - let’s get him on the show! speaking of which: whither Debbie Gibson …? it’s holiday gift time, check our merch page ! P got Jeff a Swiss Champ XXL Swiss Army Knife for his birthday because she’s wonderful and finally, we dip a few toes into our Prodigious Mailbag™