I Dream of Cameras

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 XPanGabe’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 facewhat 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!

More like L.A. De Da, because both hosts are together in the City of Angels: scoring sibling Olympi at a camera show, talking “new” Kodak film stocks with tasty typography, and shooting the works with a half-frame Swiss, a square-frame German and an American GOOSE. Tune in - it'll change your wife!this episode is dedicated to the memory of the great photographer Diane Keatonour second bad review has utterly vanished!Jeff’s results with the half-cookie Alpa 10s were delightful...shooting with the Polaroid GOOSE was a total kick...and the square-frame Zeiss Ikon Taxona - two-thirds of a cookie! - is a fun alternative to the elusive Mamiya Sketchat the wondrous L.A. Camera Expo, Gabe snapped up an Olympus 35RC, while Jeff went for big brother 35SPn, a rarer version of the 35SP with better typographyChad GPT misled us again! he made Jeff buy a Kilfitt Makro-Kilar in Exakta mount, insisting it was AlpaKodacolor returns - or does it? once again, all we care about is good typography!how embarrassing: Jeff’s nemesis has entered the world of fashionwe had a blast at the Bike Shed complex in DTLA’s Arts Districtwe actually empty the Prodigious Mailbag™ for a changeand finally, we urge you continue imploring Debbie Gibson to perform our theme song for the 100th episode

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 wellGabe (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 Filmthe 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-Kilarguess 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 Courythe 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 USthe boys take a graceful swan dive into quite the Prodigious Mailbag™the folks at AOK Camera Repair win the coveted IDOC endorsementGabe’s pictures feature in a Judd Apatow article in the latest Vanity Fairand Camera Maintenance & Repair by Thomas Tomosy is super-expensive, so grab the PDF from the Internet Archive or from here

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 equipmentJeff 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 robotwe urge you to check out the Cameradactyl Master System from mad scientist Ethan MosesGabe is back in the hunt for camera bags - his new obsession is the sexy, stylish and super-expensive Bleu de Chauffemeanwhile, Jeff’s Strand Bookstore messenger bag is dirt cheap!we both flipped for Sissi Lu’s new googly-eyed hang-tag lens clothJeff 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™

Jeff’s been engaged for over a month, and is suffused with bonhomie and goodwill, while the normally sanguine Gabe is ENRAGED! At eBay sellers who say “make an offer,” but don’t actually want one; at overpriced camera straps and thumb drives — he’s seething! Next, the boys note some stereotypically male behavior from “Chad” GPT, discuss the financial state of our beloved Kodak, examine the controversy over Nick Ut’s “Terror of War” photo, and take a swan dive into an exceptionally Prodigious Mailbag. Finally: will Debbie Gibson record a vocal version of our theme song for the upcoming (and final?) 100th episode, or is that Only In My Dreams? Shake Your Love and find out!Gabe traveled to Lake Muskoka north of Toronto and shot no filmJeff asked ChatGPT to compare the Closter Princess Junior with the Galileo Condor II, and it claimed they were bikes! We now dub the app “Chad GPT,” because he’s a man who'll never say “I Don't Know”!is Kodak in trouble? Calm down!we discuss the emergent controversy over the authorship of Nick Ut’s “Terror of War” photo, as recounted in the new documentary The Stringer - for example, even AP admits the negative was not shot with Ut's preferred Leica M2, but a cheap Pentax, and our trusty dusty camera repair guy confirms thisGabe rails at eBay sellers who say “make offer” but don't want an offeralso, when is the asking price too high? for straps, thumb drives, Alpa strap lugs...?Jeff openly derides absurd packfilm pricesGabe rhapsodizes about OC Camera in Laguna Hillswe both love Sissi Lu's recent photo shoot with her momour trusty dusty camera repair guy replaced the focusing screen in Gabe’s Rolleiflex 2.8E, and the results are gloriousthe Prodigious Mailbag™ includes an unexpected eyewitness update on Jeff's Alpa 10s half-cookieGabe will be at the LA Camera Expo this Sunday, August 17thour designer (and award-winning photographer) Keith Greenstein is back on Instagramcheck out The Darkroom Rumour, The Darkroom’s amazing new streaming site for photo documentariesand let's get Debbie Gibson to record a vocal version of our theme song with composer Fred Coury for the 100th episode!

Vapid glad-handing? Try happy wed-banding, because Jeff and P are engaged! This blockbuster XL episode features a brief recap of the proposal and a lengthy recap of the engagement-moon that followed, with a smattering of camera content along the way. Tune in for all the romance!Gabe went to New York!at B&H, the mighty Shlomo hooked him up with a Rolleiflex 2.8E - so much for that 30-camera limit!hung out with Sissi Lu and Chris Chushot nothing but film with the Leica M6went to an event at Kodak House, saw some great stuff shot with with a Kodak Baby Brownieand left J + P a cool old Christie’s auction catalog from the Chelsea flea marketJeff lingered in Europe!bought and then returned a Zeiss Tenax IIpicked up film, books and apparel at the Zurich Ars Imagosnagged a Freitag Lassie bike-messenger bag at their flagship store as an all-weather beach-friendly camera toteback home, his half-cookie Alpa 10s is undergoing major surgerywhile the recent Leica auction featured a similar Alpa 10s half frameand also the last original Alpa ever built! the 11es JubileeKodak Vision 3 may yield gorgeous results, but getting it processed is challenging - Atlanta Film Company to the rescueat Nice airport, the Sissi Lu Do Not X-Ray bag was a lifesaverwe share news of big Chattanooga photo walk we’re sadly missing!and finally: two gods have ascended to a higher plane, Ozzy Osbourne and Tom Lehrer

Episode № 92 finds the boys in Sunset Strip rock clubs and sun-baked Czech vineyards, sampling exotic cinema film and strange European cameras, taking in celebrity gallery shows and nibbling koláče. What happened to those two humble kids from the oak groves of Riverdale and the pine forests of Atlanta — and who is Mike Sopko? Tune in to IDOC’s latest and find out — they’ve only got eight more to go!question: were we crisper and more cogent in earlier episodes? does this guy have a point?? buy a mug if you concur!Gabe (and resident rock god Fred Coury) took Canadian hockey reporter Scott Laughlin to the Rainbow Room, then Mini-Kiss (a Kiss tribute band consisting entirely of little people) at the RoxyGabe also went to a Cameras and Coffee…saw the amazing Paul McCartney show at Gagosian Galleryhunted for a replacement for his beloved Canon R5 and Sigma 85mm Art Lens… and Roberts Camera a.k.a. UsedPhotoPro came through! Meredith put together an incredible package for himGabe returned to the LA Camera Expo at the Hotel Burbank and snapped up a Leicaflex SL with a 60mm f2.8 three-cam lensbut it didn’t stop there! he also nabbed a Hasselblad 501CM from Ethan Ingram, and a point-and-shoot to be named later - he’s arrived at the promised 30-camera collectionhold on there’s more! with an assist from Brandon Steadman, he (might) also (have) snapped up a Leica R8, which would bring the collection to 31 (not including some broken ones) - okay, maybe we’re calling it thirtyishJeff’s been in a Prague for a month, has shot 22 rolls of film, and cannot live without his XPan exposure compensation dial - how ’bout you? do you use yours?when the paint chipped off his e.c. dial, Jeff did a quick fix with a white paint pen from a local art supply storealso, he found a new local lab to complement the mighty FotoŠkoda: FilmStore Prague, which has excellent prices for developing & scanningplus they roll their own Kodak Vision 3 cinema film, leaving the remjet on, and process it ECN-2 - Jeff shot their 250D and found the palette beautiful and the images stunningly sharp, and it’s half the local cost of Portra!(n.b.: it’s not the same as CineStill’s old 250D, which had the remjet removed)Jeff bought a rare Minox photo book from a seller in Germany and had it shipped straight to his Prague apartment, thereby saving tons of money and time - check out the preview on YouTube of Oktaeder: Spy-cam Sketches Minox 8x11 by Peter Bernardhe also bought a vintage Alpa employee badge on eBay and vows to wear the late Mike Sopko’s nametag with pride - Mike repaired cameras at the also-late Crick Camera in Kansas City for over forty years - here’s to you, Mike!seller goKevincameras is struggling mightily with tariff issuesof course we must rifle wildly through our Prodigious Mailbag™Gabe’s advice on how to how to find people to photograph? ask local artists!a final note: mere hours after recording this episode, Jeff’s XPan suffered its second bout of Sudden Fujifilm Battery Death™ in less than a month!

Once again I Dream of Cameras spans the globe, with Jeff in Prague and Gabe in Los Angeles, and not even a nine-hour time difference can slow us down! In fact, one might say we are utterly devoid of camera viscosity, or “camerosity” for short. In this supersized episode…Jeff unknowingly chatted up Danny Clinch about his Leica Q2 at the Trombone Shorty Soho Session, and the acclaimed photographer was faintly dismissivefor the next two months Jeff’s in Prague, where the camera shops (FotoŠkoda, Jan Pazdera) are far too alluringhe’s been eyeing a lovely Zeiss Tenax II, a flawed Olympus 35SPn, and a beautifully brassed black Canonflex RMbefore departure, Jeff did the unthinkable: snagged a bargain-basement half-frame Alpa 10s on the ‘Bay - it’s half a Swiss cookie and the realization of a lifelong dream!talking Leicas with Dave Tada, Gabe realized he needs a 35mm lens for his Leica III - he already has the 50mm Serenar, so any suggestions?Gabe went to the Fujifilm event for their bizarre new half-a-cookie digital - what did he learn about the elusive x100vi?Gabe has gone half-cookie INSANE with his Olympus Pen FT, so now our friend Sissi Lu has enticed him to give the Pentax One Seven one more try - what will he grab next, the chunky plastic Pentax or the mighty meterless Olympus Pen FV?he’s got a portrait shoot coming up, and plans to use the Kiev 60, the Leica III and the Mamiya RZ67as for replenishing his collection, he’s up to 27 of a planned 30 cameras Jeff was shooting around Prague when Sudden Fujifilm Battery Death struck again! Fuji’s battery displays in both the XPan and GA645 are pure fictionGabe’s also been rebuilding his book collection with Duane Michals Portraits and volumes by Sarah Moon and Clifford Coffinlet us now praise John Wade’s Retro Cameras, which is what Ralph Bellamy’s book should have beenonce again we make it halfway down the depths of our Prodigious Mailbag™Gabe unleashes a raft of thank-yousand adds a final postscript: nature is healing and he’s back in the bag business, welcoming a new Nomatic Luma McKinnon

This episode starts out great, then gets better and better. It’s informative and witty, talking about the real joys of film. There are distinctive gear reviews, as Jeff raves about his new Pentax MX, possibly triggering the IDOC effect on eBay. And of course, there’s plenty of vapid gladhanding, as Gabe hits one LA camera show after another. Plenty to hear here, so tune in!well looky here! Bad Review Guy updated his bad review on iTunes! guess he's still listening! as for the rest of you, leave us a good one, OK?Busy Gabe went to his first camera meetup since the Palisades fire: Beers & Cameras in Venice…saw a pristine Widelux F7 with the coveted filter set, purchased from Blue Moon Camera…got gifted the beat-up black-paint Nikon F of his dreams…went to the LA Camera Expo in Burbank…also received from spider_dude two Walker Evans books, incl. Walker Evans & Company…and met up with Claire Hinkley to shoot with the Mamiya C33, the Leicaflex SL and the Nikon FEJeff's yearning for a Pentax MX took him from MX to ME SE to (courtesy of the good folks at K&M Camera) the Nikon FG…but then back to the MX, which is lovely - it's a K1000, only better and smaller!podpal Ollie grabbed a groovy Kiev 10 at Unique Photo in PhiladelphiaJeff took in the excellent Weegee and American Job shows at ICP…and had coffee with Sissi Lu, discussing the triumph of her Do Not X-Ray bag and her love of the Pentax One Sevennow Jeff's Eurotrip is imminent... and ChatGPT’s camera recommendations were uncanny!finally, we tackle as much of the Prodigious Mailbag™ as we can handle till it’s time for Jeff to have burritos with his girlfriend

Jeff’s back from the Caribbean island of St. Barth’s with a report on his new favorite beach camera, while out in the West, Gabe’s renewed camera collection continues to burgeon... as does the enmity of one listener each time Jeff mentions the Pentax 17. Find out why in the latest un-dour, un-flaccid episode of I Dream of Cameras, because provocation is our forte!Gabe shot his Kiev 60 and the Bronica ETR-Siand is eyeing:black Leicaflex SL35mm f4 Schneider lens for Leicaflexand Mamiya Universalmeanwhile, Jeff is eyeing:Pentax MXWeltron 2007Atari 4-Player FootballAlpa Si 3000Nikkor FJeff's St. Barth's report: the Ona Union Street camera bag was idealof course he brought the Hasselblad XPan, but at the last minute subbed in the Canon EOS Rebel 2000 for the Olympus XA4, and it was the perfect beach-party nighttime-flash trash camerahe shot mostly Portra 160 and 400, but also tried some Santacolor 100 and Film Washi X, which it turns out are the same thing! Kodak Aerocolor IVno hand-check madness on this trip - Sint Maarten, Saint Barthélemy, all security personnel were totally obliging - once again we credit the Sissi Lu DO NOT X-RAY bag, now available at a camera store near yougood travel buddies: Zeiss lens wipes and a rocket air blowerlet’s help Lina Bessonova and handcheckfilm.com! when you travel, send a report to her contact page so she can keep this valuable resource up to dateGabe recommends Graination in Toronto, a coffee shop and film labwe stick our snouts deep into the Prodigious Mailbag™, where a listener savagely upbraids Jeff for calling the Pentax 17 by its proper name (here’s proof)finally, look for our appearance on an obscure podcast called Camerosity, talkin’ Alpas

Gabe spills the tea — about the cameras he’s hunting for as he rapidly rebuilds his collection — while Jeff spills the coffee. That’s it. He spills it. Then recounts a whirlwind European trip featuring a phantasmagoria of phenomenal photographica. New York, London, Paris, dry-dock — everybody talk about pop IDOC!Jeff bought a camera bag! okay, he found a used Ona Union Street at B&H, but whaaaaat????… then he went to London …got an odd little book at The Photographer's Gallery on Analog Photographyvisited Camera City, said hi to Pany, did not buy a Bronica RF645visited Aperture Photographic, gaped at the amazing inventory, talked with Simon about photography with a Pentax Stereo Adapter, did not buy an absurd Contax Previewvisited Mr Cad, kibitzed with the legendary Alex Falk, did not buy a rare and tantalizing Wrayflex, once again got the book instead… then on to Paris …visited Photo-Vincent, met the man himself, drooled over a black Alpa 6c and the 30mm lens for the XPanthere was zero hand-check madness on this trip! we credit the Sissi Lu DO NOT X-RAY bagthe sainted John-Michael Mendizza sent Gabe a Rolleiflex 2.8c and Jeff a Zeiss Taxonahow’s Gabe getting on with his half-a-cookie Olympus Pen FT? he’s on frame 56…the viewfinder’s a bit dim, so Jeff unfortunately altered him to the existence of the Pen FVGabe’s up to twenty cameras of his planned thirty-camera collection, and here are the items on his hit list:Mamiya RZ67Kiev 60 with Volna-3 lensMamiya C330black Leicaflex SLPentax MX (he’s already got the 40mm pancake!)a brassed black Nikon Fand the 35mm Sigma art lens for the Canon EOS 3Gabe got a Yashicamat LM and a Minolta SRT-101 from Maria Elena Rodriguezopened the time capsule camera bag, went back to the Palisades house with Brandon, and unearthed more camerasJeff has a final book recommendation: Tight Heads by Candy Clarkwe finally voyage to the very bottom of our Prodigious Mailbag™ and end with a challenge: write lyrics for our theme song! you could win fabulous prizes!

A long-awaited catch-up in which Gabe reviews the events of the past month. The biggest news: he bought a half-frame camera! WHAT IS UP WITH THIS DUDE? Tune in for the rollicking debrief!how’s Gabe doing? well, he:took some trips to the Palisades house with Brandonfound the remains of many cameras, including Rolleiflexeswas interviewed by National Geographic reporter Gideon Mendel, who documents such thingsand has returned to shooting! with the Rolleiflex 3.5E, Nikon FE, Leica M6…...but not the cameras in the bag he grabbed on the day of the fire Trev Lee thoughtfully returned the Rolleiflex Gabe had traded him for his Leica M5Gabe went to the LA Camera Expo, which is shaping up greatwhile in LA, Jeff shot with:Rolleiflex SL350 — sublime!Canon F-1 Lake Placid Olympics edition — underrated!Rollei C35 — ridiculous!FujiFilm GA645 — confounding!upon departure, he removed all batteries from idle cameras ‘cause he’s compulsiveand he swapped Alpas! the 11si and 50mm Kern-Macro-Switar came east, while the 10s and 24mm Angenieux stayed west!shocking half-a-cookie news! Gabe bought an Olympus Pen FT!while Jeff failed to snag a Zeiss Tenax II, so he bought the book by Wes Loder insteadand he received a cool Lego Retro Camera as a gift from Todd and Mistiemay we draw your attention to Andy Gray’s amazing IDOC-inspired Pentax MF mod pagea rare treat! Jeff dined with Sunny 16’s Clare Marie Bailey and her brilliant musician friend Gwenno at the storied Chelsea Hotelwe take an emotional dip into our Prodigious Mailbag™and finally, we urge you to see Bob Trevino Likes It, starring our friends Barbie Ferreira and French Stewart

Wednesday, January 8, 2025, 8:11 a.m. PST. Text from Gabe Sachs:“Well, all I can say is… I bet I have culled my camera collection faster than anyone else in history.”In this episode, Gabe recounts his experience during the Palisades Fire, which destroyed over a hundred Rolleiflex TLRs.Tune in for all the details.

I Dream of Cameras kicks off the new year with another blockbuster XL episode! Jeff chillingly limns the hundred-degree delta between Jamaica and Iceland, and how the Fuji GA645 and Hasselblad XPan fared in each. Gabe exhumes some old warhorses from the back of the camera cabinet. And they top it all off with some STRONG OPINIONS about a new film-camera book. Tune in for all the fireworks!a scant 13 days after returning from a beach vacation in Jamaica, Jeff jetted off to Iceland for New Year’s, toting along the Fujifilm GA645 Professional and the Hasselblad XPan — how did they fare?Gabe recounts a recent photo shoot with the lovely Lyliana Wray, featuring the Nikon D700, Canon Sure Shot Owl and Jeff’s beloved Olympus 35 RCin the course of reorganizing, Gabe unearthed a few long-neglected cameras he wants to shoot with:Exakta VX IIaZeiss Ikon Super IkontaPentacon Six TLand the mighty Graflex Super Dat Jeff’s behest, the heroes at Ausgeknipst made a PX450 adapter for the Alpa 10 serieswelcome to another edition of Jeff’s deeply nerdy “Nobody Cares” Corner! this time he does a lengthy exegesis of camera serial numbers — there’s so much you can learn! some examples:FujifilmHasselblad, using the VHPICTURES codeKodak, using the CAMEROSITY codeKonica, using the MY BEST KONICA codeLeicaPolaroid SX-70Rollei 35Jeff reviews Ralph Bellamy a.k.a. Bellamy Hunt a.k.a. Japan Camera Hunter's new book Film Camera Zen. shots fired!! come at me, Ralph!and finally, we take a graceful swan-dive into our Prodigious Mailbag™

Episode № 84 is a special rush-released super-sized Christmas / Hanukkah episode — unwrap it and enjoy!Gabe’s been shooting with the Polaroid Big Swinger, Rolleiflex 2.8E2, Nikon F2, Leica M4…he had a lab mishap! they made it right, but it still shakes your confidencePolaroid peel-apart camera rollers vs. bladesGabe went to Alcove Café with Rafael Hernandez and Dave Tada, members of the elite Fuji X100VI club, and now he's lusting for onesubmitted for your approval: the mighty Fujifilm GF670 Professionalwhen was the last time Jeff shot with the Leica M6 TTL? August 2021… so we’re both culling our collections! message us!is there a camera that’s too perfect? that you shoot too quickly with? like the Canon EOS Rebel 2000 or Canon 5D?Jeff didn’t shoot much in Jamaica, and here’s why: he wanted no barriers between him and the experience - do you sympathize?the Fujifilm GA645 Professional gave Jeff a scare - as with the XPan, Fuji’s battery indicators are wildly deceptiveare CR123 and CR123a the same battery? maybe!final reckoning: which cameras will Jeff bring to Iceland? meanwhile, Ollie’s bringing a Kodak Medalist!expired 220 film is super-intriguing!Gabe feels he can always count on his Rolleiflex - what are the cameras you rely on?our Prodigious Mailbag™ is bigger than Santa’s bag of toysnext episode, Jeff reviews Bellamy Hunt a.k.a. Japan Camera Hunter's new book Film Camera Zen - tune in for the tea!

I Dream of Cameras storms into the fifth year of its five-year mission with new life and new civilization! Gabe went on a photo tear through New York City. Jeff cut an astounding deal on new gear at the Chelsea flea market. And there are imminent trips to Jamaica, Iceland and downtown LA. Will your enterprising interlocutors boldly go where no XPan has gone before? Pluck our latest pod and find out!welcome to IDOC Year Five!Gabe recounts his visit to B&H Photo in New York with rockstar street-shooter Sissi Lu and repair guru Shlomowho killed Fotografiska NYC? could it be… Satan?to find out, Jeff and P watched Finding Vivian Maierat Sissi’s behest, Gabe will be giving the controversial Pentax 17 another half-a-shotJeff’s coveted 24mm Angenieux for the Alpa arrived, and it's gorgeoushe also made an impulse buy at the 25th St. flea market in Chelsea…a Fujifilm GA645 Professional, complete with original box, papers, case and caps!it’s a medium-format half-a-cookie autofocus point-and-shoot! 6x4.5 but not a big ugly box!negotiation strategy: Jeff and Ollie cut a package deal with the seller for the Fuji, a Contax III and a Konica Big Mini - what a bargain!the GA645 image size is 56×42mm = 2,352mm² (XPan is 1,560mm²), so should it replace the XPan on Jeff’s forthcoming trips to Jamaica… and Iceland?Gabe’s planning a night shoot with Leicas M10, Monochrom and M4.. and flash!and of course, we close with an exceptionally informative and Prodigious Mailbag™• • go to our merch page for all your holiday gift-giving!

“Four more years! Four more years!” Could you have ever imagined, when these two miscreants launched I Dream of Cameras on 11/20/20, that four years later the show would be an unstoppable juggernaut and the toast of seven continents? Neither could we! In this epic-sode, Gabe dons a dopey hat and Jeff a dopey visage to reflect upon IDOC’s journey from to zygote to Smash Hit. There’s a quiz! A truce! A song! A rundown of panoramic aspect ratios! Tune in for all the persiflage and badinage, which is NEVER, EVER BORING!It’s our fourth anniversary show, and Gabe wore a stupid hat! Celebrate four years of our Smash Hit Podcast™ by giving us notes!Gabe went to a Beers and Cameras meetup at Canyon Coffee in Echo Park…… and William Piper let him try his Plaubel Makina 67 - but Gabe has an issue with it!Gabe quizzes Jeff about how well he knows his podpartnerJeff bought himself a birthday present, the rare and coveted 24mm Angenieux for the Alpa… waited all day for it to arrive… and the mailman passed him by! We invite you to share your own maddening “waiting for new equipment” storiesJeff embarks on an ill-advised and deeply nerdy rundown of panoramic aspect ratios (XPan, Minolta P’s, Widelux) vs. various cinema formatsNo more animosity with Camerosity! we love those guys, and not just ‘cause they wanna collaborate on an Alpa episodeGabe went to a Catalina wine mixer, POW! - USC’s Distinguished Leaders Program - and led the participating CEOs through a cool photography exercisefinally, we take a relaxing dip in our prestigious and Prodigious Mailbag™, perhaps our best yet! prepare to be moved!

Like “Man in Black” Johnny Cash, Gabe Sachs is never seen without his signature ebon apparel. So what could coax him into donning a white dress shirt? And while we’re asking questions: who’s shooting 220 film, what’s a Zunow, and can Jeff actually perform Tom Lehrer’s “The Elements” on command? Find out in the latest obsidian-dark episode of I Dream of Cameras!Gabe was plied with birthday gifts!a camera-print shirt from a Paris boutiqueEyes Wide Open! 100 Years of Leica Photographya Polaroid Big Swinger and three precious packs of Fujifilm FP-3000bJeff made a world-wind trip to LA, where he and Gabe dined with Jeff’s friend and Renaissance-woman Cathy Rogers of indiepop legends Heavenly and Junkyard Wars a.k.a. Scrapheap ChallengeToday is Jeff’s 12th Alpaversary, yet his cherished 11si does not exist!to celebrate, he replaced the mirror foam in his Alpa 10s, and has a sexy how-to tip!Gabe bought a thrashed Rolleicord with Rolleinar close-up attachment and is wracked with regretJeff shot the Heavenly show with a Pentax 6x7 and 45mm lens and does not recommendyet he was quite pleased with his wedding shots from the XPan and Olympus XA4Gabe loved the documentary Uncropped, produced by Wes Anderson, about photographer James Hamiltonalso take note of Glen E. Friedman, seminal skateboard, punk and hip-hop shooter whose work is all over Dogtown and Z-Boysnow some questions! ever tried Shanghai 220 film?ever heard of the fascinating and ultra-rare Zunow SLR?did you know Tom Lehrer did a version of “The Elements” for a Polaroid sales meeting?and finally, our Prodigious Mailbag™, featuring a truly devastating missive from John Kelly, late of the Washington Post, in which he compares IDOC to the obscure and little-heard Camerosity podcast

Our blockbuster eightieth episode includes talk of wedding shoots and model shoots, German Rolleis and Swiss Alpas, plastic Pentaxes and Pano Portrait Snobs. Tune in for all the badinage!Eighty episodes — even the hosts can’t remember the highlights! So which three episodes would you recommend to the uninitiated?Gabe went to a Cameras & Coffee meetup at the Culver Steps……where he drooled over an Olympus OM-4Ti and a MamiyaflexHe also brought five cameras to a shoot with Claire Hinkley:the rare and coveted Tele-Rolleiflex lent to him by the sainted John-Michael Mendizzathe old faithfuls: Rolleiflex 2.8E2 and Leica M4the mighty Nikon FM3aand a long-languishing Hasselblad 500CWhen Jeff and his siblings met up in Philadelphia for their yearly Fourphans™ Weekend, the Canon EOS Rebel 2000 with 40mm lens was his faithful plastic companionHe also went to Unique Photo and gaped at some rare Alpas, including the freakish 8b, which is both an SLR and a rangefinderWhich cameras did he use to cover his girlfriend’s son’s wedding?Canon EOS Rebel 2000 for pre-wedding prepOlympus XA4 with A11 flash for the rehearsal dinnerand of course the Hasselblad XPan for rooftop beauty shots of the betrothedYearning to get some new gear, Jeff grabbed an 24mm Angenieux lens for the Alpa at KEH… only to return it because it was not Alpa mount, but ExaktaHe also handled a Pentax 17 and recoiled from its icky extruded bodyAnd despite his devotion to the XPan, he bombed at the Epson Pano Awards — could he be a victim of the pano portrait snobs?As requested by faithful listener Gaetan Cormier, may we present the “So good” t-shirt, a loving tribute to Gabe’s catchphraseAnd finally: a deep dive into our Prodigious Mailbag™

Gabe Sachs, 25 years after Freaks and Geeks, is the Astrid Kirchherr of American comedy; Jeff Greenstein, 25 hours after Paris Fashion Week, is the Derek Zoolander of European modeling. Tune in for their rollicking adventures!Jeff’s just back from a wild trip to Paris! Including:P did a runway gig for Balmain for Fashion Week…while Jeff modeled for renowned photographer Leslie Kee of Super magazine…suffered hand-check travails at Orly Airport…and browsed overpriced gear at Euro-Photoour friend Chloe Kissner now has a photo businessGabe did a photo shoot with Raven-Symonémysterious lightning marks on film - could it be static electricity?Freaks and Geeks just turned 25, and Gabe Sachs is the Astrid Kirchherr of contemporary comedyGabe did a lightning-fast photo session with new dad Eoin Mackenis the Wandrd Prvke Lite the platonic ideal of camera bags?our Prodigious Mailbag™, including a passing mention of lost folksinger Connie Converse, whose music and new biography you should investigate