Episode 37 • This Is the Day of the XPanding Man

A VERY SPECIAL EPISODE recapping Jeff’s absurd acquisition of a Hasselblad XPan, and more importantly, his trip to England and Wales to meet all four hosts of the Sunny 16 Podcast!In our last episode, Chris Chu talked Jeff out of getting a Hasselblad XPan, so how did he end up impulsively buying one on his first day in London?A magical trip to Camera City, the very same place where Jeff found his sacred Alpa 11si ten years ago... and what should be on the shelf but an XPan?And now, the circuit of the Sunnies…Drinks with Ade at the Camera Museum in LondonA side trip to the Photographer’s Gallery and their incredible film wallDarkroom work with Rachel at her studio at Northern Lights in LiverpoolTouring Anglesey and Portmeirion, Wales with ClareBrowsing vintage cameras with Graeme at the Cameras London stall at Portobello RoadAn underdiscussed aspect of the XPan: the standard 45mm f/4 lens is incredible!In other news… where’s all the film? And why’s the film we have so expensive?Gabe has set up an on-deck circle of underused cameras……and has been snapping up photography booksThought experiment: if the boys had to cut their collections down to only ten cameras, which would they choose?Next episode, we tackle the prodigious mailbag!