Episode 95 • Swiss Miss
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 equipment 
- Jeff 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 robot 
- we urge you to check out the Cameradactyl Master System from mad scientist Ethan Moses 
- Gabe is back in the hunt for camera bags - his new obsession is the sexy, stylish and super-expensive Bleu de Chauffe 
- meanwhile, Jeff’s Strand Bookstore messenger bag is dirt cheap! 
- we both flipped for Sissi Lu’s new googly-eyed hang-tag lens cloth 
- Jeff 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™