Episodes
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#145 Screaming Raccoon Podcast
So, after a summer break, it’s time again to brush up on your 2nd Grade classical history and moderately-sized furry mammal knowledge as it will be required to get the most out of this episode. Off topic we discuss the Fujinon 55mm f/2.2 and a potential clone, the new Voigtlander (is it a) Heliar...
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Classic Lenses Podcast Presents: Cocaine & Waffles, The End of the Line (Final Episode)
The Final Chapter of the Cocaine & Waffles Podcast Experiment Starring: Mike Eckman Johnny Sisson Theo Panagopoulos Anthony Rue Mark Faulkner Rick Oleson Daniel Hausman Vadislav Kern Rob Jamieson Check out the The Ohio Camera Collector's Society Annual Camera Auction
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#144 Vivitastic!
A slew of Vivitar purchases by Simon is the inspiration for a Vivitar special show where we give something of a potted history of the once great American lens brand. Whilst Vivitar has always been at the value end of the lens market, many of their lenses punched well beyond their weight. We…
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Classic Lenses Podcast Presents: Cocaine & Waffles, Episode 1
The Cocaine & Waffles Podcast Experiment Starring: Mike Eckman Johnny Sisson Cheyenne Morrison Perry Ge Mike Novak Anthony Rue Eric Enrico Jason Theo Panagopoulos
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#143 Isabel Curdes And Her Desert Island Lenses
In July, 2019 (Episode #77), we thoroughly enjoyed having the rare talent that is Isabel Curdes on the show, so we are delighted to able to maroon her on our desert island with 4 special lenses and two cameras (one is a big digital camera with a stupid shutter speed dial (if you're Simon and have...
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#142 Global GAS
There's something in the air, it's almost tangible... that's right it's pent up GAS, and we've just released it! Perry finally (and properly) breaks his No Nut November pledge from last October, Simon meets one of his hero lenses, and Johnny has extreme Leica satisfaction. Plenty of lens talk on...
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#141 Classic Lenses Land Of Confusion
It appears that taking a month off has not helped with the intelligence and lens knowledge of the three hosts. Perry struggles with cleaning marks, Simon struggles with the Minolta Rokkor VFC 24mm f/2.8 and Johnny struggles with the "focus bubble" of the Russar MR-2. If you have any knowledge of...
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#140 City By The Sea With Anil Mistry
Anil’s back and he’s brought his Unusual Eye with him. It’s just as well that we had Anil booked as Johnny had a Red Dot course to attend and could not be with us. As well as chatting about Anil’s excellent new photo book, which you can win a copy of it by entering our exciting new completion……
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#139 The Classic Digital Camera Podcast
We're back and winter lockdown boredom is playing havoc with our minds. What else could explain our desire to talk about early digital point and shoots, DSLRs, and a particular Canon EF lens that causes Johnny to have an almost Indiana-level meltdown? We also catch up on the new Sony 7C, the now...
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#138 Vlad Kern, Part 2, Approved Version
Vlad Kern returns this week for another deep dive into the photographic world of the Former Soviet Union. We cover an extensive list of topics, including rare Soviet camera, export models, and espionage cameras. Comrade Vlad has many great stories to share again this time, including a few that...
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#137 Super-tele Wallaroo
Following a lengthy discussion on stray Australian marsupials, we dive into a host of more pressing questions this week. Will Perry succumb to Rodenstock GAS? What is Johnny's perfect TLR accessory? Is Simon hoarding Tessars? Plus chat about vintage cameras in Netflix shows, whether gear should…
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#136 Emails, Part Trois
Just when you thought that we could not keep it up for two weeks on the trot, another show turns up like a bad penny. The week sees us reach the finale of our listener emails trilogy and includes a special section where we hear from supporters of the much maligned Mike "it's all my fault"...
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#135 il Buono il Brutto il Gutterman
A short catch up this week along with a superficial comparison between the Pentax 50mm f/1.2 and the Konica 57mm f/1.2. The main event being part two of our catch up of listener emails and an official complaint. We become uplifted by La Résistance, delve into the Borg psyche of the Classic Lenses...
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#134 I Mentioned Indiana, But I Think I Got Away With It...
Well we’ve had a three week break and it’s done us the world of good. We’re more relaxed and less opinionated than ever. A mountain of quality emails helps us to gently ease ourselves back into the swing of things with topics including Speed Panchros, Summarits, fake sharpness, a zoom lens…
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#133 Yo Gutterman, Where's My Pizza?
The much anticipated Frozen Pizza Episode is now here. SPOILER ALERT! Chicago Deep Dish Pizza is garbage (according to Simon). Trans Am Mullet Man Sex In A Fiero Pro Pizza Guy Mike Gutterman brings his expertise to present a balanced pizza episode and weighs in on the debate. Pentax and Leica R...
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#132 Abstinence and Rodinal With A Twist Of Lemon
Simon strikes gold with a great haul of interesting lenses, Perry gives up buying cameras and lenses for the rest of 2020, (there are caveats…) and Johnny has been drinking the Rodinal again. Johnny’s questionable habits may explain why he has no idea who is sending him film or a 6x12 camera in…
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#131 BESSADACTYL
Just when Simon thought that Johnny and Perry would be done talking about rangefinders after last week’s great show with Dan Tamarkin, he was proven to be wrong. Simon was also wrong about the Mongoose by Ethan “Cameradactyl” Moses, which already met its funding target after just one day. Talking...
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#130 Dan Tamarkin and the Leica Hysterical Society
Johnny and Perry's wildest dreams comes true! We are joined by none other than Dan Tamarkin of Tamarkin Camera in Chicago, America's Premiere Leica Specialist. We take a deep-dive into rangefinder photography and all things Leica. Dan is an amazing conversationalist and storyteller, and even…
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#129 Cometh The Hour, Cometh The Eckman
Mike Eckman makes an overdue reappearance and we catch up on some of the things he’s been up to recently with his classic camera review website, www.mikeeckman.com. It turns out that Mike has been writing articles about cameras with bad names, and if taking about cameras such as the Trumpfreflex…
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#128 Simon's Table Of Gear
Simon did not get the chance to do an update on his latest gear related activity last week, so he more than makes up for it this week. Pleanty of Mamiya C330, Yashica YF & Yashinon 5cm f/1.8, Pentacon Six & 120mm f/2.8 Biometar, Large Format projection lenses, an EXA to MD adapter that was made…
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#127 Retina Flare Goatsecx
Version 1: After two weeks of having guests on the show, Perry is bursting at the seams to tell us what he’s acquired. Although we finally get a show devoid of mathematics (that’s why it’s called maths and not math), however we can’t leave TLRs completely alone as we discuss the intricacies of...
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#126 Cheddar Man, Lens Bugs, and Camera Repair
UK camera and lens repair guy, Lyndon Booth of Londinium Cameras dropped in for a chat and to answer listener emails. We had a great time with Lyndon on his first appearance back in February 2019 and his latest visit does not disappoint either. As you may expect, there’s talk of early Britons,...
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#125 The Kaleidoscopic World of Mike Epstein
Regular listeners will recognis(z)e the name Mike Epstein as he's a friend of Perry's and also starred in a video we have on our YouTube channel. Mike and Perry give each other a lot of GAS and this partially explains Mike's vast camera and lens collection. We also hear about Mike's home made...
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#124 Xenotar or Planar? Not a Tessar, obvs
On last week’s show, Perry got big Rolleiflex GAS, so big that he was forced to buy one. SPOILER ALERT! However, Perry’s path to Xenotar enlightenment was not as flat and true as it should have been, and his Rolleiflex dream was crushed. Fear not, for Simon now has Rolleiflex GAS and Perry’s not...
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#123 So Many Things Today Are Making Sense...
Having tried and failed at math(s) last week, this week you can listen us decipher cryptic numbers and pictograms from the mid-20th Century. If that sounds odd, then things get worse, but at least there are some sane listener emails and along with some Dame Judy Dench lust. ________ LISTEN TO THE...
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#122 Subjective Facts
We’ve been doing it wrong all the time: Perry explains why we should be relying on math(s) to help use choose which lenses to take with us on a photography trip. Put your faith in percentage differences he says. Hmm. We plough/plow through listener email(s) and explain why we missed a show last...
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#121 Blooming Nick Lyle
Nick Lyle, our guest from Show #61 (and the Homemade Camera Podcast), makes a triumphant return this week. Nick helps us out with a range of topics including how lens blooming led to modern lens coatings and selecting lenses to suit certain film types. Whilst most of us adapt lenses to a camera,...
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#120 Simon’s Rokkor Glow
Simon's newly acquired Minolta X-500 appears to melting his stone cold heart when it comes to all things Rokkor, but don't get too excited, it's more of a light thaw than a flash flood of Himalayan melt water. Perry bashes Zeiss optics in the topsy turvy new world, but fortunately Johnny's…
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#119 Perry's Knob
After throwing knobs in #89, Perry returns to the subject this week with an in depth discussion of his favorite appendage as well as his lockdown GAS buying spree. Johnny talks about some bargain yet suspiciously familiar camera equipment that is showing up for sale in Chicago as well as…
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#118 Central Camera Company Update
A short episode about current events that strike close to home. Johnny provides local insights the destruction of Central Camera Company in Chicago as a result of the unrest sweeping the US following the murder of George Floyd. Warning: politics are discussed. ________ LISTEN TO THE PODCAST…
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#117 Lenses from the Cupboard
Back from the defeat by Mike Novak on last week’s Pub Quiz show, we’re handling it well, or at least two of us are. This week Simon opens his lens cupboard door and invites Johnny and Perry to direct his hands into its dark depths. What will he pull out? ________ LISTEN TO THE PODCAST Pobean |...
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#116 Are Asian Pears Apples?
So you think you know about lenses? Come and have a go at the Classic Lenses Podcast Pub Quiz! Quizmaster Perry Ge puts hosts Johnny & Simon against each other and the might of uber photo gnome, Mike Novak. Who will take the gold? More importantly, who's going home with a sad silver medal face?...
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#115 Cookes and Bokinas and Takoomas, Oh Myyy!
Johnny has been allowed back into our own Facebook group and his ban seems to have done him and everybody else a world of good. The sun has been shining, and even Simon has taken a photo (plural, in fact!) Perry is deep in the Cooke Panchro zone. Added to this unnaturally good mood, Someone's...
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#114 Bokakkeh
Something of a quickie this week, but we managed to unload plenty of lens talk as well as discuss Chris Holland’s lens buying guide and introduce a luscious new word. ________ LISTEN TO THE PODCAST Pobean | iTunes | Stitcher ________ EPISODE 114 LINKS Kiev 88 Tair-33 300mm f4.5 Zeiss-Opton Biogon...
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#113 Karl's Desert Island Lenses
Dr Karl Havens left us a year ago this week and we still miss him dearly. To mark his passing, we take Karl’s memory to our desert island and do our best to work out what cameras and lenses he might have taken with him. So please come and take a trip that Karl would have loved and hated in equal...
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#112 We Asked, You Told Us
Johnny could not be with us this week, he’s felling a little better but he has other pressing concerns, so Perry and Simon man up and take on the mammoth task of responding to your emails. In the last podcast, Simon asked listeners for feedback on what they wished to hear in future shows and boy...
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#111 Squaring The Conceptually Circular Hat Box
We're back after another two week lockdown lay-off and it seems that few things have changed. None of us has gone outside to shoot, Perry is digging LTM lenses, Simon's making lens caps and Johnny.... let's say that he's still under doctor's care and that's the best explanation for his flat field...
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#110 Coronavirus, Photography, Redactions and Me
Oh boy... The world has changed a little in the two weeks since our last recording, but thankfully Perry wants to talk about Exakta and Topcon lenses. The elephant that calls itself Covid-19 makes it's presence known and we talk through the different experiences that the we have encountered and…
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#109 Negative Pixl-latr Lab Pro
It’s finally here: we’ve made the long-awaited Digitization Special! In this episode we are joined by two titans of the digitization world, Hamish Gill of Pixl-latr (and other stuff) and Nate Johnson, the man behind the brilliant Negative Lab Pro plugin for Lightroom. We cover as many bases as...
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#108 Is That A Helicoid In Your Vest Pocket?
It's Pulaski Day in Chicago, and we're celebrating by talking about adapting lenses. We lose Simon part way through the episode, but Perry and Johnny continue on. The guys talk about a number of unique classic lenses ideal for adapting, and take a deep dive into the techniques for fitting them to...
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#107 Two Lenses and a Pimp
The dust has only just settled from the fallout from last week’s show, as we had a record number of comments made about it in our small but perfectly formed Facebook group. Calm has now been restored with some serial number serendipity and Perry’s new acquisitions, one of which uses similar…
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#106 Ride wit Mistry
Anil Mistry makes a very welcome return to CLP Towers this week and there’s not a Leica or RF lens in sight, much to the relief to those aspiring street photographers that don’t dig rangefinders. Anil presides over a Fuji vs. Sony fight in which three of the four people on the podcast think that...
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#105 Crononavirus Snowpacolypse Hotdog Stand
This week, Perry discusses life and photography in Hong Kong on Coronavirus lockdown, Simon attempts to survive the Great Stone-on-Trent Snowpocalypse of 2020, and Johnny risk life and limb in Chicago for hotdogs. The guys also discuss different flavours of Canon 35mm LTM lenses, photo-free photo...
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#104 Fringe Pinching And Funny Rainbows
Johnny’s back and he’s got a new toy, Perry has moved on from shooting riots to shooting the Zombie Apocalypse that is Coronavirus Hong Kong, and Simon is utterly confused as to whether familiarity with equipment is the road to photography enlightenment or whether it’s just great gear or both and...
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#103 Ethan's Briefcase Of Lenses
Ethan Moses, esteemed podcast tart of Cameradactyl, Homemade Camera Podcast, and guest on every other podcast ever fame, joins us to talk about lenses, lots and lots of lenses. Mamiya Press lenses, his favourite Nikon and rangefinder glass, and medium format Russian lenses. For listeners of a...
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#102 Giant Sex Bombs & Pebbledashing
Not content to bring one special lens to the party, Perry brings three absolute stunners with him, while Simon’s back shooting his Sony. We also catch up on Johnny in the darkroom (yes he did say he was done with that), and catch up on the emails we ran out of time to discuss last week. A show...
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#101 Blessed Are The Eyes That See
So, after our almost universally acclaimed and made for YouTube extravaganza better known as #100, we’re back on the radio/podcast. Normal service is resumed with Johnny & Perry going on about scale focusing issues that could easily be dealt with by adapting to digital or just shooting an SLR...
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#100 Jason Lane To Zemax!
Our second anniversary and our 100th show. To mark the occasion professional lens designer, Jason Lane has returned and this time you get to see the software that Karl, Johnny and Simon were raving about in Karl’s final show, Episode #64. So here’s something of a first for us, a podcast designed…
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#99 Lenses of the Year
So having done a Christmas show, the CLP has now completely sold out and done an awards show. So sit back and listen to a list of the usual winning names such as the Nikon D90 etc... ________ LISTEN TO THE PODCAST Podbean | iTunes | Stitcher ________ EPISODE 99: LENSES OF THE YEAR PERRY MVP (Lens...
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#98 Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie! CLP Wishlist for Santa
The CLP breaks with tradition and actually does a Christmas show this year! So what lenses and cameras do Perry, Johnny and Simon want for Christmas? To make it easier/harder the wish list of gear that they want Santa to acquire for them is broken down into price based categories. So that will be…
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