I Dream of Cameras

• Episode 95 • Swiss Miss

  Ach, der Schmerz! Aïe, la douleur! Jeff’s insanely rare, perpetually coveted, and newly repaired half-frame Alpa 10s has been lost by UPS. As you listen to the latest episode of our Smash Hit Podcast™, globally acclaimed yet eschewing of praise, spare a thought or a prayer for the grieving cohost!yes, the Alpa 10s half-cookie is MIA at UPS - should we be putting AirTags in our important packages?Gabe is obsessed with which film cameras were used by legendary photographers to take legendary shots - are you?Gabe went to the LA Camera Expo and came home with a slew of darkroom equipmentJeff got great results from Atlanta Film Co. with Kodak Vision 3, but is it worth the extra cost, time and effort?the Osiris F1 is a fun ’n’ freaky (’n’ patent-infringing?) film-processing robotwe urge you to check out the Cameradactyl Master System from mad scientist Ethan MosesGabe is back in the hunt for camera bags - his new obsession is the sexy, stylish and super-expensive Bleu de Chauffemeanwhile, Jeff’s Strand Bookstore messenger bag is dirt cheap!we both flipped for Sissi Lu’s new googly-eyed hang-tag lens clothJeff snapped up Langdon Clay Cars: New York City, 1974-1976 book shot with a Leica CL and Kodachrome 25 - yet everyone on Instagram thinks the pics are AI slop!Gabe found Jeff Bridges’ elusive and highly prized Pictures Vol. 1 at Goodwill for six bucks!who sent Gabe a 110 camera? do tell!happy birthday to our friend Vance DeGeneres - check out his incredible New Orleans New Wave band The Cold!Los Angelenos! look into imstilldeveloping.com and the LA Camera Expo - Gabe will be there!and finally, we stick a pinky toe into the Prodigious Mailbag™

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• Episode 94 • All Floral Wallpaper and Joy

  Jeff’s been engaged for over a month, and is suffused with bonhomie and goodwill, while the normally sanguine Gabe is ENRAGED! At eBay sellers who say “make an offer,” but don’t actually want one; at overpriced camera straps and thumb drives — he’s seething! Next, the boys note some stereotypically male behavior from “Chad” GPT, discuss the financial state of our beloved Kodak, examine the controversy over Nick Ut’s “Terror of War” photo, and take a swan dive into an exceptionally Prodigious Mailbag. Finally: will Debbie Gibson record a vocal version of our theme song for the upcoming (and final?) 100th episode, or is that Only In My Dreams? Shake Your Love and find out!Gabe traveled to Lake Muskoka north of Toronto and shot no filmJeff asked ChatGPT to compare the Closter Princess Junior with the Galileo Condor II, and it claimed they were bikes! We now dub the app “Chad GPT,” because he’s a man who'll never say “I Don't Know”!is Kodak in trouble? Calm down!we discuss the emergent controversy over the authorship of Nick Ut’s “Terror of War” photo, as recounted in the new documentary The Stringer - for example, even AP admits the negative was not shot with Ut's preferred Leica M2, but a cheap Pentax, and our trusty dusty camera repair guy confirms thisGabe rails at eBay sellers who say “make offer” but don't want an offeralso, when is the asking price too high? for straps, thumb drives, Alpa strap lugs...?Jeff openly derides absurd packfilm pricesGabe rhapsodizes about OC Camera in Laguna Hillswe both love Sissi Lu's recent photo shoot with her momour trusty dusty camera repair guy replaced the focusing screen in Gabe’s Rolleiflex 2.8E, and the results are gloriousthe Prodigious Mailbag™ includes an unexpected eyewitness update on Jeff's Alpa 10s half-cookieGabe will be at the LA Camera Expo this Sunday, August 17thour designer (and award-winning photographer) Keith Greenstein is back on Instagramcheck out The Darkroom Rumour, The Darkroom’s amazing new streaming site for photo documentariesand let's get Debbie Gibson to record a vocal version of our theme song with composer Fred Coury for the 100th episode!

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• Episode 93 • Otherwise Engaged

  Vapid glad-handing? Try happy wed-banding, because Jeff and P are engaged! This blockbuster XL episode features a brief recap of the proposal and a lengthy recap of the engagement-moon that followed, with a smattering of camera content along the way. Tune in for all the romance!Gabe went to New York!at B&H, the mighty Shlomo hooked him up with a Rolleiflex 2.8E - so much for that 30-camera limit!hung out with Sissi Lu and Chris Chushot nothing but film with the Leica M6went to an event at Kodak House, saw some great stuff shot with with a Kodak Baby Brownieand left J + P a cool old Christie’s auction catalog from the Chelsea flea marketJeff lingered in Europe!bought and then returned a Zeiss Tenax IIpicked up film, books and apparel at the Zurich Ars Imagosnagged a Freitag Lassie bike-messenger bag at their flagship store as an all-weather beach-friendly camera toteback home, his half-cookie Alpa 10s is undergoing major surgerywhile the recent Leica auction featured a similar Alpa 10s half frameand also the last original Alpa ever built! the 11es JubileeKodak Vision 3 may yield gorgeous results, but getting it processed is challenging - Atlanta Film Company to the rescueat Nice airport, the Sissi Lu Do Not X-Ray bag was a lifesaverwe share news of big Chattanooga photo walk we’re sadly missing!and finally: two gods have ascended to a higher plane, Ozzy Osbourne and Tom Lehrer

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• Episode 92 • A Sop to Mike Sopko

  Episode № 92 finds the boys in Sunset Strip rock clubs and sun-baked Czech vineyards, sampling exotic cinema film and strange European cameras, taking in celebrity gallery shows and nibbling koláče. What happened to those two humble kids from the oak groves of Riverdale and the pine forests of Atlanta — and who is Mike Sopko? Tune in to IDOC’s latest and find out — they’ve only got eight more to go!question: were we crisper and more cogent in earlier episodes? does this guy have a point?? buy a mug if you concur!Gabe (and resident rock god Fred Coury) took Canadian hockey reporter Scott Laughlin to the Rainbow Room, then Mini-Kiss (a Kiss tribute band consisting entirely of little people) at the RoxyGabe also went to a Cameras and Coffee…saw the amazing Paul McCartney show at Gagosian Galleryhunted for a replacement for his beloved Canon R5 and Sigma 85mm Art Lens… and Roberts Camera a.k.a. UsedPhotoPro came through! Meredith put together an incredible package for himGabe returned to the LA Camera Expo at the Hotel Burbank and snapped up a Leicaflex SL with a 60mm f2.8 three-cam lensbut it didn’t stop there! he also nabbed a Hasselblad 501CM from Ethan Ingram, and a point-and-shoot to be named later - he’s arrived at the promised 30-camera collectionhold on there’s more! with an assist from Brandon Steadman, he (might) also (have) snapped up a Leica R8, which would bring the collection to 31 (not including some broken ones) - okay, maybe we’re calling it thirtyishJeff’s been in a Prague for a month, has shot 22 rolls of film, and cannot live without his XPan exposure compensation dial - how ’bout you? do you use yours?when the paint chipped off his e.c. dial, Jeff did a quick fix with a white paint pen from a local art supply storealso, he found a new local lab to complement the mighty FotoŠkoda: FilmStore Prague, which has excellent prices for developing & scanningplus they roll their own Kodak Vision 3 cinema film, leaving the remjet on, and process it ECN-2 - Jeff shot their 250D and found the palette beautiful and the images stunningly sharp, and it’s half the local cost of Portra!(n.b.: it’s not the same as CineStill’s old 250D, which had the remjet removed)Jeff bought a rare Minox photo book from a seller in Germany and had it shipped straight to his Prague apartment, thereby saving tons of money and time - check out the preview on YouTube of Oktaeder: Spy-cam Sketches Minox 8x11 by Peter Bernardhe also bought a vintage Alpa employee badge on eBay and vows to wear the late Mike Sopko’s nametag with pride - Mike repaired cameras at the also-late Crick Camera in Kansas City for over forty years - here’s to you, Mike!seller goKevincameras is struggling mightily with tariff issuesof course we must rifle wildly through our Prodigious Mailbag™Gabe’s advice on how to how to find people to photograph? ask local artists!a final note: mere hours after recording this episode, Jeff’s XPan suffered its second bout of Sudden Fujifilm Battery Death™ in less than a month!

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• Episode 91 • Prague Rock

  Once again I Dream of Cameras spans the globe, with Jeff in Prague and Gabe in Los Angeles, and not even a nine-hour time difference can slow us down! In fact, one might say we are utterly devoid of camera viscosity, or “camerosity” for short. In this supersized episode…Jeff unknowingly chatted up Danny Clinch about his Leica Q2 at the Trombone Shorty Soho Session, and the acclaimed photographer was faintly dismissivefor the next two months Jeff’s in Prague, where the camera shops (FotoŠkoda, Jan Pazdera) are far too alluringhe’s been eyeing a lovely Zeiss Tenax II, a flawed Olympus 35SPn, and a beautifully brassed black Canonflex RMbefore departure, Jeff did the unthinkable: snagged a bargain-basement half-frame Alpa 10s on the ‘Bay - it’s half a Swiss cookie and the realization of a lifelong dream!talking Leicas with Dave Tada, Gabe realized he needs a 35mm lens for his Leica III - he already has the 50mm Serenar, so any suggestions?Gabe went to the Fujifilm event for their bizarre new half-a-cookie digital - what did he learn about the elusive x100vi?Gabe has gone half-cookie INSANE with his Olympus Pen FT, so now our friend Sissi Lu has enticed him to give the Pentax One Seven one more try - what will he grab next, the chunky plastic Pentax or the mighty meterless Olympus Pen FV?he’s got a portrait shoot coming up, and plans to use the Kiev 60, the Leica III and the Mamiya RZ67as for replenishing his collection, he’s up to 27 of a planned 30 cameras Jeff was shooting around Prague when Sudden Fujifilm Battery Death struck again! Fuji’s battery displays in both the XPan and GA645 are pure fictionGabe’s also been rebuilding his book collection with Duane Michals Portraits and volumes by Sarah Moon and Clifford Coffinlet us now praise John Wade’s Retro Cameras, which is what Ralph Bellamy’s book should have beenonce again we make it halfway down the depths of our Prodigious Mailbag™Gabe unleashes a raft of thank-yousand adds a final postscript: nature is healing and he’s back in the bag business, welcoming a new Nomatic Luma McKinnon

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