Episode 74 • Ubriaco A Roma

Two glasses of white wine reduces Jeff to drunkenly raving about travel cameras, airport hand-check injustices and (predictably) his usual cast of bêtes noires. Meanwhile, stone-cold-sober Gabe offers sharp, reasoned takes on the new Pentax 17 and the cameras of 1955. Tune in to Episode № 74 (not 75) for all the mayhem!Jeff recorded this episode from Rome after imbibing two glasses of cheap white wine, which is why he keeps calling it Episode 75Why the two cameras Jeff picked for his extended European trip — Olympus XA4 and Hasselblad XPan — have been idealLisbon Airport is the worst — they abjectly refused to hand-check Jeff’s film!Jeff had 18 rolls developed at Ars Imago in Rome, and here’s what he learned: Kodak Portra 160 needs tons of lightGabe unexpectedly presents: Cameras in Focus 1955!Miranda TCanon IIs2A $200,000 Leica accessory the Leica UW underwater housingOlympus WideGabe visited our lovely friends at LA Film Camera and you should tooThe boys drop some Strong Opinions™ about the new Pentax 17 half-frame film cameraGabe considered trading his Rolleiflex 2.8F for a Plaubel Makina and finally opted not to……but because he’s Gabe, he stumbled across a garage sale in Pacific Palisades and came away with all this for only $200:Olympus 35RCTopcon RE Super with three lensesLeica V-Lux 3Gabe revisits his chronic bouts of which-camera-to-bring anxietyWe drop a small I Dream of Pizzas travel tip: the best pizza Jeff’s girlfriend has ever had was at Ai Marmi in RomeA dip into our paltry yet Prodigious Mailbag™ Gabe reacts to the NY Times article about film shooters trashing their negativesAnd Jeff offers one more shout for the RitchieCam,  an iPhone app that can emulate the XPan