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 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