I Dream of Cameras

Jeff Greenstein and Gabe Sachs

The smash hit podcast about cameras and camera collecting from Jeff Greenstein and Gabe Sachs.

  1. APR 9

    Episode 101 • Today Is Her Birthday, They're Smoking Cigars

    It’s P’s birthday, but she’s working, leaving Jeff languishing at home with nothing but his vapid glad-hand for company. Perfect time to summon up Gabe on the ol’ Zoom-o-Matic and pump out an episode! In this one, we speak of acquisitions both big (huge honkin’ Pentax zoom) and small (stealthy Casio wristcam). Also discussed: being mocked for your puny glass by a bird photographer with a 600mm, many upcoming LA photo meetups, and a deep dive into our Prodigious Mailbag™! Gabe snapped up a big-ass Pentax 6x7 zoom lens and had his beloved Leica M6 CLA’d by our trusty-dusty camera repair guy shout-out to the Film Fridge app — it’s better than a spreadsheet! Jeff speaks of his millennial obsession with the Casio WQV-3 watch camera, how he used it to surreptitiously photograph Will & Grace guest stars, and his late frustration with a recently acquired top-of-the-line WQV-10 also, he’s just returned from photographing sandhill cranes and prairie chickens in Kearney, Nebraska with the XPan, which was apparently the wrong camera to bring, because other large-lensed photographers mocked him Wilber, Nebraska is the Czech Capital of the US! Dave Grohl laments option paralysis, something we camera collectors know all too well there are plenty of upcoming photo meetups in LA — check out LA Film Camera and Analog Con Jo Geier of Mint and Rare is torturing us all on Instagram ever heard of the Ricoh 500RF? we rifle through an exceptionally Prodigious Mailbag™ and speaking of watches and photography, check out the crowdfunded wristwatch light meter from Increment Labs LTD

    1h 7m
  2. 12/18/2025

    Episode 99 • Weird ’flex but ok

    Leicaflex, Contarex, Rolleiflex, Magicflex, Omegaflex! Olivia Dean and Debbie Gibson! Seth Rogen’s gone pano and the Swiss Army’s gone XXL! It’s IDOC’s jam-packiest episode yet, ’cause unless Debbie sings our theme song, it could be the Olympus Pen-ultimate! Tune in for all the mayhem! Birthday madness! Gabe got Jeff a Leicaflex SL at B&H Photo, whatta guy! The SL’s PX625 battery presents some challenges Chad GPT misled Jeff regarding the 50mm Summicron-R - turns out it takes a Series VI filter with a retaining ring the new camera prompted the customary orgy of book-ordering; however, only Jeff wants a Leicaflex book signed by author Theo Kisselbach please note: chromogenic Ilford XP2 Super scans much better than HP5 or Tri-X! Gabe visited with Sissi Lu, who has a new podcast and showed off her Kodak Charmera also, her googly-eyed lens cloth charm is back in stock at sissilu.com Gabe went on a sudden mad hunt for a Contarex Bullseye and a 50mm lens …and got a lens board for his Beseler 67C enlarger, thanks to Steve Pinter from pintercreative.com - honorable mention to Gabriel Butensky check out the “24 things from the Leica archive” reels on Leica’s Instagram Gabe met up with our pal Chris Smirnoff, who deluged him with photo books: Yul Brynner, Comedians, Salgado, a Sears photo catalog… the two also chatted up Instagram shooters Connie and Stewart in search of brighter focusing screens for his Rolleiflex TLRs, Gabe got some from Magicflex Camera and they’re incredible Michael Herring (colorblindfish on IG) sent Gabe a gorgeous camera strap from Couch Guitar Straps hey, the LA Camera Expo is bigger than ever! Gabe took a hard look at an Omegaflex and backed away Jeff attended the Olivia Dean Soho Session and this time did NOT interact with Danny Clinch P is on the cover of Numero Magazine, one of Gabe’s favorites Seth Rogen is a Widelux and XPan aficionado - let’s get him on the show! speaking of which: whither Debbie Gibson…? it’s holiday gift time, check our merch page! P got Jeff a Swiss Champ XXL Swiss Army Knife for his birthday because she’s wonderful and finally, we dip a few toes into our Prodigious Mailbag™

    1h 8m
  3. 11/16/2025

    Episode 98 • Five Years, That's All We’ve Got

    How did these two mumbling malcontents pump out pods for five years and ninety-eight nattering episodes? In this one, the boys barely discuss that at all! Instead Jeff recaps his trip to London, to the shop where he bought both his Alpa and XPan, and Gabe recounts his acquisition of a legendary lens owned by an even-more-legendary photographer. A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest — tune in! November 20 marks IDOC’s fifth anniversary, and the 21st marks Jeff’s birthday! Jeff briefly recounts his trip to London, including a stop at Camera City, the shop where he got both his first Alpa and his first XPan Gabe’s birthday bonanza included a Lab-Box and a Negative Supply scanning rig… …he found a Beseler 67SC enlarger on FB Marketplace… …and went to (basically) Spahn Ranch in the Hollywood Hills to secure a 80mm f4 Rodenstock Rodagon enlarger lens… which, it turns out, used to belong to Herb Ritts! our continuing adventures with the maddeningly inconsistent Chad GPT: it misled Jeff about the fate of the final penny, and lied to Gabe about a mysterious TLR which turned out to be a rare Rolleiflex 2.8F white face what do the boys think of the soon-come Widelux XX? sad news: Freestyle Photo is closing their brick-and-mortar location  should Jeff buy an O.G. Alpa-Reflex on the ‘bay to complete his collection? once again, we improbably empty the Prodigious Mailbag™ and now you must run to the L.A. Camera Expo in Burbank ‘cause it’s happening at this very moment!

    1h 14m
  4. 09/19/2025

    Episode 96 • Here’s What We've Been Up To

    Is it enough for these two “middle-aged men” to merely share “what they’ve been up to”? One peevish iTunes reviewer doesn’t think so! But for the rest of you, tune in to this XL episode to hear the felicitous end of Jeff’s half-frame Alpa saga, news of Gabe’s bag-quisitions and camera meetups, a screed about how the new tariffs are crippling our hobby, a impassioned defense of free speech, and so much more! rejoice, for Jeff’s half-a-cookie Alpa 10s finally arrived! not only that, after he emailed the CEO of UPS, he got a personal response and an apology! Gabe loves his supersnazz Bleu de Chauffe camera tote, yet couldn’t resist snapping up Jeff’s cheap Strand Bookstore messenger bag as well Gabe (along with Rafael Hernandez) went to the Susan Meiselas event at the Aero Theatre… …and crashed the LA Camera Exchange meetup from imstilldeveloping.com and Fridge Film the new hot camera is the Nikonos V — clearly the IDOC effect in action! Jeff has been kitting out his new Polaroid GOOSE… …but finds a 50mm lens a bit too tele-ish on the Alpa 10s, since a half-frame focal length × 1.44222 = full-frame, so he put in an offer on a 40mm Kilfitt Makro-Kilar guess what? we got another bad review! Gabe hung out with friend-of-show Chris Smirnoff and also Robert Capron, who played Rowley in Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and went to a screening of Anvil: The Story of Anvil with the mighty Fred Coury the end of “de minimis” is a catastrophe if you buy stuff from abroad; check this eBay page for all the grim details - and thanks to tariffs, Ausgeknipst no longer ships to the US the boys take a graceful swan dive into quite the Prodigious Mailbag™ the folks at AOK Camera Repair win the coveted IDOC endorsement Gabe’s pictures feature in a Judd Apatow article in the latest Vanity Fair and Camera Maintenance & Repair by Thomas Tomosy is super-expensive, so grab the PDF from the Internet Archive or from here

    1h 20m
  5. 09/02/2025

    Episode 95 • Swiss Miss

    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™

    1h 10m
4.8
out of 5
59 Ratings

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The smash hit podcast about cameras and camera collecting from Jeff Greenstein and Gabe Sachs.

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