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    I Dream of Cameras

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

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    Episode 75 • We Finally Accept Some Praise Jul 23, 2024
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    One of the Best Photography Podcasts To Listen To In 2024 (per Amateur Photographer magazine) returns to bask in some praise for a change! In this blockbuster XL episode, we run down our travels in Europe and Canada, recap recent celebrity photo shoots, exult over exotic gear acquisitions, and dive to the bottom of our Prodigious and Informative Mailbag™! Tune in to see what the fuss is about!

    THE BIGGEST NEWS: our smash hit podcast earned global acclaim, as Amateur Photographer named us one of the best photography podcasts of 2024! Thanks, Jess Miller!

    you’d be wise to consult Lina Bessonova’s invaluable hand check guide before traveling

    Jeff once again experienced sudden XPan battery death after less than a month (= 30 rolls), so mock his spreadsheet at your peril

    a Czech photographer picked on Jeff for daring to do portraits with a pano camera - also, he failed to make the cut for Brooklyn Film Camera’s photo show - the shame!

    finding film in far-flung locations is HARD, so stock up

    Jeff recounts an extremely bad experience with a Rome photo lab

    not to be out-traveled, Gabe went to Canada with his Leica M10 and Noctilux - what’s more, he:

    …visited Leitz Road in Midland, Ontario so his lens could see its birthplace

    …hung out with Jessica Devic at Youthful Vengeance Coffee in Toronto - she’s a tremendous photographer, check her out

    …toured Memento Film Lab in Toronto

    …shot Claire Hinkley with the peerless Olympus 35 RC and monstrous Mamiya C330

    …and had a Fred Coury rock ’n’ roll idyll at the Rainbow and Whisky a Go Go with Taime Downe of Faster Pussycat

    Jeff harpooned a long-sought white whale you’ve never heard of: the Petri Color 35 Custom

    Gabe bonded with a TSA agent at Toronto Airport who turned out to be a film shooter

    behold the B&H Lego set!

    check out the Half Frame List of half-cookie cameras in current production

    we’ll be at the Bruce Gilden and Vivian Maier shows at Fotografiska in August

    and finally, our Prodigious and Informative Mailbag™, featuring plenty of fierce clapback about the Pentax 17


    Episode 74 • Ubriaco A Roma Jul 01, 2024
    Show notes

    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


    Episode 73 • I Have Your Review in Front of Me Jun 10, 2024
    Show notes

    “I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review before me. In a moment it will be behind me.”

    — Max Reger, German composer (1873–1916), responding to a savage review

    Jeff’s in Lisbon at the start of a month-long European trip; Gabe’s in LA developing his own film for the first time in years. But what’s obsessing them the most? Their first rotten review! Tune in for all the merriment and NO PRAISE!

    Jeff’s choice of cameras and film for a month-long European trip:

    the Hasselblad XPan with both the 45mm and 90mm lenses

    the mighty Olympus XA4 macro

    24 rolls of Kodak Portra 400 and Portra 160

    Gabe’s eBay misadventure in pursuit of the Pentax 50mm 1.7:

    the “as-is” Pentax ME Super and S1 turned out to be nonfunctional, the lens was dented…

    …but he did get a Watson bulk loader!

    He lent his Canon EOS 3 to Martin Starr… so he had to buy a replacement: the EOS Elan 7NE. Which was perfect — even better than our beloved Rebel 2000!

    More eBaying: Gabe also got the Nikon 85mm f1.4D

    and he got his beloved Leica M3 repaired by our trusty dusty camera repair guy! whom he interviewed! and who may finally be unmasked in an upcoming episode!

    Jeff was on the cusp of buying an Olympus OM-3 when his cherished 12” Retina MacBook dropped dead… hence no OM-3

    Gabe went shooting with the Elan and his Rolleiflex and processed the film himself — it’s a new era!

    In Lisbon, Jeff visited Vintage Dream Cameras and took a hard, hard look at a Snoopy 110 camera and a rare Leica IIIc with sharkskin leatherette

    We got a terrible review!

    Gabe compared Rolleiflex TLRs with Dave Tada, but it turns out there are lots of differences between the 2.8E and the 2.8E2! Also, Dave’s has an RZ67 finder!

    Our friend Oliver’s exotic Chinese Pearl River SLR

    Jeff experienced sudden XPan battery death

    We empty out our Prodigious Mailbag™

    Some notes on our composer Fred Coury: his former band Cinderella’s Night Songs was released on this day in 1986; also, Fred just won his 6th Emmy!


    Episode 72 • Mint & Rare & Cameras & Coffee May 22, 2024
    Show notes

    A transformational live-on-locational supersensational IDOCstravaganza! First we go to a Los Angeles Photography Club Cameras and Coffee meetup in Koreatown to talk to folks about their cameras and dogs. Then we SPAN THE GLOBE to interview Jo Geier, proprietor of Mint and Rare, a phenomenal camera shop in Vienna, Austria. You won’t want to miss this one, so TOON IN!


    Episode 71 • Tucker: The Dog and His Dream May 08, 2024
    Show notes

    Consulting Producer Tucker Sachs, the real brains behind I Dream of Cameras, has long lurked in the shadows with a bone and a chew toy, but in this episode he finally steps into the light. Also discussed: photo books, photo contests, photo walks and photo acquisitions, along with every syllable of your deathless prose from the Prodigious Mailbag™. It’s a doggie-dog world!

    Daido Moriyama’s ’71 NY is an incredible photo book shot on an Olympus Pen W

    Gabe had a blast at the latest Beers and Cameras feat. Joe Stitt

    Spotted: a Fujica ST 801

    check out Walker Evans' subway photo book, shot with a Contax II: Many Are Called

    Jeff entered an Epson pano competition - any favorite photo contests?

    Gabe really should get a Nikon SP, but in the meantime he finally snagged an ugly black-paint Nikon F from KEH

    our new cult favorite film: FPP Color 125

    bulk-loading and its discontents

    Gabe scored a slew of point-and-shoots at a yard sale for a total of $28:

    Olympus Infinity II

    Fuji Discovery

    Pentax IQ Zoom

    Olympus Infinity Jr.

    Polaroid announced an upgrade to their B&W 600 film - kudos!

    The IDOC gang are planning a Polaroid-peel-apart-film-shooting festival

    check out Sissi Lu's reels and IG live shots

    Jeff is performing at the Ruskin Theatre in Santa Monica on Mother's Day (click See a Show and then look for Library Girl)

    The Prodigious Mailbag™ features the Osmond brothers doing Crazy Horses

    Hank Haddock’s ISO 3200 stickers (designed by Suné Horn) will help you avoid arguments at airport security - find them at tinyurl.com/savemyfilm

    do you make photo books, and if so how?

    and finally, Consulting Producer Tucker Sachs puts in an appearance


    Episode 70 • Say Hello to Vivian Apr 18, 2024
    Show notes

    He wouldn’t…. Now that the long-raging and ill-advisedly-ignited Vivian Maier debate has finally died down, Jeff wouldn’t throw gasoline on those embers by expressing a Strong Opinion about some recent Viv-related news, would he? Well, you’ll just have to tune in to find out. Also discussed: the boys swap cities, Gabe in New York and Jeff in Los Angeles; recent shooting adventures with a slew of cameras both old and new; and the proper way to express your love of our smash hit podcast: through lavish gifts!

    we had a tremendous response to the last episode — clearly 69 is something people really enjoy

    heh heh heh, the folks at Camerosity took the bait — haven’t y’all read The Mouse That Roared?

    Gabe’s adventures in New York shooting his Rolleiflex and Leica M10 with Sissi Lu (shoutout: Katz’s Deli) and Chris Chu (shoutout: Salt’s Cure), plus drive-bys at B&H and picturehouse + the small darkroom

    Jeff sold his Robot Royal 24, but shipping to South Korea was twice as much as what the UPS website originally quoted, so he realized a net profit of $3.32

    however, he still wanted a square-format 35mm, so bring on the Mamiya Sketch… which is delightful and quirky!

    shooting the Canonflex R2000

    shooting the Pentax MF with FPP Color 125 (see Jeff’s article in Casual Photophile)

    a hearty thanks to super-listener Jeffry Pittman, who sent us a Baby Rollei, a Hermes 3000 typewriter, and lots of film

    iPhone iOS 17.4 now includes podcast transcripts so you may enjoy our soaring rhetorical flourishes

    Jeff mildly reacts to some recent Vivian Maier news

    Gabe’s planning an all-medium-format film shoot with the Pentax 6x7, the Mamiya RZ67, and the Hasselblad 501CM

    a passing mention of new friend Peter Kagan, about whom you will hear more

    a bold voyage into our Prodigious Mailbag™

    and finally, a fond farewell to the great Joe Flaherty


    Episode 69 • P Apr 02, 2024
    Show notes

    Paulina Porizkova joins the boys to offer her unique perspective on the art and business of fashion photography. How’d she get into it? What’s the most important thing a photographer should know about working with models? Why does Paulina call Irving Penn “Mr. Penn”? Does the fact that Jeff has a spreadsheet of when he last changed the batteries in his cameras render him more attractive? All this and much, much more in our sexy Episode № 69 — nice!

    how Paulina got into modeling at age 15, how she learned the craft

    her growing awareness of lighting and cameras

    the dance between photographer and model, and how it’s altered by different types of camera

    how a photographer’s behavior influences a model’s confidence

    how real is the Veruschka scene from Blow-Up?

    do you know if the shot is good?

    how aware are you of camera equipment?

    can what you know about modeling be taught?

    pay attention to lighting! take a selfie when you look great!

    were you ever interested in photography yourself?

    her late husband Ric Ocasek’s interest in photography

    studio vs. location shooting

    the business of modeling is not what you think!

    does the fact that Jeff has a spreadsheet of when he last changed the batteries in his cameras render him more attractive?

    what is the most important thing a photographer should know about working with models?

    is it different working with a female photographer?

    working with Irving Penn and why P always calls him “Mister”

    Bill King

    the one photographer she wishes she’d had a chance to work with: Helmut Newton

    the resurgence of 35mm point-and-shoots in fashion photography, e.g. Marie Tomanova’s shoot for Czech Vogue

    can you get a good shot of a model by being mean to her?

    what’s it like shooting with your boyfriend, former photographer of plants and buildings?

    the portrait by Jeff that P loves

    her Top 5 photographers she enjoyed working with:

    Mr. Penn

    Arthur Elgort (author of Camera Ready and Camera Crazy)

    Patrick Demarchelier

    Marcus Bard

    Marco Glaviano

    what’s it like being constantly confronted with images of your younger self? do you have a favorite?


    Episode 68 • Peres-Troika Mar 10, 2024
    Show notes

    It’s an xlent xlerated xtralarge xtravaganza as Gabe and Jeff hack and slash their way to the bottom of the Prodigious Mailbag™, which features a slew of emails penned by celebrities under the pseudonym “Alan Peres.” Also discussed: cameras of ’55, cameras of ’24, Dune 2, SB2, SL3, FP4, HP5, Number Six and Zippora Seven! Tune in as we run the numbers!

    Cameras in Focus 1955:

    Olympus Wide

    Rolleiflex 2.8D

    the Nikon SP was in development (which prompts a reprise of Jeff’s astonishing SP acquisition story)

    Pentaflex

    Graflex Stereo Graphic

    a 1955 survey of 35mm cameras by price range

    Jeff briefly acquired an Asahi Pentax SB2, rare variant of the H3/S3 sold only on Japanese military bases… but it was broken, so back it went

    Gabe launches the Under $40 Camera Challenge!

    The soon-come Pentax film compact camera will be a half-frame model with zone focusing

    For the third straight time, Leica reports record revenue, plus the new SL3 is out

    Gabe rhapsodizes about the monstrous Gowlandflex

    Dave Tada picked Gabe up a coveted Nikkor 28mm f2.8…

    …but he still yearns for an ugly black Nikon F

    Dune 2 was shot on a $50 Helios-44!

    Nikon is buying RED

    Jeff watched the great Yu Tsai in action at the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue 60th anniversary shoot in Fort Lauderdale

    We go XL to empty out the Prodigious Mailbag™

    Our IDOC Discord channel is hoppin’! Join us!


    Episode 67 • Your Extra Time and Your Kiss Feb 19, 2024
    Show notes

    “Pablo Larraín, the film’s Chilean director, felt [Jackie] Kennedy’s love of beauty was so integral to her character that he requested [Natalie] Portman utter ‘I love beauty’ at some point during the shooting of every scene.” This is absurd, but not as absurd as Episode № 67 of I Dream of Cameras, “Your Extra Time and Your Kiss,” in which we discuss cameras called Beauty and Kiss and Super. Tune in for all the mayhem!

    Jeff made yet another math error! 64 is 2 to the fifth

    Gabe presents… Cameras in Focus, 1956:

    Canon VT

    Pentacon FB / Contax FB

    Mamiyaflex Automat BII

    Beauty 35 Super(“I love beauty”)

    Beier Precisa IIA

    Bolta Photavit 36

    Duplex Super 120

    Flexora III

    Kodak Signet 40

    original Leica MP

    Jeff snagged a Canon EOS New Kiss Panorama (a.k.a. Rebel G, a.k.a. Rebel 500N) for $14.50 and gave it to his brother Steven

    After much equivocation, and after handling the lens at B&H, he concluded he does not need the extravagantly-priced 30mm for the Hasselblad XPan

    Gabe did an all-film photo shoot with Claire Hinkley during the recent L.A. monsoon

    Also shot Kylie Silkman and her sister Danica with the stunning Helios-44 lens

    Jason Schneider's books on camera collecting are amazing

    Perplexity.ai is a useful tool for camera comparisons

    We will try to chat with y’all on Discord - check the #idoc-podcast channel under Sunny 16

    Don Goldberg at DAG helped Gabe fix the broken strap guard on his Leica M6 TTL

    And finally, a deep dive into our Prodigious Mailbag™!


    Episode 66 • To the Bathyscaphe! Feb 03, 2024
    Show notes

    It’s a voyage to the bottom of the Prodigious Mailbag™ on our Smash Hit Podcast™, but before that there’s talk of the year in photography 1957, the revived Southern California camera show, Jeff’s trip to the Caribbean with a sexy Swede and also his girlfriend, eBay execs sending pig fetuses to their critics, and so much more!

    Jeff made yet another major math error! 64 is 2 cubed

    Sorry, but Parenting Hell is not a smash hit podcast

    Gabe presents The Year in Focus 1957:

    Nikon SP

    Ilford Sportsman

    Hasselblad 500C

    Kodak Retina Reflex

    Concava Tessina watch camera TLR

    Leica M2 (for real) which when new went for $276, or $2,884.37 in today’s dollars

    Arsenal Salyut

    Asahi came out with the original Pentax

    Olympus Wide E

    Gabe went to the new Huntington Park camera show (very exciting) and nearly bought a Contax T

    Jeff visited 5R Photo Lab in New York and met proprietor Alec

    A trip to St. Barth’s, French West Indies occasioned the return of the XPan, and a love affair was reignited

    Jeff shot with both Portra 400 and 160… and liked 160 better!

    Gabe visited Jeff and P in NYC, went to B&H Photo, bought nothing…

    …but then ordered an Exa 1B and a Helios-44 lens

    Mint unveiled their coming-soon Rollei 35AF — apparently anyone can license the name “Rollei” for a buck fifty — but who needs this thing?

    A bunch of eBay execs were creepy criminals

    Jeff got a cool Minox film slitter from camerhack.it

    Check out RitchieCam, a camera app for iPhone with an XPan emulation mode

    A dive so deep into our Prodigious Mailbag™ that it requires a bathyscaphe

    Gabe wants to hear about online photography websites you love - blogs, magazines, whatever


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