Episode 75 • We Finally Accept Some Praise

What this episode covers

One of the Best Photography Podcasts To Listen To In 2024 (per Amateur Photographer magazine) returns to bask in some praise for a change! In this blockbuster XL episode, we run down our travels in Europe and Canada, recap recent celebrity photo shoots, exult over exotic gear acquisitions, and dive to the bottom of our Prodigious and Informative Mailbag™! Tune in to see what the fuss is about! * THE BIGGEST NEWS: our smash hit podcast earned global acclaim, as Amateur Photographer named us one of the best photography podcasts of 2024! Thanks, Jess Miller! * you’d be wise to consult Lina Bessonova’s invaluable hand check guide before traveling * Jeff once again experienced sudden XPan battery death after less than a month (= 30 rolls), so mock his spreadsheet at your peril * a Czech photographer picked on Jeff for daring to do portraits with a pano camera - also, he failed to make the cut for Brooklyn Film Camera’s photo show - the shame! * finding film in far-flung locations is HARD, so stock up * Jeff recounts an extremely bad experience with a Rome photo lab * not to be out-traveled, Gabe went to Canada with his Leica M10 and Noctilux - what’s more, he: * …visited Leitz Road in Midland, Ontario so his lens could see its birthplace * …hung out with Jessica Devic at Youthful Vengeance Coffee in Toronto - she’s a tremendous photographer, check her out * …toured Memento Film Lab in Toronto * …shot Claire Hinkley with the peerless Olympus 35 RC and monstrous Mamiya C330 * …and had a Fred Coury rock ’n’ roll idyll at the Rainbow and Whisky a Go Go with Taime Downe of Faster Pussycat * Jeff harpooned a long-sought white whale you’ve never heard of: the Petri Color 35 Custom * Gabe bonded with a TSA agent at Toronto Airport who turned out to be a film shooter * behold the B&H Lego set! * check out the Half Frame List of half-cookie cameras in current production * we’ll be at the Bruce Gilden and Vivian Maier shows at Fotografiska in August * and finally, our Prodigious and Informative Mailbag™, featuring plenty of fierce clapback about the Pentax 17