Episode 66 • To the Bathyscaphe!

I Dream of Cameras

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