Episode 74 • Ubriaco A Roma

What this episode covers

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 75 * Why the two cameras Jeff picked for his extended European trip — Olympus XA4 and Hasselblad XPan — have been ideal * Lisbon 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 light * Gabe unexpectedly presents: Cameras in Focus 1955! * Miranda T * Canon IIs2 * A $200,000 Leica accessory the Leica UW underwater housing * Olympus Wide * Gabe visited our lovely friends at LA Film Camera and you should too * The boys drop some Strong Opinions™ about the new Pentax 17 half-frame film camera * Gabe 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 35RC * Topcon RE Super with three lenses * Leica V-Lux 3 * Gabe revisits his chronic bouts of which-camera-to-bring anxiety * We drop a small I Dream of Pizzas travel tip: the best pizza Jeff’s girlfriend has ever had was at Ai Marmi in Rome * A dip into our paltry yet Prodigious Mailbag™ * Gabe reacts to the NY Times article about film shooters trashing their negatives * And Jeff offers one more shout for the RitchieCam, an iPhone app that can emulate the XPan