Episode 55 • Vienna Calling

Hello, oh-oh, Vienna calling! Jeff’s in the City of Dreams for Episode № 55 of I Dream of Cameras, featuring talk of travel, model shoots and being trailed by paparazzi. Do they swoon for the XPan? Find out in this globe-spanning dispatch!Jeff’s in Vienna, Austria for this one!Cameras of 1968:Petri Color 35Fed MikronKonica Autoreflex TPraktica Super TLGabe’s been going to a lot of camera meetups ‘cause Jeff has abandoned himJeff talks about the nature of his globetrotting adventure: Bratislava, Brno, Vienna, Prague, Karlovy Vary…Photographing picturesque cities, being trailed by paparazziThe cameras he brought: the Hasselblad XPan and the Olympus XA4 MacroThe XPan opens doors! photographers notice it — it’s not a dilettante’s camera — and this has led to some fascinating conversationsGabe’s had a similar experience with Rollei TLRsThe XPan is a surprisingly great travel camera — between behind-the-scenes stuff and exotic Central European cities, Jeff’s burning through two or three rolls of Kodak Portra 400 a dayKodak Ultramax 400 was cheaper but a bit disappointingalso in the queue: Portra 160 and FPP Color 125 (a.k.a. Svema)Jeff’s getting an extraordinary insight into the collaboration between model and photographer on a fashion shootyesterday’s photo shoot was with Leica Ambassador Pat Domingo, who used a Leica SL2 Reporter and a custom black chrome Hermes edition Leica M10-D with red leather and a 35mm Summicron that belonged to his fatherGabe had some struggles to get back in sync with his black-paint Leica M4Jeff’s pretty good at judging exposure — are you?Gabe’s also been out shooting with the Mamiya RZ67, the Hasselblad 501cm and the Rolleiflex 2.8E2And he’s fascinated by the work of Saul LeiterAnd he’s still enjoying the black Canonflex RM and Pentacon Six TLJeff’s favorite black-and-white film is Double-X 250, a GREAT stock which for some reason isn’t commercially available (except through Cinestill) — buy a 100-foot roll from Ultrafine Online and start bulk-loading!Jeff’s East Coast lab of choice: picturehouse + smalldarkroom in Chelsea, NYCand finally, a dip into Das Prodigious Mailbag!