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