Episode 94 • All Floral Wallpaper and Joy
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 film
Jeff 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”!
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 this
Gabe rails at eBay sellers who say “make offer” but don't want an offer
also, when is the asking price too high? for straps, thumb drives, Alpa strap lugs...?
Jeff openly derides absurd packfilm prices
Gabe rhapsodizes about OC Camera in Laguna Hills
we both love Sissi Lu's recent photo shoot with her mom
our trusty dusty camera repair guy replaced the focusing screen in Gabe’s Rolleiflex 2.8E, and the results are glorious
the Prodigious Mailbag™ includes an unexpected eyewitness update on Jeff's Alpa 10s half-cookie
Gabe will be at the LA Camera Expo this Sunday, August 17th
our designer (and award-winning photographer) Keith Greenstein is back on Instagram
check out The Darkroom Rumour, The Darkroom’s amazing new streaming site for photo documentaries
and let's get Debbie Gibson to record a vocal version of our theme song with composer Fred Coury for the 100th episode!