Episode 97 • La De Da, La De Da

About this episode

The hosts discuss various camera technologies and experiences at a camera show in Los Angeles.

More like L.A. De Da, because both hosts are together in the City of Angels: scoring sibling Olympi at a camera show, talking “new” Kodak film stocks with tasty typography, and shooting the works with a half-frame Swiss, a square-frame German and an American GOOSE. Tune in - it'll change your wife! this episode is dedicated to the memory of the great photographer Diane Keaton our second bad review has utterly vanished! Jeff’s results with the half-cookie Alpa 10s were delightful... shooting with the Polaroid GOOSE was a total kick... and the square-frame Zeiss Ikon Taxona - two-thirds of a cookie! - is a fun alternative to the elusive Mamiya Sketch at the wondrous L.A. Camera Expo , Gabe snapped up an Olympus 35RC , while Jeff went for big brother 35SPn , a rarer version of the 35SP with better typography Chad GPT misled us again! he made Jeff buy a Kilfitt Makro-Kilar in Exakta mount, insisting it was Alpa Kodacolor returns - or does it? once again, all we care about is good typography! how embarrassing: Jeff’s nemesis has entered the world of fashion we had a blast at the Bike Shed complex in DTLA’s Arts District we actually empty the Prodigious Mailbag™ for a change and…

People in this episode

Hosts: Jeff Greenstein, Gabe Sachs

Topics covered

• camera technology
• photography
• film stocks
• camera reviews
• Los Angeles
• Olympics
• typography

Keywords

• Kodak
• film
• photography
• camera show
• Olympus
• Zeiss
• Alpa
• Polaroid
• DTLA

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Kodak film, Alpa 10s, Polaroid GOOSE, Zeiss Ikon Taxona, Olympus 35RC, 35SPn, Kilfitt Makro-Kilar

Places: L.A. Camera Expo, Bike Shed, DTLA, Arts District

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