Episode 66 • To the Bathyscaphe!

from I Dream of Cameras · host Jeff Greenstein

It’s a voyage to the bottom of the Prodigious Mailbag™ on our Smash Hit Podcast™, but before that there’s talk of the year in photography 1957, the revived Southern California camera show, Jeff’s trip to the Caribbean with a sexy Swede and also his girlfriend, eBay execs sending pig fetuses to their critics, and so much more!Jeff made yet another major math error! 64 is 2 cubedSorry, but Parenting Hell is not a smash hit podcastGabe presents The Year in Focus 1957:Nikon SPIlford SportsmanHasselblad 500CKodak Retina ReflexConcava Tessina watch camera TLRLeica M2 (for real) which when new went for $276, or $2,884.37 in today’s dollarsArsenal SalyutAsahi came out with the original PentaxOlympus Wide EGabe went to the new Huntington Park camera show (very exciting) and nearly bought a Contax TJeff visited 5R Photo Lab in New York and met proprietor AlecA trip to St. Barth’s, French West Indies occasioned the return of the XPan, and a love affair was reignitedJeff shot with both Portra 400 and 160… and liked 160 better!Gabe visited Jeff and P in NYC, went to B&H Photo, bought nothing……but then ordered an Exa 1B and a Helios-44 lensMint unveiled their coming-soon Rollei 35AF — apparently anyone can license the name “Rollei” for a buck fifty — but who needs this thing?A bunch of eBay execs were creepy criminalsJeff got a cool Minox film slitter from camerhack.itCheck out RitchieCam, a camera app for iPhone with an XPan emulation modeA dive so deep into our Prodigious Mailbag™ that it requires a bathyscapheGabe wants to hear about online photography websites you love - blogs, magazines, whatever

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It’s a voyage to the bottom of the Prodigious Mailbag™ on our Smash Hit Podcast™, but before that there’s talk of the year in photography 1957, the revived Southern California camera show, Jeff’s trip to the Caribbean with a sexy Swede and also his girlfriend, eBay execs sending pig fetuses to their critics, and so much more! * Jeff made yet another major math error! 64 is 2 cubed * Sorry, but Parenting Hell is not a smash hit podcast * Gabe presents The Year in Focus 1957: * Nikon SP * Ilford Sportsman * Hasselblad 500C * Kodak Retina Reflex * Concava Tessina watch camera TLR * Leica M2 (for real) which when new went for $276, or $2,884.37 in today’s dollars * Arsenal Salyut * Asahi came out with the original Pentax * Olympus Wide E * Gabe went to the new Huntington Park camera show (very exciting) and nearly bought a Contax T * Jeff visited 5R Photo Lab in New York and met proprietor Alec * A trip to St. Barth’s, French West Indies occasioned the return of the XPan, and a love affair was reignited * Jeff shot with both Portra 400 and 160… and liked 160 better! * Gabe visited Jeff and P in NYC, went to B&H Photo, bought nothing… * …but then ordered an Exa 1B and a Helios-44 lens * Mint unveiled their coming-soon Rollei 35AF — apparently anyone can license the name “Rollei” for a buck fifty — but who needs this thing? * A bunch of eBay execs were creepy criminals * Jeff got a cool Minox film slitter from camerhack.it * Check out RitchieCam, a camera app for iPhone with an XPan emulation mode * A dive so deep into our Prodigious Mailbag™ that it requires a bathyscaphe * Gabe wants to hear about online photography websites you love - blogs, magazines, whatever

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