Episode 95 • Swiss Miss

What this episode covers

Ach, der Schmerz! Aïe, la douleur! Jeff’s insanely rare, perpetually coveted, and newly repaired half-frame Alpa 10s has been lost by UPS. As you listen to the latest episode of our Smash Hit Podcast™, globally acclaimed yet eschewing of praise, spare a thought or a prayer for the grieving cohost! yes, the Alpa 10s half-cookie is MIA at UPS - should we be putting AirTags in our important packages? Gabe is obsessed with which film cameras were used by legendary photographers to take legendary shots - are you? Gabe went to the LA Camera Expo and came home with a slew of darkroom equipment Jeff got great results from Atlanta Film Co. with Kodak Vision 3, but is it worth the extra cost, time and effort? the Osiris F1 is a fun ’n’ freaky (’n’ patent-infringing?) film-processing robot we urge you to check out the Cameradactyl Master System from mad scientist Ethan Moses Gabe is back in the hunt for camera bags - his new obsession is the sexy, stylish and super-expensive Bleu de Chauffe meanwhile, Jeff’s Strand Bookstore messenger bag is dirt cheap! we both flipped for Sissi Lu’s new googly-eyed hang-tag lens cloth Jeff snapped up Langdon Clay Cars: New York City, 1974-1976 book shot with a Leica CL and Kodachrome 25 - yet everyone on Instagram thinks the pics are AI slop! Gabe found Jeff Bridges’ elusive and highly prized Pictures Vol. 1 at Goodwill for six bucks! who sent Gabe a 110 camera? do tell! happy birthday to our friend Vance DeGeneres - check out his incredible New Orleans New Wave band The Cold! Los Angelenos! look into imstilldeveloping.com and the LA Camera Expo - Gabe will be there! and finally, we stick a pinky toe into the Prodigious Mailbag™